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VOL. LXXXVII. RfCL
\ Visit to I
It was a misty, dripping midsummer day. The
vain fell softly on the drenched earth, as if for
wry weariness. The little station at Xaworth
was deserted, lint just as we turned to leave an
M man appeared, lie proved to be the station
n:ist<ir. "No, ho \vii> not >utv tho now Hurroi
would- allow visitors
through tho now oastlo.
tlio liowld Ilunvl alius
would." * Yos tlioro was
a tavorn yon way down .. . ?
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NY it! '
t'to fatn uis oastlo Imnto
i?l. ll seemed ;ui uMwar- jr ?
ranted intrusion. Wliv I .
jo* V- ^
should curious visitor1- */i
i roi11 America t? alloweil
the freedom of these Ills- H
1 Tic lial!.s ' ! hit 1 hey do I
allow it Kven K yalty al 1
lows it. I innifiiic stepping Castle Naworth. 1
op to t lm front door of a
wealthy American's home ami saying, "I would
like to go through your house.''
lie fore us was the ancient home of as distinguished
a family as will he found in the
I nited Kingdom. In fact, several of their ancestors
had actually sat upon the Knglisli throne,
hi'-k in the I'lantaeeiiet and Tudor days. Ami
1 lie Ciisi It* looked tin* .seat ol' a true and ancient
aristocracy. The veiy st??iu\s in the walls sce-med
to suggest a lie ,111(1 exclusion. And wll.V should
iln-y not Many o llieiu were brought from the
< !<I Woman wall, wherein they were placed bel
i c the days of t'hrisl by the hands of the
toenail legionaries.
<' 11111ii;111?li11irly .- it uated on a hill-top, silt'
uv us |>ai'k.s ;111<i u ooillaml-i, through
liit-li 11n* lii Ilr river ! filling murmurs its quiet
way to tlii- sea, Naworth lias from time immemorial
l?eeii a place for aggression and defence,
flic grounds and gardens are tended with care.
The tower that forms the gateway to the outer
court is a mouldering ruin half covered with ivy
and embowered with tin* overhanging trees. A
more |?ieturesque gateway, no man. be he lord
or eonmioner, eon Id elaim.
In that far-auav time when history sinks into
the twilight of tradition this castle was held by
a powerful family, do Moulton, who came over
W illi the I 'nnmiiirnt- 'Pl?e mnln !> >? !?,.
?..x. ? "?? |??v ?*/i . i in indie iiuc iiin iii^, i. in:
title estates fell to a young maiden of seventeen,
as beaut i fnI as she was noble and rich. Margaret
was placed in the care of llie Earl of Warwick
by tin- king, whose ward she was, and was be
I MONO. NEW ORLEANS, ATLANTA.
Maworth Ca:
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ctw11ii~\! n? it v iun ??i xi?*i' rien nnu jMiwrriui
family of Yorkshire, one Hubert ?Clifford. a
ehild of sewn. I tut Margaret loved a strong
and bravo young knight. Kanulf do Pacre, who
was no doubt as fierce as bis name implies. So
Kami If stole Margaret. and the king forgave
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the roof, the T?nvor t ? !i. ?I Will. ;mt| llie '
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"The Kiver irlhinj?, peacefully slumbering between
tbe rocks, held tin* hdty trees and ha/v
clouds like a mirror, in its bosom."
vesternpf?esb ytepiath
al Presbyterian e
YTLhVAM
JULY 9, 1913. NO. 27
I -: BY :^ev
^ - F? Squires
1 lu in a> all good kings should. So thry settled
on Margaret's vast estates at Xaworth. Hut to
hold ones own in the borderland in those wild
lays was no easy matter, with the tierce marauding
Scots just a few miles away to the north.
Xaworth had the Armstrongs and the I>ouglass.>s
at the verv gates.
1
\\ llcll T W. > I .-lit 'ir.es
had passed {lie last of liis
line, one Thomas ilc
Daeiv, was tlii.s
?s - ..^v st : 1. 11 s . i
Kli/aheia, heiress of
. .vi,Hi 1..VI, 1't 11 ulli'-d in
shir.-. I'.ut >.r 'I'll'
^ In.>!< ,i 1 .1:
ily hiMeiy an. I ?-l. >[?.(!
?. ? T with Elizabeth. .-\.-ti as
j|-r ; iiin.' ni his lorLieans hail
? t l.ipi'il with Margaret. So
lwi.*e over were the t'lif^JP
^ torils i t \ orkshiiv elieat|
eil .if their brides and
blutMl sir Tholli;is NVas
|',mil,.] entrance. 11 Imrce lighter somewhat
akin to a well known lieuera
1 Sherman in move recent history on our sit!.'
of the water, for he boasted that where there
h.itl hceii 4011 Scotch plows ami men to run tlietu
not one now remained. Sir Thomas died lighting
for his king. Henry V 111 at Flodden Field,
where he led the cavalry against the Scots.
As he lett Ho son. tile estates passed to
his eldest daughter. Fdizabelh, wife of Sir
William Howard. II too was as tierce as
i,? . . .i .. - i
.. r> niiiniin i .11 lit T-IM-I.I W . III!' tile I' COUtltl'V
11'!I\ Were wuiil to cNelaun, "There is tneivy with
!ni|, luil i?ii?* with Sir William." 11 ? was ail ar?I
111 ('atIndie. Mis ciiiimii. (jtieeii Kli/.ahetli. had
mi toleran?*?- for the l'a|>i>ts. In liis old age the
blond tin Sir W illiam's hands began to get. on
his c iiisrii-nc". In tin* bdly tower In* built a
little ehapel ami cunningly rout rived a way tor
nit' priests to enter 111ft111o 11 tin' Ihick masonry
lit' tlif walls. Ilere he prayed more ami more
continuously with advancing atje. Sir Walter
Seott in "The Lay of the Last Minstrel'' has
east the glamor of romance over this "liclted
Sir William." the tirst of the Xaworth Howards,
whose representative today is the Karl of (Carlisle.
Oti reaching the front portal of the castle,
whom should it he our good fortune to meet face
to face l?tit tlie Karl himself? lie was directing
the gardener about sotne work evidently of mutual
interest and perhaps some importance. We
asked whetlier visitors would he admitted to the
castle: The Karl smiled and replied, "You are
from America." We pled guilty to the aoeus.a