. Charterhouse: old and new. inwinter, and proceed down Cloisters, was enoughto turn a small boys hair white. Imaginationpictured the whole band of outraged and defunctmonks rushing out upon the tremulous urchin,and suffocating him with their canvas robes andcowls. I verily believe that not a single Gown-boy below the under fifth form ever went byMiddle Briers on such nights except at a vigor-ous trot. One upper-form boy with anotherboy standing on his shoulders, draped, as itseemed to me, in a long black gown, andwearing a kind of cowl over his head, onceemerged from Middle Briers after chape
. Charterhouse: old and new. inwinter, and proceed down Cloisters, was enoughto turn a small boys hair white. Imaginationpictured the whole band of outraged and defunctmonks rushing out upon the tremulous urchin,and suffocating him with their canvas robes andcowls. I verily believe that not a single Gown-boy below the under fifth form ever went byMiddle Briers on such nights except at a vigor-ous trot. One upper-form boy with anotherboy standing on his shoulders, draped, as itseemed to me, in a long black gown, andwearing a kind of cowl over his head, onceemerged from Middle Briers after chapel on aSaturday night in winter as I passed alone downcloisters; but I was equal to the occasion, hitthe figure in the region of the diaphragm, andbolted for my dear life to the welcome sanctuaryof my House. The perpetrator of this practicaljoke remained as enigmatical as the Cock LaneGhost. It was only an upper-form boy whocould have made himself so tall, for the figurenearly touched the roof of the cloister. OLD AND NEW 21. CHAPTER IIIHISTORICAL CHARTERHOUSE [FTER the dissolution of theMonastery, Charterhouse remainedunoccupied, though used as astorehouse for regal tents andpavilions, until 1545, when itwas granted to Sir Edward North, a dis-tinguished lawyer and a Privy Councillor. Hepulled down the monks cells and convertedthem into gardens; built many private rooms,and made considerable improvements. As hewas one of the first to declare for Queen Mary,he was raised to the peerage with the title ofLord North. While Charterhouse was in hispossession, Queen Elizabeth paid him a visit,and it was the first house in which she slept asQueen after leaving Hatfield. Her visit lastedfive days, and three years later, when his lord-ship was in bad odour, she again held court 22 CHARTERHOUSE there. The peers son, Roger, sold part ofthe place to the Duke of Norfolk in 1565 for^^2500, and from that time the present HowardHouse assumed shape. It was certainly a grandducal residence. The pr
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