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Title: A series of picturesque views of seats of the noblemen and gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland. With descriptive and historical letterpress
Year: 1840 (1840s)
Authors: Morris, F. O. (Francis Orpen), 1810-1893
Subjects: Historic buildings Historic buildings
Publisher: London (etc.) W. Mackenzie
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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carriages at once, and whose central span was to be closed in by a glazedroof. The entrance hall was to be of limited dimensions; but instead of a largeentrance hall, a music hall of large size, and of the height of two storeys of thebuilding, was to be formed in the centre of the house, and away from the entrance. All the rooms on the ground floor, inclading the great hall, were to have groinedvaulting over them in fireproof material, which was also used in the construction ofthe upper floors. The family of Manners deduces its descent from Sir Robert de Manners, Knight, who in the seventeenth year of the reign of King IV. G 44 KELHAM HALL. Edward the Second was returned into Chancery as one of the principal persons inthe county of Northumberland. It has since then been ennobled in the line of the Duke of Rutland, creationdated of Marquis and Duke, June 18th., 1525; also in that of Lord Manners,creation dated April 20th., 1807; and Viscount Canterbury, creation dated March10th., 1835.
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CASTLE COOLE, COUNTY FERMANAGH, IRELAND. EARL OF BELMORB. This mansion is situated in the midst o£ the beautiful demesne of the samename. It commands an extensive woodland view to the south-west, with a finemountain background, while the back, or more correctly the north-west front, looksdown upon a picturesque lake (Lough Coole) of some forty acres of water. A flockof grey-lag wild-geese, which settled here, it is said, several generations ago, havebecome domesticated on the lake, never straying far from its shores. There arefour small wooded islands near the borders of the lough, which are possibly ancientIrish cranages. The demesne contains two other lakes: one. Lough Yoan, of con-siderable size; the other, Breandrum Lake, much smaller. The timber at Castle Coole is a noticeable feature in the landscape. There isa row of beech trees, some of which are about one hundred and twenty-five feetin height, supposed to have been planted early in the last century; and another,not so high,

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