ARLEY HALL, 

 CHESHIRE. 



AII.I'V I I M.I. is a mansion which has many 

 claims to the delighted appreciation of 

 Knglishmcn. It is a great and dignified 

 house standing in superb and stately 

 gardens. Upon it have been lavished all the love 

 and care that those who have possessed it could 

 w. Their thought in the fashioning of it and 

 their judicious planning, like their sustained watchful- 

 ness in the maintenance of it, arc revealed in every 

 part and detail of the structure and its surrounding. 

 Upon these broad Cheshire acres have lived their 

 since first the hunter's horn resounded in the 

 r, and their latest descendants have retained 

 the tastes and pursued the avocations () f those who 

 have gone In-fore. All these are things that appeal 

 to us with irresistible f'asiiiution, and, though it is 

 at once apparent that the house is not itself old, 

 we know that without its history and the environ- 

 ment of tradition it could never have been as we 



sec it. The mansion is an example of modern 

 Elizabethan architecture of some merit ami 

 importance, and its gardens have a subtle beauty and 

 dignified character that have often tempte.l the 

 painter's brush, though we question whether they 

 have ever been so finely represented as in the pictures 

 we now publish. 



Before we s|x.*ak of Arley as it stands, let us 

 go back to its beginning, so that we may gain some 

 true of the character and memories of the pl.uc. 

 Remembering that it is located not far from the 

 marches of Wales, it is interesting to know that the 

 manor of Aston juxta Hud worth, within the bounds 

 of which the house stands, was anciently held of John, 

 Constable <if Chester, by the service <>f rendennn a 

 Welsh lance on each St. Bartholomew's Day. Here 

 lived "temp. Will. Cone]." a certain Odard, from 

 whom desi ended Adam de Dutton, and this Adam 

 acquired in marriage with the daughter of Roger 



AKLLY HM.L. 



