Memorials of old Northamptonshire . erable for aPrinces Court. And for strength, both offensive & defensive, she wasnott long since well provided w^ Towers, Bulwarkes, andKeeps, for Soldiers to keep in; more especially, one roundmounted, large, & strong on the right hand of the Gate-house, purposely built by a famous Duke, for those martiallmen to play their Peeces over. Her stately Hall I found spacious, large, and answerableto the other Prince-like Roomes, but drooping and desolatefor that there was the Altar, where that great queens headwas sacrificd; as all the rest of those precious sweet
Memorials of old Northamptonshire . erable for aPrinces Court. And for strength, both offensive & defensive, she wasnott long since well provided w^ Towers, Bulwarkes, andKeeps, for Soldiers to keep in; more especially, one roundmounted, large, & strong on the right hand of the Gate-house, purposely built by a famous Duke, for those martiallmen to play their Peeces over. Her stately Hall I found spacious, large, and answerableto the other Prince-like Roomes, but drooping and desolatefor that there was the Altar, where that great queens headwas sacrificd; as all the rest of those precious sweetBuildings doe sympathise, decay, fall, perish, and goewracke; for that vnluckie and fatall blow. Thus the castle lingered on until the eighteenth century,when its last remains were used up for the purposeof repairing the navigation of the Nene. Thus removed,the shorn and parcelled castle of Fotheringhay escapedthe notice of the antiquary, who would have probably notedits destruction if it had been less gradual. M. Tower axd Moat, Woodcroft. 18; DRAYTON. ^N a valley some two miles from Thrapston, betweenthe woodlands of Rockingham Forest and the valeof the Nene, lies Drayton House, in many ways themost remarkable and the most fascinating of the greathouses of Northamptonshire. Although no part of thepresent building can certainly be dated before Edward I.,there has been on this site a great residence since thedays of Saxon England. Henry, Earl of Peterborough,one of the most distinguished of its owners, thus affec-tionately writes of it in his famous family history knownas Hal steads Genealogies:— The Manor of Drayton being one of the fairest and most Noble ofthe County wherein it lies, both for its Commodities, Situation, and theRoyalties belonging thereunto was in the days of those Kings that didprecede the Conquest among the possessions of one Oswinus, a famousSaxon. But upon the distribution of the lands acquired by King Williamit became part of the estate of Au
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