. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . stavusAdolphus and Robert Devereux, almost the whole of this longcorridor appears given up to family portraits, among which areobserved these and others: Maria Audley (Mytens), in a richlyembroidered dress ; Joan Hayward, and her husband, Sir John theyounger; Catherine Howard, Lady Thynne ; also Lady LouisaCarteret, the connecting link between the Earls of Bath and thelater marquisate. The portrait of the lady in the white dresswith coloured scarf, holding a mandolin, represents Isabella Rich(daughter of Lord Holland), who made such a ma
. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . stavusAdolphus and Robert Devereux, almost the whole of this longcorridor appears given up to family portraits, among which areobserved these and others: Maria Audley (Mytens), in a richlyembroidered dress ; Joan Hayward, and her husband, Sir John theyounger; Catherine Howard, Lady Thynne ; also Lady LouisaCarteret, the connecting link between the Earls of Bath and thelater marquisate. The portrait of the lady in the white dresswith coloured scarf, holding a mandolin, represents Isabella Rich(daughter of Lord Holland), who made such a matrimonial mud-dle by marrying Sir James Thynne, when she might better havemarried Lord Thurles (afterwards Lord Ormonde), or better stillhave remained single; preferring, as she did, an unfettered lifewith the Court at Oxford, where she could attend Balliol Chapelairily dressed as an angel, play practical jokes on the dons, andcomport herself generally with more giddiness than grace. Herhusband, Sir James, entertained Charles 11., in 1663, at THE HALL, LONQLEAT, SHOWING SCREEN WITH CARVED SHIELDS 213 2I4 Xonoleat Why John Granville took the title from Bath is not Weymouth may have done so partly because of his ances-tor, through his mother, and partly because Longleat is nearBath. The title Earl Granville was revived in a brother of a Duke of Sutherland, as a descendantof Jane Gower, daughter of JohnGranville, Earl of Bath. TheCarteret title became mergedin the Granville title, and wasrevived in Henry Frederick,second son of Louisa, LadyWeymouth. At the east end of this cor-ridor is the ante-Library, com-municating, to right, with theGreen Library, to left with theRed ; and the homeliness ofLongleat is well exemplified inboth. In the Green Library,for example, are all four earliest editions of Shakespeare ; anearly black-letter Chaucer (whose first editor was WilliamThynne, uncle to the builder) ; a folio edition of DiogenesLaertius, with a sentence on
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