The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-11-21
La Marquise de Fontenoy
v DUNG LORD PETRE. lieutenant
In the Coldstream Guards, like
/ old Sir Tollemuche Sinclair's


grandson and heir. Archibald
sinclair (whosc coming OF age | re-
corded yesterday In these ietters), is
half American, and celebrated las,
week the attainment OF his majority
which enables MIN to take HIS seat in
the House OF Lords as hereditary
legislator. His mother. the widowed
lazy retire, was aiss julia ("Pussy''J
lay!or, OF New YORK, eldest qau4ntc!
ot the late George Cavenuisn Taylor
ana quite a numDer OF otner mrnlDers
OF the Petre family have murrlro
americans, Lawrence pe,re. greno.
son OIL the eieventn peer, havl.s leo
10 the altar jeanne, daughter VI \
Williams, uf CINCINNATI. wnIIc Keg!.
a asta retfe mas %it9. Garol,ne
Preston. OF Baltimore.
The principal features OF tho cello
Dration OF young LORD Petres com
ing oi ase, were great ban9uets and
ana employees of mis- Two country
seats, Tnorndon Hall and lngatcstvne.
both OF them In Essex, wnicn have
been in thc possession 81 his family
state 81. william Pctre. owing to
the fact that they we're connscated
property OF the church, Sir William
would not accept them until his own
ershIp thereof was confirmed by q
papai bull. a precauuon waicn not on
~ served 10 avert the blight which
seems to have fallen upon most famt-
Hes who participated in the distribu-
ton of the forfeited property OF the
church, but ilkewlse prevented any re-
prisals on the part Of Queen Mary.
when she restored the Roman Catno-
lie fuith and sent the principal Re
formers to the stake and to the scaf-
fold.
thornton Hall is full of wonderful
old paintings. among the most inter
estinS OF which is one which shows
the amazing way in which Charles
naadciiife. tho Jacobite Earl of Der
Vwentwnter won the hand of Charlotte.
Countess OF Newburgh. the ancestresa
OF the present Lord Newburgh and OF
his sisters. who include Lady Isabel
Howard wife OF Esme Howard. former
bassy at Washington. and now English
minister plenipotentiary ut Berne.
Der"chtwater proposed marriage. not
once nor twice. but dozen times. 10
charlotte. Lady Newburgh who was
quite resoiute in her determination
never to wed again. her first husband
having been Thomas clifford. OF
Chudleigh, by whom she had had one
9huShter. OF the name of Anne. Lord
Derwehtwater. however. was not the
man TO take widows nay, and ono
hIsht ne clambered down the chimney
into her sleeping apartment-the chin
neys were very large and roomy in
those days--and pointing out to her
mat she was hopeiessly compromised
~ ms presence In her bedroom at
mat time OF night. extorted from her Il
consent to their marriage. Unless I
am much mistaken. this Is the only
instance In the annals OF the English
aristocracy where n peerless in her own
right has been won by a sutton clam
| berifE, not up to her window but
down the chimney OF her room.
lngatestone. the other home of Lord
retire, Is portrayed by Miss Braddun,
the novelist, under the name of Aud
ley Court" in her most powerful and
Secret"
The Petre peeraga dates from the
reign of James l., and was bestor cd
by the latter upon Sir John Petre. son
OF Henry VIII:'s prudent Secretary Of
state. The fourth Lord Petre was
one OF tho victims OF the perjured de.
nunciations of the Infamous informer
Titus Oates. dying ns prisoner In
one OF the dungeons OF the Tower OF
London. Another famous member OF
the family was the Jesuit Father Petre
or Father Peters" as the people call.
ed him; the favorite counselor OF
King James II. James made him
clerk of the closet. that is to ray, his
chief Official spiritual adviser. But
the last straw. in popular opinion. was
his bestowing upon him the dignity of