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THE HOUSE FROM THE GARDEN. 



windows and latticed pane* of the time, wainscot of oak, 

 and beautiful plaster work, li>vely Spanish embused leather, 

 and much else that is beautiful of the Stewart .1^-. 



Such was tlu- house which came to Sir James ( iraham, 

 the creator of its gardens, in 1690. He bought it, or won it 

 t the gaming table, from Alan Bellmglum. tin.- last of his 



race, "an ingcnion Nit unhappy 

 xoung nuin, v\h<> loiixmned a 



\.ist est.,: 



This (iraham of " th. 



Netlu-rbv il.ni" was. .is Ivlitte. 1 

 1. 1- M.IIIU-, a cavalier, \\lm had 

 spent a turhulcnt youth in the 

 ! ;i Army, and M 



much in tlu- Jacobite rising. He 

 stiKid hi-h in tin- Koy.il l.iviNir, 

 and MJS M.isit t >4 tin- Hiuk- 

 lntundN and Lieutenant < Win.N>r 

 |-'"iest, an.l he am.itipaned 

 J.nni s in his ili^ht t I' 

 but he m.in.i^ed t" esi.ipi- sunn- >; 

 tla- pains and pen.illies that wen- 

 unpiised "I) men less adroit, and, 

 when the in \v s<ttlement was 

 i llei ted, lie ll\ ed much .It Lex ens. 



working at the gardens he loxed. 

 e\iept that his I'aili.iment.if v 

 duties for he xv. is member !' 

 Westmoreland until 1722 took 

 him in the session to London. 

 There is reason to know that 

 (iraham kept up IIIN iortes|>ni- 



xvith Ills old .ISS.K i.ites. .nut 



Mrs. Bagot of Lixens, in a 

 charming sketih nt her home, 

 -ays: " It stones could speak, 



what secrets these walls might disjosv, what plots of 

 portentous importance they might reveal. Could we but hear 

 the talk of Grahme and his guests in tin- (iildod Parlour, as 

 the wine flowed and the t".ist was received ' I" the King 

 over the Water ' 



By the marriage oi the Jacobite colonel's only daughter, 







IBLt UAHUkN STUDY OH CHARMING til I '.I. 





