. Vanishing England . 176 VANISHING ENGLAND intervention of Queen Elizabeth at the baptism of theson of this marriage. The Comptons fought bravely forthe King in the Civil War. Their house was captured bythe enemy, and besieged by James Compton, Earl ofNorthampton, and the story of the fighting about thehouse abounds in interest, but cannot be related building was much battered by the siege and byCromwells soldiers, who plundered the house, killed thedeer in the park, defaced the monuments in the church,and wrought much mischief. Since the eighteenth-century disaster to the family it
. Vanishing England . 176 VANISHING ENGLAND intervention of Queen Elizabeth at the baptism of theson of this marriage. The Comptons fought bravely forthe King in the Civil War. Their house was captured bythe enemy, and besieged by James Compton, Earl ofNorthampton, and the story of the fighting about thehouse abounds in interest, but cannot be related building was much battered by the siege and byCromwells soldiers, who plundered the house, killed thedeer in the park, defaced the monuments in the church,and wrought much mischief. Since the eighteenth-century disaster to the family it has been restored, and. Window-catch, Brockhall, Northants remains to this day one of the most charming homes inEngland. The greatest advantages men have by riches are togive, to build, to plant, and make pleasant scenes. Sowrote Sir William Temple, diplomatist, philosopher, andtrue garden-lover. And many of the gentlemen of Eng-land seem to have been of the same mind, if we mayjudge from the number of delightful old country-housesset amid pleasant scenes that time and war and fire havespared to us. Macaulay draws a very unflattering pictureof the old country squire, as of the parson. His untruthsconcerning the latter I have endeavoured to expose inanother The manor-houses themselves declare 1 Old-time Parson, by P. H. Ditchfield, 1908. OLD MANSIONS 177 the historians strictures to be unfounded. Is it possiblethat men so ignorant and crude could have built forthemselves residences bearing evidence of such goodtaste, so full of grace and charm, and surrounded by suchrare blendings of art and nature as
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