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Gentleman's Magazine 1848 part 2 p.138
bright, the other allecret, and a demi-suit of bright
steel inlaid with gold, over the fire-place, and three full
cap-a-pie suits of bright armour against the screen; one a
very fine suit temp. Henry VI.another a fluted suit temp.
Henry VIII. and the third of Elizabeth's reign? George
Clifford the renowned Earl of Cumberland flourished at this
time, and was born in Brougham Castle at a time when
Brougham Hall did not exist, who died possessed of no more
than one suit of armour in Westmoreland. Henry Brougham left
five full suits and a demi, certain; besides other demi
suits which hang "twelve feet high above the paneling."
Majority of iron suits over George Earl of Cumberland seven!
Hear'st thou, Mars! - We are then asked how we know these
chattels came from Wardour Street. When our statement is
contradicted we will give answer to that question; that is
the regular way of doing business. Now we will ask Mr. Shaw
a question. He says this Thomas Brougham, who was so well
off for armour, and who was Lord Brougham, died childless,
and was succeeded by his uncle Peter Brougham - of where?
We never denied there was a Roman station at Brougham, we
only denied it was at Brougham Hall; nor did we say
there was not a court-yard at Brougham Hall; we only said
the out-offices were not as old as Henry VII. and "grey with
the weather-stain of ages;" as to a yard, few houses are
without a curtilege of some sort.
We doubted the story about the crusader's grave, the sword,
the prick-spur, "of intense interest," and Mr. G. Shaw's
absolute statement, that a skeleton found in Brougham church
was the remains of Udard de Broham, because bones bear
neither names nor dates. Not a word is said upon this; but
we are handed over to Mr. Albert Way and the gentlemen of
the Archaeological Institute. We can have no objection to
that - but this is no answer; for these parties can only
judge after all of what is placed before them. All our
strictures on the chapel are un-noticed, except the well of
St. Wilfred, which Mr. G. Shaw says he disapproved of. We
cannot find he has; but he gave us a hint we might, if we
extended our reading to Chapman and Hall's "Baronial
Halls," find this well mentioned: we have no doubt of
it. Such recent works as specimens of pictorial art are many
of them an honour to this country; but no one ever
considered them as much authority in an historical point of
view. We never read of it in any standard book, nor ever
heard of it before.* We believe we did speak
disrespectfully of the horn, and said it was a recent
visitor at Brougham. But, instead of contradicting us, Mr.
Shaw backs out of it, by asking us a question about
tenure by cornage, and does not state about what time
this horn was exalted.
We have now run over most of Mr. Shaw's answers to the minor
points of our last letter, and leave it to your readers to
judge whether they are really any answers at all; and we
propose next to handle the main points at issue, as to which
Mr. George Shaw, instead of answering, "re-insists on the
facts detailed in his letter as quite as likely to be true
as our ostentatious accusations."
1st. "The Castle of Brougham in ruins was not forfeited,"
"nor passed from them" (the Broughams, for it is
differently worded in Mr. G. Shaw's first and second
letter), in King John's reign. We learn from an uncertain
bundle, temp. Hen. III. in the Tower of London, that an
inquisition of waste was taken on the Veteripont estate
during the minority of Robert de Veterippont. "Inq' de
vastis fact' durante minoritate sua," in which the house of
Bruhame (Bruhame domus) is mentioned as having been suffered
to go to decay. From this it is evident the King's licence
had not then been obtained to embattle; consequently the
castle of Bruhame, if not in existence temp. Hen. III. most
assuredly was not so in the prior reign of King John, and
therefore could not be forfeited or passed from any one.
Indeed this castle is with good reason supposed to have been
built by Roger de Clifford in the latter part of the reign
of Henry the Third, and the commencement of that of Edward
the First, from the inscription formerly
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