COTEHELE HOUSE. case from the hall leads towards a chamber in which Charles II. slept for several nights. The rooms are mostly hung with tapestry. The chapel is small. Another chapel in the Gothic style, situated upon a rocky eminence, rising very steeply from the river, is remarkable for the following circumstance which gave rise to its foundation :: Sir Richard Edgecumbe was driven to hide himself in the thick woods of his domain which overhung the river, on account of bis attachment to the earl of Richmond, afterwards Henry VII.; and being pursued by king Richard's party very closely, be found no other way to extricate himself from his danger but by policy he therefore put a stone into his cap, and threw them into the river; being covered by the shelter of the surrounding forest, and his pursuers seeing the floating cap, imagining that in a state of desperation he had drowned himself, gave over the pursuit; and sir Richard found means to escape to Britanny, to await the fortune of better times. On his restoration to his country, this gentleman was appointed comptroller of the household to Henry VII. by whom he was sent ambassador to France; and dying on his return at Morlaix in Britanny, he was buried at a neighbouring church, and his cenotaph placed in this chapel which he had founded; where he is figured on a painted tablet as a knight in armour, kneeling on one knee, his helmet and gauntlet by his side, and a bishop before him. ...ut eighteen feet. It is Pattish, touch the stone below a no less tha „"wes; but probaby it is the gravi bave left between that causes tius appearané. rocked it with one hand; but its an.a ity of not exceed one inch, if so much. Th was more perceptible a few years since. are granite, which is thick strewn in the cb. n. 1 of .... river, and over al ne adjacent country. ve been the work of nature It see p to But the scenery of the surrounding neighbourhood is particular attentic, on account of its singul eur. The p. th leading from the river to the Le, x2, winds in a beautiful manner beneath the prectal 72le Down. The majestic ascert of the malis pc. |
