The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-14

Flemish tapestry representing scenes
from the history of ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
The great hall used as a dining
room is seventy-five feet long and half
as wide. An one end is a raised floor,
where the table of the lord of the ma
nor stood; below him sat the retainers
and lower members of the household
A list of 126 names is preserved. that
being the number of those who regu-
larly took their meals in the hall in
1924. In this hall there is a. large col
lection of silver and pewter vessels
handed down from generation TO gen.
Grafton. The grounds and gardens,
need hardly add, are in keeping with
the interior of the castle. We saw
here one OF the prettiest specimens
of the skill of the hortieulturist's art
that has come under our observation
Grape vines are grown in large pots
and trained upon a hoop-like trellis
When we were there the clusters of
ripened grapes added to the beauty
of the vines.
We spent one night at Broughton
castle as the guests of Lord and Lady
Lennox- The host and hostess have
often visited the United States and are
quite liberal in their political views.
They are also identified with the COM
munity, encouraging artistic industry
such as wood carving and the like, by
which the young people may add to
their income, as we'll as develop their
taste. In this connection, il sho I'D be
explained that the owner of an estate
occupies responsible position. While
he draws rent from his tenants, he is
expected TO be their patron and pro-
tector, as well as their general adj
wiser He provides the Christmas fes-
tivities. gives presents to the children
and looks after the sick.
The moral standards which he sets
up have large influence upon the re-
ligious and social life of the COM
munity, and the conscientious land
owner is able TO do a great dead OF
good.
Broughton castle is near Banbury-
the Banbury cross, immortaliZed in
child rhymes by the woman ''who rode
white horse"-and was frequented by
Cromwell and his friends. In fact, in one
of the rooms, as tradition goes. the
death warrant Of Charles /. was signed.
The house is Of stone and the roof is
covered with stone tiles-and a good
roof it still is, though 600 years old. In
some of the rooms fine oak panneling
had been painted over, and in other
rooms handsome stone walls had been
disfigured with plaster, bat the present
occupant is restoring these. As in
many of the larger and older country
places. BroughtOn las q little chapel OF
its own, where the family assembled for
divine service. The castle is sur
rounded by a shaded lawn, ornamented
by hedge, evergreens, flower beds and
rose colored arbors, and around ali
| these runs the moat, fed from neighbOr-
ing streams. The memory of feudal
times is preserved by the towers. draw
bridge and massive gates. English his
frNs~x~ &c To-. H.
country seats, and much in English
home life is explained that would other
wise be difficult to understand
Warwick castle is near Lexington
and but few miles from Broughton.
IT is probably the most visited of all
the castles of England, and is still in
the family of the Earl Of Warwick. the
king maker It is built upon the banks
OF the Avon, and has deep. dark dun
geon and lofty towers AMI all the ac-
cesSOries of an ancient fortress. The
great hall is filled with 9rmor and heir
looms. The house contains Il valuable
collection of paintings by old masters,
and the furniture of the sleepirg
rooms is as remarkable for its design
as for its antiquity. A few weeks ago a
pageant. illustrating the history of the
castle, was given on the banks of the
stream and attended by some 20nOG
visitors.
SO much for the great estates of
England. They are still maintained
and the system is still defended by
many English statesmen as the one
best calculated to preserve the family
and the present social structure.
There does not seem to be as much
opposition here as an American would
suppose to this system, under which
priority OF birth carries with il so
great an advantage over those born
afterward. The younger children,
reared to expect little except in case
of the death of those older, seem TO
course. and tenants descended from
generations of tenants seem To acqui-
esce without protest in tenure which
deprives them of the prospect CT cwn-
ership.
While one can appreciate the beau
ty of the manors and admit that they
could not be maintained under any
other system than that which gives
them entire to one member of tho
family. and prevents alienation, still
IN American finds his admiration for
American institutions increasing while
he travels, for TO him the advantages
that flow from individual OWNERSHIP !
and the division of estates at death
seem infinitely greater than any that
are to be derived from the English
system A hundred farmers stimulated
| by hope and secure in their holdings