2i8 Sir Charles Knight ley. 



wet, a white frost followed every morning, and we 

 went out and returned home about two o'clock 

 in the afternoon, having accounted for a brace of 

 foxes, and given our horses plenty to do, and 

 this sport continued through the month." 



Sir Charles was his own steward, attending 

 to the wants of his tenants whom he was very 

 fond of meeting upon their land early in the 

 morning. The estate being chiefly grass he 

 paid the greatest attention to the drinking-places. 

 Kindness to the poor has long been a great 

 characteristic of the Knightleys. Sir Charles 

 had a fixed morning for the aged poor to receive 

 alms, as he had a dread of their going to the 

 workhouse. Sir Charles Knightley lived in the 

 " Good old times " and was my " Grand old Man." 



I will conclude this short memoir with one more 

 story. In the old house at Fawsley there was a 

 room which was reputed to be haunted, it is now 

 pulled down. A good many years ago a large 

 party had been invited there to meet the Bishop. 

 None of the lady guests would sleep in the 

 haunted room ; it was therefore arranged that 

 the Bishop, who was not aware of the ghost, 

 should occupy it. All the rest of the party knew 

 of the ghost, and the arrival of his lordship at the 

 breakfast table was awaited with considerable 



