. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . ; thepiece sometimes named first in lists of old plate ; the dividingmark between the high and low table. And if one may judge ofthe worth of salt by the depth of the receptacle in the top, it wasat that time remarkably precious, and a very little must have beenmade to go a long way. The third door from the Hall leads to what was the butteryin the east wing. This room was of old given up to guard-rooms, cellars, and a dungeon, with sleeping-rooms for soldiers,or loafers overhead. No windows in the lower rooms lookedoutwards, and the faca
. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . ; thepiece sometimes named first in lists of old plate ; the dividingmark between the high and low table. And if one may judge ofthe worth of salt by the depth of the receptacle in the top, it wasat that time remarkably precious, and a very little must have beenmade to go a long way. The third door from the Hall leads to what was the butteryin the east wing. This room was of old given up to guard-rooms, cellars, and a dungeon, with sleeping-rooms for soldiers,or loafers overhead. No windows in the lower rooms lookedoutwards, and the facade then was stern, unbroken, and devoidof any beauty. In more recent times it was used for farm pur-poses. Then the present Earl took it in hand, built a porch,inserted lower windows, and sufficiently modernised and fur-nished it to make it a dower-house for his mother, the latecountess dowager. And all praise is due to the way in whichthe work has been done. Several delightful rooms, includingDrawing-room and Morning-room, have been fitted up ; 8q go Cotebele bat-haunted lumber-rooms or apple-stores have been turned intobedrooms, even up to the top of the guard tower; and yet allthis has been effected with hardly any interference with theoriginal plan. The staircase has been formed by stealing cornersfrom two rooms, above and below, and then hiding the theft byoak wainscoting. What was but lately a cellar or cider-press-room, or something of that sort, is now a fascinating library, atthe end of the wing. And yet not at the very end, for, on lifting a curtain, behold !a low granite doorway reveals and leads into the dungeon. Abolt is placed inside the door; so it may have been a refuge aswell. Whether the one or the other, the only source of light isa tiny window far up in the wall, with a long narrow shaftleading therefrom and passing through the vaulted roof of thecell. But now, times are so changed that, instead of inspiringprisoners or fugitives with gloomy, despera
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