BRICK UtiLL 



. 



t'nixn-ity plate to 

 Charles in \ reward 



i.OOO guineas w.is ottered 

 (or his peix. (! i. de.i.l . r alive, 



' -mell. hut tin warrant 

 tving made out inadvertently 

 .11 tin- name ot Ins brother 

 Meplie:i. t!:. \ < h.llKellor 

 successfully escaped to Fiance. 

 Alter the : -ion, he 



returned. .inJ was consecrated 

 ti> the See of Yrk, and was 

 intt-rroJ in Yotk Minster in 

 1664. Me lelt a very con- 

 1 UK- to his brother 



.hen, of Brickwall, who 

 is said to have survival 

 two attacks of the great 

 plague ot l.onJ <n in 166;. 

 With the Archbishop" 

 Stephen Proven added to the 

 Northuii) <M.IU->> the quaint 

 old manor of Brede, and 2,000 

 acrr* of land adjacent, which 

 lie purchased from the ancient 

 house of Oxenbnd^e. 



Amongst otlk-r noticeable 

 pictures at Brickwall is a full- 

 length portrait of Louise de Oiu-rouaille, I Hiclu-vs ,,f potts- 

 mouth a splendid dame, whatever lu-r morals by 

 Lely, and on the front Maircne there i> a picture, by 

 Vandyck, of Richard Weston, Lord Portland, the Lord 

 Treasurer who died in 16*4. The Hall Chamber bedroom. 

 which is hung with stamped Spanish leather, and is n -need 

 in the inventories .it least .is far back as William of Orange, 

 is an attractive room. 



It is perhaps not unnatural that the owners of this 

 quaint untroubled wilder; >ks and yc\vs should have 



been a very lon^-lived race. It is recorded of Thom.is 

 n, whose p.ruait hangs in the dining-room, the j;r<.-at- 





THE BOWLING (i 





grandfather of Colonel [Edward Frewon, the pre-ent ow ner o) 

 Brickwall, that he haJ frecjuently ^os>i ( vd with the old 

 housekeeper at Wolluton, who reiiu mix-red seeing Cromwell 

 ride up to that house after the hatile ol N.IS, hy in iC^;. 

 Mere is a link with the past not unworthy of re, or, I .it 

 this turn of the century. 



The dwellers at Brickwall have looked out, we may 

 t-e sun-, with delight upon the garden which lay before 

 them, and have expended tlu-ir labour in creating and 

 modifying its character in accordance with the t.i-!. 

 their times. They have walked in the green al 

 and spi-d their howls upon that lon^ bowling gm-n a 



1Mb BOWLINCi GHbEN TbRHACE. 





