. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . oing remarks to give an accur-ate, if somewhat sketchy, account of the chief objects of interestin the house, but I feel that my pen is incompetent to describeKnole as it should be described ; and yet it is not difficult toallow the mind to wander, and to attempt to repeople thepast with the many celebrated men who have been and Bourchiers private chapels could surely tell ussomething more than we already know of their lives andprayers ; while the old Banqueting Hall must have witnessedmany a scene of feasting and revelry
. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . oing remarks to give an accur-ate, if somewhat sketchy, account of the chief objects of interestin the house, but I feel that my pen is incompetent to describeKnole as it should be described ; and yet it is not difficult toallow the mind to wander, and to attempt to repeople thepast with the many celebrated men who have been and Bourchiers private chapels could surely tell ussomething more than we already know of their lives andprayers ; while the old Banqueting Hall must have witnessedmany a scene of feasting and revelry on the occasion of a royalvisit. It was here Sir Thomas More spent part of his boyhoodas page in the household of Archbishop Moreton. Here musthave come Leicester and Burleigh, and many a noble at theCourt of Queen Elizabeth. Here also Dryden, DUrfey, and Ed-mund Waller were guests ; while only a little more than a cent-ury ago Sir Joshua Reynolds painted at Knole several of thepictures still in the house for his friend, the Duke of Dorset. Cotebele 55. TT— /^ [eudaL l\\^ /|o^E BY A. H. MALAN AMONG the stately homes of Cornwall —whether remark-able for age or architecture, or (as more often) for beau-tiful grounds and semi-tropical gardens redeeming bare,barrack-like buildings — there is certainly nothing quite like Cote-hele. Situated just west of the Tamar, it is unique of its kind,and has a charm all its own. Inside and out it so speaks ofantiquity and so carries back the mind to the past that, weresome armoured knight suddenly to present himself in all hisbravery, it would not seem a very strange thing ; though thecorrect method of saluting him would doubtless be rather a start-ling problem. The connection of the Edgcumbe family with this mansionplace opens with romance. It was in the middle of the four-teenth century. Hillaria de Cotehele had become an heiressunder age, through her fathers death ; and John of Elthamclaimed her wardship, in consequence of the family a
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