The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-28
~ IA MAnau1sE DE roNrENoY.

by IA MARQuISE DE FONTENOY.
~ HE Petres are one of the great
Catholic houses OF tho old Eng
lish aristocracy, q house by the
by, that has many American az
filiations, and tho public announce
ment, therefore, that one OF it's best
known members, Miss Maude Petre,
has been barred by the Roman Catho-
lie Church from the sacraments, that
is to say, subjected to the penalties of
accommodation, Is calculated to
create sensation on both sides of
tho Atlantic. Miss Maude Petre was
the friend. the champion and the lit
erary executor of the late Father Tyr
rell, who died without the pale of
the Roman Catholic Church. and was
deprived OF the rites of Ronari Catho-
lie burial owing to his refusal to re.
cant the doctrinal errors contained in
his so-called ''modernist" writings.
These modernist doctrines have been
several encyclicals, notably those en-
titled the. "Pascendi" and the La
nientabilt"
Miss Petre having. as literary ex-
ecntor of Father Tyrrell, taken Y very
active part in the circulation of his
Roman Catholic Church to send to her
diocesan, in writing, a pledge that she
'submitted entirely TO the Holy See
in the matter Of the encyclcal Pas
she has refused to do this, she has
been barred from all the Sacramento
Of the Roman Catholic Church. Miss
Maude Petre Is granddaughter OF
the eleventh Lord Petre, a woman of
over forty. and one of her brothers.
Laurence Petre, is married to Jennie,
daughter OF a. Williams. of Cincin-
hati, while one of her sisters is a
nun. There are at least twelve wo-
men of the Petre family who are
either else SiEtnrS n rhar{fN-
Reginald sPetre. cousin OF Miss
Maude Petre Is married TO Caroline.
daughter of J. Alexander Preston. of
Baltimore and the present Lord Petre,
fourteenth OF his line has also Amerl-
can blood in his veins, through his
mother. daughter of the late George
cayendish Taylor.
Lord Petre Will come of age next
sive estates, which comprise thornton
Hall and IngateAtone. both of which
have been in the possession OF the
Petres since they were bestowed by
Henry YIN. upon his Secretary of
State. Sir William Petre. Owing to
property of the church, Sir William
would not accert them until his pos
session thereof was confirmed by
papal bull. a precaution which not
seems 70 have fallen upon most of
TIE families who participated In tho
distribution OF the conflscated prop
erty of the church but likewise pre-
Queen Mary, when she restored the
Roman Catholic faith and sent the
principal Reformers to the stake and
TO the scafold.
old paintings, among the most In
teresting of which Is one which shows
the amazing way in which Charles
Radcliffe, the Jacobite Earl of Der
Weentwater, won the hand of Char
lotte, Countess Of Newburgh. the an
cestress of the present Lord New
burgh, and of his sisters. who in
elude Lady Isabel Howard. wife of
Esme Howard, formerly first secre-
tary and councillor of the British em-
water proposed marriage, not once.
nor twice, hut dozen times, to Lady
Newburgh, who was quite resolute In
ner determination never to wed again
her first husband having been Thomas
clifford, of Chudleigh. by whom she
mad a daughter of the name OF Anne
Lord Derwentwater however, was not
me man to take widows nay, and
chimney into her sleeping apart
nent-tlte chimneys were very large
and roomy in those days-and point
ing out to her that she was hopelessly
compromised by hfs presence In her
bedroom at that time of the night, ex-
torted from her consent to their
Unless I am much mistaken
this is the only instance In the an
rails of the English aristocracy where
peeress in her owl right has been
Won by a sutton clambering, not up
TO her window, but down the chimney
of her room.
lngatestonc, the other home of Lord
1,e IN Essex, Is. portrayed by Miss
of Audley Court, In her most power
full novel, Lady Audleys Secret"
Inc Petre peerage dates from the
reign : y s,tr !, OF King James I. and was be-
son Of that Sir William Petre who. as
mentioned above, was Henry VIII IS
Secretary OF State. The fourth Lord
retre was one OF the victims Of the
nous informer, Titus Oates, dying as
a prisoner In dungeon of the Tower
dies number Of widows on the es-
aates receive new gold sovereign
or the deceased's life. Thus were
young Lord Patre to die too day, at
the age of twenty, lust a score of
WIDOWS would receive this dole, the
reign of Queen Elizabeth
General Lord .cheylesmore, whose
Wife Wife +, daughter of Francis O.
therefore, of Alfred G. Vanderbilt's.
former wife, has lust purchased the
picturesque building of Cooper's Fill
College, at Egham, for use as coun-
try seat. Until now he and his wife
have been content to rent country
seats, and for number of years they
lived, when in the country at Hughen-
den Manor, formerly the home of Lord
and now owned by his
nephew, Coningsby Dlsraeli
Although Lord Cheylesmore Is SOL
der, and retired with the rank OF
major general from the army, he de.
rves his wealth from the Coventry
and London firm of silk manufacture
ers and brokers known In commerce.
under the title ot E'atoni&. Sons, and
Invariably has charge of ;thefniinage-
ment of the business. ana as Lord
Oh aX1nSInnra. retired from 4 he, IA TnlY on