The Great Houses Of Nottinghamshire And The County Families Classic Reprint PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ... nuttall temple. uttall Temple has never been a show house, but it is celebrated throughout the country no less on account of the beauty of some of its internal features than of the estate of its owners, who have not only been men of affluence and position, but whose names have been identified with the history of the country in comparatively recent times. In the latter part of the last century this elegant mansion, with its lofty dome, the interior of which is beautified by the handiwork of Italian artists, who have copied with consummate skill the supurb art of the villa Capra, was the principal residence of a family whose title has become extinct, and whose name is hardly remembered in these days--I mean the Sedleys. The last of these baronets, Sir Charles Sedley, died at Nuttall Temple, in August of 1778, at a comparatively early age, leaving his property, or at any rate the most important portion of it, which embraced the Nuttall estate, to his daughter, who had married a son of Lord Vernon. On the acquisition of this fortune, Mr. Vernon does not seem to have exhibited any reluctance to change his name to Sedley, and so the old family was perpetuated for another generation, in name at any rate, though with different titular honours. For the Sedleys were a very old family. Long before they were known in Nottinghamshire they had considerable estates in Kent, and were territorial magnates in the garden of England. In the south, traces of them have been found as far back as the middle of the fourteenth century, a circumstance, which, apart from the connection of the family with this county and their residence in this house, about which I shall have to say something presently, may well warrant the revival of a dead name, if not of an...