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She resided at all her castles in turn, changing from one to 

 another in great state in her coach and six, followed by a train of 

 servants ; and at each place of residence the local clergyman 

 attended daily as her chaplain. Brougham Castle is always 

 mentioned in her journal with especial reverence, and the 

 chamber in which she slept, as " the chamber in which my noble 

 Father was born, and my beloved Mother died." 



In the voluminous manuscript memorial of her life, and in her 

 day-book, she gives the events of every day of her hfe, minutely 

 recorded in the wordy but dignified style of the period. I will 

 here give a few entries : — -"And the 23rd day of the said April, 

 165 1, I was present at the laying of the first foundation stone of 

 my Hospital or Alms House here in Appleby Town, for which I 

 purchased land, viz., the Manor of Brougham, the fourth day of 

 February following, and the Lands called St. Nicholas near 

 Appleby the 29th day of December, 1652, which Almshouse was 

 quite finished and the Mother and twelve Sisters in it in January 

 and March, 1653. 



"And this summer, 165 1, Major General Thomas Harrison 

 came hither with his forces, for then the warr was Hott in Scotland, 

 so as then many places in Westmorland, and especially my castle 

 of Appleby, was full of soldiers, who lay here a great part of the 

 Summer ; but I thank God I received no harm or Damage by 

 them nor by the King or his party who that August came into 

 England, and within six or seven miles of Appleby Castle, though 

 they came not to it. And that Christmas I kept in Appleby 

 Castle, as I had done the Christmas before at Skipton. 



" And in this settled aboad of mine in these ancient Houses of 

 mine Inheritance, .\ppleby Castle and Brougham Castle in West- 

 moreland, and Skipton Castle or House in Craven, I do more and 

 more fall in love with the contentment and Inocent pleasures of a 

 Country Life, which humor of mine I do wish with all my heart 

 (if it be the will of .Almighty God), may be confer'd on my 

 Posterity, that are to be secured me in these Places, for a wise 

 body ought to make their own home the Place of Self Fruition 

 and the comfortable part of their Life ; but this must be left to a 



