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Title: More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Malan, Alfred Henry, comp
Subjects: Historic buildings Country homes Dwellings
Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's sons, London, The Pall Mall magazine
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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eppel, whogave him a passage to Italy in the Centurion, thus enabling himto study in Rome, where he purchased the fine marble busts ofRoman Emperors now in the Saloon. Sir Joshuas receipt for thepayment of the expenses he incurred is preserved. The family being staunch adherents of the Stuarts sufferedmuch for their loyalty. The Parliamentarians, during the siegeof Plymouth, unsuccessfully assaulted the house, May 1, 1644,and two summonses for its surrender are extant, one signed byLord Warwick ; but it held out until May, 164s, after whichcomes a long record of sequestrations and imprisonments inflictedon Colonel Edgcumbe by Cromwell. The Upper Garden above the house contains many beau-tiful flowering trees and shrubs, and is charming, though shornby the blizzard of its chief glory,—a grand group of cedars,—whilethe parterres on the east front (formerly the Bowling-green),embellished with statues and two picturesque stone pines, makea bright foreground to the view over the Sound.
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163 164 flDount !£&0cumbe From the house a terraced drive, two miles long, is carriedround the side of the hill. Passing through a wood, called theAmphitheatre from its shape, it emerges into the park abovethe Ruin, and enters what was the Beech Wood untilthe blizzard destroyed it. The Blizzard in the West, thatcelebrated storm of March, iSqi, an easterly hurricane combinedwith a snowfall of unexampled severity, is a kind of era in Devonand Cornwall, and events are dated from it as having occurredpreviously or subsequently. The spectacle afforded by this par-ticular wood was extraordinary : hundreds of great beeches layprostrate up the hill, their enormous roots upreared, with earthand stones adhering to them ; and weeks elapsed before the roadscould be made passable. Leaving the Deer-park by another gate, the drive now takesthe name of South Terrace, and, in wintry weather, transportsone into Italy. No cold blasts touch this favoured spot, whichfor nearly a mile is planted with

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