8 THE BROCIvLESBY HOUNDS. 



" Tlie Hall is a very fine, stately building, built in the year 1G03, when the 

 Pelhams first came into the country out of Kent, as I remember (where there 

 is a knightly fomily of the same name). The hall is leaded upon the top, and 

 most excellently furnished with all manner of rich goods and pictures within, of 

 excellent painting. There are two carved chimneypieces of wood, of the finest 

 workmanship that ever I saw. One represents Diogenes in his tub, speaking 

 to Alexander, with trees, landscape, etc., all the sayd work with verses in golden 

 letter underneath. 



*' Here is also very fine gardens, with groves, pleasure-houses, etc., and all 

 manner of fruit. Not far from this town was a place called Newsora, where 

 formerly stood a famous jiriory with several houses about it, but now there is not 

 so much as one stone above another to be seen, all to be pulled down and 

 squandered, and brought to lay the foundation of the aforesayd Hall." 



Mr. Charles Pelham sat for Grimsby in Parliament in 

 1722, and was also member for Beverley for twenty years. 

 But it is as a fox-hunter that he will be chiefly remembered, 

 and since his time the Brocklesby has always belonged to 

 a Pelham, and a Pelham has been its Master. The joint 

 mastership did not last long, and then Mr. Charles Pelham 

 took sole command till he died, full of years, in 1763. 

 Having no son, the family became extinct in the male line 

 at his death. But his sister Mary had married Francis 

 Anderson, of Manby Hall, a descendant of the Lord Chief 

 Justice of the Common Pleas in the reign of Elizabeth, and 

 their grandson succeeded to the family estate by the will 

 of his grand uncle, the second Charles Pelham. In 1794 

 he was created Baron Yarborough, and marrying Miss 

 Aufrers, of Chelsea, acquired through her a fine collection 

 of paintings and sculpture, the most celebrated item being 

 the antique bust of Niobe, brought from Rome. This 

 handsome collection was placed in a picture-gallery, 

 designed by Tatham, and built in 1807. 



Previous to his elevation to the Upper House, Mr. 

 Anderson Pelham sat for Beverley, and also for the 

 county of Lincoln, representing the latter for twenty 

 years. The handsome mausoleum, erected on the site 

 of a tumulus, from which many valuable old relies had 

 been dug, was designed by Wyatt, and consecrated by 

 Bishop Pretyman in 1794. It took seven years to build, 

 and in it is a beautiful statue of his wife, Mrs. Pelham, 



