Other famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . e, and successively LordChief Baron of the Exchequer, Lord Chief Justice of the CommonPleas, and Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal, under King Charles IL,who in 1660 created him a Baronet. This estate was bought bySir Orlando and his son John, who succeeded him, and whoseportrait is also in this room. The second Sir John, grandson ofSir Orlando, married Ursula, sole heir of Roger Matthews ofBlodwell, and representative of Athelstan, Prince of Ferolis. Hewas succeeded by his son. Sir Orlando, on whose marriage withAnne, daughter, and in her is
Other famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . e, and successively LordChief Baron of the Exchequer, Lord Chief Justice of the CommonPleas, and Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal, under King Charles IL,who in 1660 created him a Baronet. This estate was bought bySir Orlando and his son John, who succeeded him, and whoseportrait is also in this room. The second Sir John, grandson ofSir Orlando, married Ursula, sole heir of Roger Matthews ofBlodwell, and representative of Athelstan, Prince of Ferolis. Hewas succeeded by his son. Sir Orlando, on whose marriage withAnne, daughter, and in her issue sole heir of Richard Newport,second Earl of Bradford of the first creation, the Weston estatespassed into the family. (The other two portraits in the Dining-room are by Sir Peter Lely, and represent Charlotte, daughter ofSir Orlando, Lord Keeper, and wife to Sir T. Middleton of Chirk ;and Nell Gwynne.) This Lady Anne Newport was sister to thelast two Earls of Bradford of the first creation. The Newport family merits special mention, dating back to. A CORNER OF THE DRAWING-ROOM, CASTLE BROMWICH 8i 82 Caetle Broimvicb 1391, and tracing its descent to tlie Princes of Powys ; WilliamNewport, who was Sheriff of Shropshire in 1473, having marriedthe great-great-great-great-great-granddaughter of Griffith-ap-Gwenwynwyn, Prince of Powyswenwynwyn temp. Edward 1. But 1 have allowed my pen to digress, and I would show younow a beautiful little Sitting-room beyond the Dining-room. Here,again, on two sides we have the pitched-pine panelling^and onthe other tv/o, lovely tapestry — probably Aubusson, depicting Watteau scenes. On the ceiling is a circle of heavily-mouldedfruit and tlowers. Hitherto 1 have forgotten to point out theover-doors, which in every room are richly carved, and the spacebetween door and over-doors is filled with old Delft, which has avery good effect. In modern houses but too little thought isgiven to the ornamentation of doors. Now you have seen round two sides o
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