Other famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . of lighthouse-likewinding stone staircase. Bedlam —so called fromits being the bed-place of retain-ers, brought of yore in largenumbers by dignified guests-is of the size of the Great Hall,but lower. At present it containsbooks ; old garments from Tu-dor days downwards (thoughFRANCIS wiLLouQHBY, OF woLLATON, THE the pick of the collectlou has FAMOUS NATURAL PHILOSOPHER (from THE BUST IN THE LIBRARY OF TRINITY COLLEGE, Cambridge) Deen lent Tor many years to tue PHOTO BY STEARN, CAMBRIDGE Nottingham Museum); Statebeds, unfortunately dismant
Other famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . of lighthouse-likewinding stone staircase. Bedlam —so called fromits being the bed-place of retain-ers, brought of yore in largenumbers by dignified guests-is of the size of the Great Hall,but lower. At present it containsbooks ; old garments from Tu-dor days downwards (thoughFRANCIS wiLLouQHBY, OF woLLATON, THE the pick of the collectlou has FAMOUS NATURAL PHILOSOPHER (from THE BUST IN THE LIBRARY OF TRINITY COLLEGE, Cambridge) Deen lent Tor many years to tue PHOTO BY STEARN, CAMBRIDGE Nottingham Museum); Statebeds, unfortunately dismantled ; ancient Peruvian pottery, andrelics of the natural philosopher, Francis Willoughby, the distin-guished father of our historian, her Grace of Chandos. It was the sixth Lord Middleton who, alas! in 1834, tookdown the decayed wainscot in the Hall, and in my room, coveredthe walls with mastic, and painted them. He employed SirGeoffrey Wyatt (the Destroyer) to more or less remodel theinterior of the house, and though, doubtless, general comfort was.
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