Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-09-19

warwick CaSf1e has I 0O"n IFom
leudai times. Five times it has reverted
to OF been confiscated by the Grown,
snd been given as a bride to stay the
Loyalty Of some powerful ally of the OF.
listing sovereign. The famous Guy,
who died at Guys Cliffe in 939, was the
first Earl of Warwick. William the
Conqueror kicked ont the descendants
Of Guy and gave the Castle to Henry
warwick. fhe Castle was held by the
Newburgs and the Beauchamps, which
family they married into, for five hum
dred years. The last descendant of the
Beauchamps, Edward Plantagenet, was
accused of treason by Henry VIII.
who had been beheaded in London
Tower in 1899. The Castle remained
without an owner for forty-eight years.
1t was now given by the King to John
Dudley. Queen Mary had Dudley b.
headed for treason in 1858. The Cas-
tie now reverted to the Crown again.
Cromwell now had the Castle given to
John Rich, whose grandson married
Cromwell's daughter. The Rich family
Crown again.
The present Lord Warwick is not q
Warwick at all. He is a Grevi1le. Fulke
Greville, a schoolmate of Sir Philip
Sidney, found the Castle in ruins in
in. 1854. 1t was used as q COM,
mon Jail. Greville bought up claims
against the Castle, and finally got pos
session of the Castle itself. The Gre
| villes held Warwick Castle till 1853,
when the present Earl, George Guy
Greville (Lord Warwick), came in pos
session of it. The present Lord War
wick (so-called) has five sons and q
daughter, and as they are not stealing
castles any more in England, it will
probably stay in his family '.till a revo-
luton occurs, and he or his descend
ants are beheaded." Nine owners Of
Warwick Castle have already had their
heads cut of.
The castle wallis are six feet thick.
The servant who opens the door for two
shillings, ushers us through a long hall
of old iron armor into the great hall.
Chat" she says, pointing down tho
hall, sis the famous mammoth painting
of Charles | on horseback by Van
dyke, and this (picking up a long horn.
evidently the tooth Of a mammoth) is
the horn of the famous dun COW slain
by Guy, Earl of Warwick. Here is the
punch bowl" she says, humping a huge
iron kettle. eft holds one hundred and.
two gallons. l saw it filled and emptied
three times when the present Earl came
of age. Dat of the window there you
see the river Avon, thirty feet below,
and there is the old mill where they
ground wheat for the castle four hun
dred years. Look out there, and don't
slip, for the floor is waxed, you see."
So on we go, through great rooms
filled with more pictures and buhl furni-
ture. ''This," says the old woman, as
We entered the state bedroom, sis the bed
which Queen Anne slep on, and which
George II gave to Lord Warwick.
There's a picture of Henry VIII, by
Vandyke, landscape by Salvador Rosa,
the dead Christ bv Caracci. and -
And so we went on tor two hours.
The castle is cold and barn-like. There
is no way of heating it or lighting it.
Kerosene is unknown in this part of
England, though they are using it in
London. 1 had to use q tallow candle
in the Warwick Arms Hotel, and to
light the castle it would take a ton of
such penny dips. When l asked the
attendant for two candles he looked
amazed and said:
1--WE don't give candles, master, with
out chargin' hit hon the bill"
They say an American found a piece
of rag in his soup at the hotel the other
day, and holding it called the walters
attention to it.
"Wol, wot is it?" asked the waiter.
"a rag, sir-a common rag"
''Vel, vot if there is? You kant hex
pect velvet in a country hotel."-Cor.
Minneapolis Tribune.