Identifier: seriesofpictures04morr (find matches)
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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thickets, commands a distant view of Nasehy Field. Thecircumstance is thus recorded upon a tablet in the alcove by Dr. Bennett, late Bishopof Cloyne:— Where yon blue field scarce meets our straining eyes,A fatal name for England—Naseby lies. It was in a summer house at Newton—belonging to another branch of the Treshamfamily—that the framers of the Gunpowder Plot used to concoct their plans. Thomas Truesdale Clarke, Esq., of Swakeleys, in the county of Middlesex,married Jane Selina Capel, eldest daughter of the Hon. and Rev. William RobertCapel, third son of William Anne Capel, fourth Earl of Essex. Their son, William Capel Clarke (Thornhill,) Esq., J.P., and Captain in the Third Regimentof Fusiliers, assumed the additional surname of Thornhill in consequence of hismarriage with Miss Clara Thornhill, daughter and coheiress of Thomas Thornhill,Esq., of Fixby Hall and Riddleworth Hall, in Yorkshire, and had, with other issue, Thomas Bryan Clarke-Thornhill, born March 13th., 1857.
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PEPER HAEOW, NEAR GODALMING, SURREY. VISCOUNT MIDLETON. The parish of this name is supposed to have been thus called from some ancientproprietor of the name of Pepard or Pipard. In Domesday Book it is denominated Piperherge, and stated to have been then heldby Walter Fitz Other, Castellan of Windsor, and under him again by one Girard. The manor of Peper Harow continued in his family till his great-grandson, Walter de Windsor, who leaving no sons, the property was divided between histwo daughters, Christian, married to Duncan de Lascells, and GuNNORA, the wife of Ralph de Hesdeng. This was in the reign of King John, whenthe manor appears to have been alienated. In the time of Henry the Third it was held by William Branche, with whose wife, Joan, it remained till her re-marriage withPeter de Bosted, in the seventh year of the reign of Edward I. The estate appearsto have been mortgaged, for it was recovered from the son of the above-named, Sir Nicholas Branche, by Henry de Gueldepord, by

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