Other famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . obert de HockelesGateway, already men-tioned, he soon discov-ers the old Abbey con-cealed behind the newbuilding erected in Ital-ian style and attached tothe ancient house by Ed-ward Lord Leigh in 1720. There is a persistentrumour that at one per-iod of his existence, whichno doubt included certainprivate visits to England,the Young Pretender wasa visitor at Stoneleigh Ab-bey. Indeed, a strangercorrespondent, a clergy-man of the Church of England, writing to the owner some years ago, referred to the factas one about which there was no que
Other famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . obert de HockelesGateway, already men-tioned, he soon discov-ers the old Abbey con-cealed behind the newbuilding erected in Ital-ian style and attached tothe ancient house by Ed-ward Lord Leigh in 1720. There is a persistentrumour that at one per-iod of his existence, whichno doubt included certainprivate visits to England,the Young Pretender wasa visitor at Stoneleigh Ab-bey. Indeed, a strangercorrespondent, a clergy-man of the Church of England, writing to the owner some years ago, referred to the factas one about which there was no question : when invited to quotehis authority he was unprepared to give any, excepting that it washeld to be an acknowledged circumstance when his grandfatherwas Rector of a certain adjoining parish which the Prince is saidto have visited. Now, dim rumour from quite another sourcehas it that this same parish was at one moment the haunt ofCharles Edward at the period when he was on a visit to Stone-leigh, and that a village artist from that place was then.
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