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The county seats of Shropshire : a series of descriptive sketches, with historical and antiquarian notes, of the principal family mansions (1891)

Leach, Francis · Shrewsbury : Eddowes's Shrewsbury Journal Office · leaf 303

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scroll its motto still remains 16. NEC VI, NEC VENTO. 40., but the space is now occupied by a gilt clock let into the woodwork. This \ clock has acurious history, for it was once stolen from the panel and lost for some years, being after-wards accidentally seen at a pawnbrokers shop, whence it was… … THE DRAWING ROOM. From this room a door opens into the domestic chapel, a small apartment 17ft. by 12ft., inthe west wing of the mansion ; it has three stained windows, and the family pew is agallery which communicates with a bedroom on the upper floor. The beam which supportsthis gallery is carved…

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