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Title: The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts
Year: 1834 (1830s)
Authors: Brayley, E. W. (Edward Wedlake), 1773-1854
Subjects: England -- Antiquities England -- Architecture England -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, Chidley
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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, who married Charles Holt, her cousin,descended from the first Robert. Her grandson wasthe Robert Holt, father to Dorothy Entwisle beforenamed, at whose marriage* the events took placewhich, if the following tradition is to be credited,were the forerunners of a most strange and unex-pected developement. In the year 1640, nine years before the date ofour story, Robert Holt abandoned Stubley for thewarmer and more fertile situation of Castleton, abouta mile south from Rochdale. Castleton was prin-cipally abbey-land, belonging to the house of Stanlaw.Part of this township, the hamlet of Marland orMereland, was, at the dissolution of monasteries,granted to the Radcliffs, of Langley, and sold byHenry Radcliff to Charles Holt, who married hiscousin, Mary Holt, of Stubley, and was grandfatherto Robert, who left Stubley for this place, as noticedabove. CLEGG HALL.
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Is there no exorcist Beguiles the truer office of mine eyes 1Is t real that I see 1—Shakespeare. To Clegg Hall, or rather what was once the site ofthat ancient house, tradition points through the dimvista of past ages, as the scene of an unnatural andcruel tragedy. Not that this picturesque and stately pile, with its gable and zigzag terminations, the sub-ject of our present engraving, was the very placewhere the murder was perpetrated ; but a low, dark,and wooden-walled tenement, such as our forefatherswere wont to construct in times anterior to the Tudor* Her marriage gift was £500., nineteen cows, and a bull,—a magnificent portion in those days. 154 THE GRAPHIC AND HISTORICAL ILLUSTRATOR. ages. The present building-, with its little porch,quaint and grotesque, its balustrade and balconyabove, and the points and pediments on the four sides,is evidently the coinage of some more modern brain,—peradventure in King Jamess days. Not unlike thecharacter of that learned monarch and

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