1859] WORK IN SOUTHERN COUXTIKS fS29
bYitwell Manor, a most picturesque old house, rented by the father of my college friend Forsyth (Jrant —u Kyrie/1 I^ritwell is a haunted house, and was inhabited by two families. When the Kdwardes lived then1 in the summer, no figure was seen, but stains of fresh blood wen1 constantly found on tin* staircase. When the ({rants lived there, for hunting, in the winter, there*, was no blood, but the servants who went down first in the morning would meet on the staircase an old man hi a grey dressing-gown, bleeding from an open wound iti the throat. It is said that Sir Baldwin Wakes a forme1!* proprietor, tjuar-relled with his brother about a lady of whom they wen* both enamoured, and, giving out that- he was insane, imprisoned him till real madness ensued. IIis prison was at the top of the house, where a sort of large human dog-kennel still exists, to which the unfortunate man is said to have been chained.
I made a delightful excursion with **KyrioM to Wroxton Abbey and Brought on ('astir-—Lord Saye and Sole's — where wo wore invited to luncheon by Mr. Fionnos and Lady Augusta, in the former of whom I most unexpectedly found "Twisldon " l—~ an old hero boy-friend of my Harrow school-days, whom I. regarded then much us David (?opporfiold did Stoorforth. The old castle is very picturesque, and the church full of curious monuments*
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