2 26 DERBY CEILINGS. 



with the description handed down, it is needless to say he was 

 amply repaid for his journey." 



The Mercury of April 3, 1872, also alludes to these ceilings. 

 '• Mr. Storer will forgive us for calling attention to the fact that 

 his house in the Corn Market (whose painted ceilings may vie 

 with those of Chatsworth) once rendered accommodation to 

 the ladies who followed the fortune of ' Prince Charlie.' Here 

 stayed Lady Ogilvie, Mrs. Murray, and others, who enjoyed them- 

 selves right loyally during the campaign, and were at last taken 

 prisoners in their ball dresses, after the battle of Culloden, as 

 they were proceeding to celebrate the defeat of the Duke upon 

 the false intelligence brought in by a spy." 



J«dL 



24FEB.1915 



BEMROSE AND SONS, PRINTERS, LONDON AND DERBY. 



