6 EARLY LIFE. 



recollection of all the details. Her own memory was 

 most perfect ; nor did the event appear to her to be 

 so very remote, for she herself perfectly remembered 

 the attempt of the Pretender in 1715 not that she 

 ever called him by that name, for she was rather a 

 Jacobite, but yet a very High Church Protestant, 

 continually fighting with her neighbour Mr Howard 

 of Corby, a most strict Papist, about transubstantia- 

 tion, which she called by a very expressive term, when 

 she referred to one of their angry discussions, which 

 Mr Howard ended by exclaiming, " It's no good your 

 denying it, Madam Brougham, for I myself have 

 crunched the bones!" meaning when he took the 

 sacramental wafer. 



She had a strong feeling for Charles II., and enter- 

 tained a high regard for her husband's cousin, Father 

 John Hudleston, who attended Charles in his last 

 moments. 



But to return to my father's marriage. My grand- 

 mother told me that he left Eton before the accession 

 of George III., and for some years travelled on the 

 Continent ; his brother John, then captain of the 

 school, going to Cambridge, as he was intended for 

 the Church. 



On my father's return to Westmorland, he fell in 

 love with his cousin, Mary Whelpdale, the last of a 

 perfectly pure Saxon race. Her father's estate, to 

 which she was sole heiress, was close to Brougham, 

 so that the alliance was all that could be wished. 

 Everything was in readiness for the nuptials the 



