HAREWOOD 

 . . HOUSE, 



YORttS, 



THE SEAT 



Or TMt 



EARL OF HAREWOOD.i 



TH the H.irl 



of I! !. -t.indin^ in ..n 



t-le.atrd 'ituation in the r<>- 

 mantic vallev of the Wharfe. 

 lux b-.it "iii- rival "t it 

 kinJ in Yorkshire, that cuinty s<> well 

 stored with the mansions of the great. That rival < 

 Howard; hut there -.lull be no a 1 , temp? to appraise their various 

 merits lu-u . H _:eat and palatial, both ii"ble an.i 



dignified. The aspect .t H.u. .\.HK! is architecturally ver> 

 impo-ing, and beautiful alike in situation and surroundings, 

 but. like Blenheim. Chatxwi.rth. Kedlestn. .md many <-tlu-r 

 t houses, it ix ii .t to tv judged by ordinary domestic 



THb FIRST lERRACb. LOOMV. NuRTH. 



Man 'ardx It wa- built in the eighteenth 

 century , and \\ax consi.Vrahly altered 

 in the middle ..t the imu-teenth; but 

 there had I'een an older ln-uxr n the 

 spot, around wlmh many interest-* had 

 cvntred. There luid. in ta.t, been t\\o 



Hreat dwell n^-placcx l. n-. one beiny Mai. \\ o ..I (.a-tle. of \\ : 

 the ^rey ruin xtaiidx on hi^h ^lound \\itlnn Ha:eoKl I'aik, 

 .mi mandinj; a line view "t the \all.-\.\Mtli Kumbald'x V 

 at^iM- llkley in the baik^round. It wax tlie aiuu-nt seat o| the 

 , but \\as innxiderably altered and brou-ht t > li.mpletiou 

 by Sir Wiliia-n de Aldhur^h, \v h in.irned tin- heiu^x . t that 

 familv, and \\lxe shield of ainix, with the in.. a,, \ .it s.il b- 



sal." ma\ be -,-, n user a 

 wm.loA above the main 

 intiaiuv. The plan of the 



xtion-hol.1 was quadrangular, 



with angle towerx, tlie ^reat 

 hall being on the west side 

 and the entrance on the <-at. 

 The poitcullix room and a 

 . e lor the portiiillix itxi-li 

 still traceable in the 

 eiittaiue tower, and tl:e ch ip I 

 h.ix sonu- ve.y inter, xtin: 

 teaturex. I he I Ttu--x was 

 dismantled probabl) during 

 (.i\il War. and now the 

 clad remains a e very pictu- 

 resque, making the neighNiur- 

 IUH..I the haunt ot artists. 



Harew.MKl House more 

 directly t nun ion 



known as (iawthorpe Hall, 

 which xto.l by t 1 ' the 



lake NO me aooyJs. south ..t the 

 present mansion. Here livrd 

 the gri-at Yorkshire Imux- "i 

 i , ne, and here was horn 



the fanvuis t-hi- ' ] 

 the King's Bench who, m the 

 reign ot HI-IK . l\ .. .inmitted 

 Prince Hal to pri-on. Although 

 there is reason to know that 

 Hrnn V. di.: t!iat 



.-lemen.y which Shakesp 

 attributes to him, the put'ire 

 of it will live in literature : 



You -li'l oituiilil nir : 

 1 ..i which I <lo commit into 



.-.ir hun.l 

 The un*Uin'l word tht you 



have tuol to hcr . 

 With thu rmirtiilirim-- that 



yiu u M- tbr me 

 With the like bol<l jut. ud 



nn|.ir;il cpirit 

 \ *.m hvc ilniir 'Kiat mr." 



After th ' . nescame 



the Wentworths, and the . 

 Lord btrafford (KCisionally 

 mad.' tl)is his home H i-.irly life, 



