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The House of Lyme From Its Foundation to the End of the Eighteenth Century
The House of Lyme From Its Foundation to the End of the Eighteenth Century Author:Newton General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1917 Original Publisher: W. Heinemann Subjects: Lyme hall Cheshire Genealogy Lyme Hall History / Europe / Great Britain Reference / Genealogy Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing te... more »xt. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II THE HISTORY OF THE HOUSE 1465 Although we know nothing about the first building of Lyme, there is evidence of the existence of a house in the beginning of the fifteenth century, but it was not until the middle of the sixteenth that the Sir Piers Legh, seventh in succession, who succeeded his father in 1541, built the present house and made his principal abode in Cheshire. Before dealing with his life it may perhaps be as well to give here some description of the house and park as they existed in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Of the actual building of the present Lyme we have very scant knowledge. In the MS. volume referred to in the preceding chapter there is the following description of the house as it was in 1465 : " One fair hall with a high chamber, kitchen, bakehouse and brew- house, and a fair park, surrounded with a paling, and divers fields and heys contained in the same park with the woods, underwoods, meadows, feedings and pastures thereto belonging, which are worth to the said Peter X1 a year." Other lands are described as belonging to the estate, with rents amounting to the sum of £42 9s. We have therefore knowledge of the existence of an impaled park as early as the middle of the fifteenth century. It was surrounded by a wall at the beginning of the seventeenth in pursuance of a licence from Queen Elizabeth, who also granted permission to its owner to have free warren within it and the adjoining lands. Its extent is about 15...« less