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Essex England - Audley End Estate - 1880 COLOR PRINT " FO Morris antique prints colored engravings circa 1880 ANTIQUE COLOR PRINT Title: AUDLEY END Approximate Image Size: 5 X 7 1/2 inches Approximate Overall Size: 8 X 10 1/2 inches Brilliant color print. Printed and engraved by by B. Fawcett, Driffield. This beautiful attractive colour plate originates from and is one of a Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of The Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britian and Ireland as presented by F. O. Morris. A greater proportion of the drawings which originated from the publication were by Alexander F. Lydon, and printed from coloured wood-blocks using the Baxter process by Benjamin Fawcett. Published by William Mackenzie, Ludgate Hill, Edinburgh and Dublin CONDITION: Excellent Condition. The colors are brilliant, rich and bright. Reverse side is blank and printed on heavier quality paper. Excerpt from the old descriptive: AUDLEY END, NEAR SAFFRON WALDEN, ESSEX.-LORD BRAYBROOKE. This princely residence holds a distinguished place among the "County Seats" of England. The old manor, which was vested in the crown, was bestowed by King Henry the Eighth on Sir. Thomas AUDLEY, then Lord Chancellor of England, who was raised to the peerage in the year 1538 under the title of Baron Audley of Walden,-Walden Abbey having also been appropriated by the king at the dissolution of the monasteries, and bestowed on Sir Thomas together with the estate. His daughter and heiress, MARGARET AUDLEY, married, first, Lord henry Dudley, younger brother of the husband of Lady Jane Grey, and, Secondly, having no children, she became the second of the three wives of Thomas Howard, fourth Duke of Norfolk. Of the second marriage there wore two sons, 1. THOMAS, the heir. 2. WILLIAM, ancestor of the Earls of Carlisle. The eldest son, Thomas Howard, .summoned to the House of Lords by Queen Elizabeth as Baron Howard of Walden. He was farther elevated by King James on the 21st. of July, 1603, to the title of Earl of Suffolk, and was soon afterwards appointed Lord Chamberlain, and in performance of part of the routine of his office . with Lord Monteagle, to whom notice of the Gunpowder Plot had been given, and thus, on the 4th. of November, 1605, discovered the materials laid for the intended blowing-up of the assembled Lords and Commons. In the year 1618 he was appointed Lord High Treasurer of England, but being, as the father-in-law of the fallen courtier Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset, obnoxious to Buckingham, the new favourite, he was deprived of his office, and committed, together with his countess, to the Tower. It was this nobleman who erected the magnificent palace of Audley End. He died in 1626, leaving a large family, of whom the eldest son, THEOPHILUS HOWARD, succeeded to the .JAMES HOWARD, the third Earl, who, about the year 1668, sold the park and mansion to King Charles the Second for ?50,000, of which ?20,000 was left unpaid at the Revolution, and in the year 1701 the demesne was re-conveyed to the family of Howard, the fifth Earl of Suffolk, he on receiving it, relinquishing his claim upon the Crown for the balance of the debt. His descendant, HENRY " tenth Earl of Suffolk, died without issue in 1733, when the Earldom devolved on his distant cousin, HENRY BOWES HOWARD, fourth Earl of Buckingham. The title to the estate of Audley End then became disputed, between the second Earl of Effingham, who claimed under a settlement made by, the seventh Earl of Suffolk, and the heirs of the two daughters of the third Earl. The Courts of Law decided in favour of the latter, namely, THE HONOURABLE ELIZABETH GRIFFIN, wife, first of HENRY NEVILLE, (GREY,) ESQ., who assumed the last surname, and secondly, of the EARL OF PORTSMOUTH, and her Sister Anne, who married WILLIAM WHITWELL, ESQ. Of these two ladies, the former had no children, but the latter had a son, in whose favour the abeyance was terminated as LORD HOWARD 0F WALDEN. He had no children, and consequently, in cons. Seller Inventory # 6024
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