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grander legacy to our children and our 
children’s children. 
A winding staircase leads up to the long 
gallery which is the main feature of the 
building. Just before you reach it, you 
pass one of the secret chambers which 
were concealed behind oaken panels. The 
gallery is sixty-eight leet long by twelve 
feet broad, the roof being seventeen feet 
passes in her left hand and a sword in her 
right which pierces the world, represented as 
a globe. She has for her inscription “The 
speare of Destiny whose ruler is Knowledge.” 
On one side of the long gallery is the with¬ 
drawing room, and here there is a beautiful 
fireplace with the arms of John de Moreton 
above, who in Edward the Third’s time 
married Margaret, sister and co-heiress of 
THE COURTYARD LITTLE MORETON HALL 
high. Here, I would have you know, that 
Queen Elizabeth herself danced. It is 
almost entirely circled by windows with 
the tiniest panes, a triumph of glazier’s art, 
over old oak paneled wainscoting. At the 
west end on the wall is a figure of Fortune, 
with a wheel above her head, which is un¬ 
common 1 know ; generally she leans upon 
it. Round the wheel is her motto “ Qui 
modo scandit, corruet statim,” and on the 
panels at either side 
“ The wheele of Fortune 
Whose rule is ignorance.” 
If you glance at the other end of the gal¬ 
lery you will see another figure on the wall. 
This is Fate who holds a pair of com- 
John de Macclesfield. You can trace her 
quartering in the shield. As in all very old 
houses you pass from room to room ; there 
are no passages anywhere, and it is difficult 
nowadays when everything is contrived for 
convenience, to realize how they arranged 
the accommodation. 
There is a very small chapel with a sepa¬ 
rate entrance, with a small room on the 
north side, probably used by the priest. 
d'he kitchens and butteries are worthy of 
the house. In one is an old spice chest, 
with a drawer for every letter in the alpha¬ 
bet ; and on the shelves of the ancient dresser 
are rare old pewter dishes with the Moreton 
arms engraved thereon. On the outside 
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