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state, a beautiful groined passage, leading to the chapel, and 
groined dining-room, of the date 1301-1307. The chapel contains 
the original Altar slab with five crosses. The chief part of the 
Castle was the work of the Wykehams, 1407, and the latest 
additions about 1554 of the Fiennes. It issurrounded by a moat, 
crossed by a two-arched bridge into a gate tower and contiguous 
buildings of the 15th century, A very fine hall is entered from 
the Porch, 54 feet by 26 feet, with an elegant plaster ceiling with 
15 pendants ; the room over the same has even a more elaborate 
ceiling, and fine fire-places are in both. Upa steep winding stair 
is the Council Chamber, with some ancient glass in the windows, 
where the original plot was hatched to curb the arbitrary policy 
of King Charles I. before the meeting of the Long Parliament in 
1€41. Clarendon, in his History of the Rebellion, writes of the 
then owner of Broughton Castle, the second Baron and first 
Viscount Saye and Sele, that ‘‘ he had the deepest hand in all the 
evils that befel the unhappy kingdom,” while Whitelock, the 
Puritan historian, considers him a man “ of great parts, wisdom 
and integrity.” The Castle in its present condition makes a 
delightful residence, and has the good fortune of possessing 
occupants in Lord and Lady Algernon Gordon-Lennox who 
thoroughly appreciate its ancient character and will not restore 
away all its quaint and interesting peculiarities. Most hearty 
thanks were tendered to them for the kindly reception before 
taking leave, and then the brakes were again mounted for a six- 
mile drive to Compton Wynyates, 
The Battle of Edge Hill was fought in 1642, three miles from 
this beautiful old Mansion, which belongs to the Marquess of 
Northampton. Built in the reign of Henry VIII. by Sir William 
Compton, its chimneys, all different in structure, are said to 
have been brought entire from Fulbrook Castle, pulled down by 
Royal permission. It is delightfully situated in a deep valley 
with a small church close by. ‘The moat is mostly filled up. It 
is built of red brick, and the south-front contains an old project- 

