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Title: Memorials of old Northamptonshire
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Dryden, Alice. ed. cn
Subjects: Northamptonshire (England)
Publisher: London and Derby, Bemrose and sons, limited
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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osets and conveniences without end.Then it is covered with portraits, crammed with old china, furnishedrichly, and not a rag in it under forty, fifty, or a thousand years old,and not a bed or a chair that has lost a tooth, or got a grey hair, so wellare they preserved. I rummaged it from head to foot, examined everyspangled bed and enamelled pair of bellows, for such there are; inshort, I do not believe the old mansion was ever better pleased with aninhabitant since the days of Walter de Drayton, except when it hasreceived its divine old mistress. . . . The garden is just as Sir JohnGermaine brought it from Holland: pyramidal yews, treillages, andsquare cradle walks with windows clipped in them. Horace Walpole rummaged at Drayton to some purpose,as in another letter he says: I have given Lady BettyGermain a very fine portrait that I discovered at Draytonin the woodhouse. According to tradition this is a paint-ing of Lady Warwick (Rich.) by Antonio More, whichhangs in the drawing-room.
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o < Drayton. 197 Lady Betty, on her death in 1769, left Drayton by willto the famous Lord George Sackville. This was inaccordance with the wish of Sir John Germain. Theunusual bequest of so fine a mansion to a distant relative—for Lady Betty had nieces of her own—is alluded to inthe journal of Lady Mary Coke: — I am grieved to think Lady Betty Germaine suffered so much indying, but it is now over, and I dont doubt she is rewarded for her manyvirtues. I cannot say her will is exactly what I wished or expected, butI cannot make any reflection on the memory of so excellent a woman. This, from the pen of Lady Mary, who had little goodto say of anyone, is high testimony to the famous mistressof Drayton. The house to which Lord George Sackville came ispractically identical with the house of to-day. Sir JohnGermain had built the cloisters in the quadrangle as wenow see them, and had substituted the sash windows ofhis day for the venerable mullions. To his first wife,Lady Mordaunt, i

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