. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . nt scholar and anaccomplished gentleman, described by Clarendon as a personof great courage, honour, and fidelity. When the Civil Warbroke out he was one of the most energetic supporters of theRoyal cause, and Compton Wynyates became a battle-ground ofopposing factions. The Compton family threw all their energyand wealth on the Kings side ; and when Lord Northampton ledhis well-disciplined regiment of green-coats into the held atEdgehill it contained three of his sons : a fourth shed tearsbecause he was not yet old enough to handle a pis
. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . nt scholar and anaccomplished gentleman, described by Clarendon as a personof great courage, honour, and fidelity. When the Civil Warbroke out he was one of the most energetic supporters of theRoyal cause, and Compton Wynyates became a battle-ground ofopposing factions. The Compton family threw all their energyand wealth on the Kings side ; and when Lord Northampton ledhis well-disciplined regiment of green-coats into the held atEdgehill it contained three of his sons : a fourth shed tearsbecause he was not yet old enough to handle a pistol. LordNorthampton was killed at the battle of Hopton Heath, and thereis a touching letter written at the time by his eldest son James tohis mother. This James succeeded his father as Governor of BanburyCastle, and was himself succeeded by his brother Sir William,who held it till the close of the War, and with his brother. SirCharles, made a daring but unsuccessful attempt to recover theirhome from the Parliamentarians. It had been taken in 1644 by a. 263 264 Gompton Mvmjrates party of four hundred foot and three hundred horse, that laybefore Compton Wynyates for two days, drove the park, killedall the deer, defaced the monuments in the church, and carriedoff to Banbury, besides officers and soldiers, .£5000 in money,sixty or eighty horses, four hundred sheep, one hundred andsixty head of cattle, eighteen loads of plunder, and five or sixearthen pots of money found in the fish-pond. There is a tradition that a considerable number of the Cava-liers who had been wounded in the attack remained in the housewhen it was taken ; they were said to have been concealed byLady Northampton in the roofs, which are entered by a trap-door, and were tended by her, presumably escaping without thePuritan garrison knowing anything about it. The Puritans heldthe house till the surrender of Banbury, in 1646. From this account it would appear that there was a secondcourt in front of the present h
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