Identifier: cu31924104002419 (find matches)
Title: North-country sketches, notes, essays and reviews ..
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Neasham, George Bewick, John, 1760-1795 Bewick, Thomas, 1753-1828 Wordsworth Collection
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Publisher: Durham, Printed for the author by T. Caldcleugh
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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and remained a prisoner in hisplace. Lady Crewes portrait is in the collection,however, in the character of a shepherdess. By thedeath of her brothers. Lady Crewe was co-heir withher nephew, the General, to the manors of Bamburghand Blanchland, but, as the estate was encumbered, itwas sold by order of the Court of Chancery in 1704,and was bought by Lord Crewe for ;^20,679. It isgenerally said that Crewe purchased the estates afterthe Jacobite rising in 1715, which is not the case.Lady Crewe died in 1715, and was buried at Stene,the Bishop himself dying seven years later at the ageof 88, and by his will leaving the castle of Bamburghand the estates which he had purchased in Northumberlandto trustees for charitable purposes. By Lord Crewes side is a portrait of the Rev. SirGeorge Wheler, knight. This austere-looking gentlemanin the skull cap lived till he was 74. He was a Prebendaryof Durham and Rector of Houghton-le-Spring, to whichhe was collated and appointed by his patron Lord Crewe
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ART AND THE DRAMA. 9 thus accounting for the presence of his portrait atBamburgh. There were some good traits about SirGeorge. He was a Christian, and a good tolerantneighbour to boot. Indeed, he was just the sort ofman that we should like to grapple to our soul withhooks of steel. We cannot say what quarry was huntedat Houghton in Sir Georges day, but he was of opinionthat the liking for it might be indulged very innocently.Shooting and fencing were also both diverting and useful,he thought, * and I had rather hear good music, hesays, ^ and see fine dancing than the harsh rattling ofdice and the shuffling of cards. Sir George wouldturn over in his tomb in the Galilee if he knew howthe revenue of the Cathedral church has been curtailedsince the days when he and his brother prebendariesgave their residential entertainments in the College. Itmay be said that his description is all that is left ofthem. ** Each prebendary in his turn, he writes,* entertains with great liberality the poor

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