. Memoirs of the Verney family . tlie ghosts in a still sadderfashion than his ancestor. An old man used todescribe, within living memory, how, as a boy offourteen, he liad • seen the old lord a lookin out ofa ?svindow, and a beckiMiiu to me. The housewas perfectly bare. Ijut the boy and a neighbour got VOL. I. ? C 18 VERNEY DUKIXG THE CIVIL AVAR liiia a table, a clirThe secret of liispoor people atliis creditorsit, and he re-for a month,tates had beendied soon and childless,niece and heir-managh,pulledtwo-thirds ofing, but stillhouse stand-made a r>a-in right of herence, and seemsc
. Memoirs of the Verney family . tlie ghosts in a still sadderfashion than his ancestor. An old man used todescribe, within living memory, how, as a boy offourteen, he liad • seen the old lord a lookin out ofa ?svindow, and a beckiMiiu to me. The housewas perfectly bare. Ijut the boy and a neighbour got VOL. I. ? C 18 VERNEY DUKIXG THE CIVIL AVAR liiia a table, a clirThe secret of liispoor people atliis creditorsit, and he re-for a month,tates had beendied soon and childless,niece and heir-managh,pulledtwo-thirds ofing, but stillhouse stand-made a r>a-in right of herence, and seemscheerful plea-at a villa nearremained awith lier theout en ijiic- ir. and some food, and later a bed. presence was carefully kept by theClaydon, lestshould hear ofmained hiddenHalf his es-sold. and heafter, forlornin 1792. Hisess. Lady Fer-down nearlyhis new build-left a largeing ; .she wasroness by Pitt,borough iutlu-to have lived ; shespinster, andold race diedihviillcm 18] 0. , , ? ??ci ?i. ,t -a 19 CHAPTER II. THE MAXOIiS AND CHURCHES OF THE FOUR CLAYDONS. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-trees shade,Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering in his narrow cell for ever laid,The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.—Gkav. The estate now comprises the chief part of the manorsof tlie four Ciaydons, :\Iidclel, Est, Botyl, and Steppel,as they are termed in the old deeds, but it was onlygradually that the Yerneys obtained possession ofthem, parting sometimes with land in other parts ofBucks and the adjoining counties of Oxford and Herts—Fleet j\Iarston near Aylesbury, Penley near Tring,&c.—to consolidate their property. The home chapel of Middle Claydon, which ismuch the oldest and the smallest of the three, stands?within a few yards of the house, with the priestsdoor at the top of a flight of stone steps over-shadowed by yew trees, close to the library was during the long lease of 1<)0 years granted bythe Yerneys to the
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