Identifier: otherfamoushomes00mala (find matches)
Title: Other famous homes of Great Britain and their stories
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Malan, A(lfred) H(enry), (from old catalog) ed
Subjects: Historic buildings Country homes Dwellings
Publisher: New York and London, G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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e use of the Walden estates was, however,allowed to Lady Audley^ for her life, and she was to have andenjoy his chief and capital mansion house at Walden with theparke adjoining, and all houses and precincts thereof, also forher life. This house must have been the original Audley End, aboutwhich very little is known. But the present house stands onthe site of the old Abbey, and therefore the statement that LordAudley converted the Abbey into his country residence, thoughnot absolutely certain, seems most probable. Margaret Audley was first married at the age of fourteen toHenry Dudley, fourth son of John, Earl and Duke of Northumber-land, who was killed at the battle of St. Ouentin in Picardy, inAugust, 1557, and left no child. Before the year was over thegirl-widow .Margaret became the second wife of Thomas Howard,fourth Duke of Norfolk. The Duchess of Norfolks portrait, inan elaborate dress and close ruff, by Lucas de Heere, hangs in She married, secondly, Sir George Norton, Knight.
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i83 i84 HuMe^ l£nD the Hall. It was originally painted on the same panel as thatof her husband, but for some reason the portraits were divided,the coat-of-arms between the two being severed in the middle,the first two words of the motto. Sola virtus, being on the Dukeshalf, the third word, Iiivictj, on the other. The Dukespicture became the property of the Earls of Westmoreland, hissister Jane having married Charles Neville, Earl of Westmoreland ;while the Duchess of Norfolks portrait, formerly at DraytonHouse, was presented by Lord George Germaine to Lord Howardde Walden. The portrait of Margaret Audley and her ill-fatedhusband, disunited for so many years, met once more within thewalls of Burlington House during the winter exhibition of 1885.Since then Lord Westmoreland has sold the Duke of Norfolkspicture, which now belongs to the Rothschilds. Margaret Audley had by her second marriage four children :one died early ; William, her second son, was ancestor of theEarls of Carlisle, a

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