Sketched by Lady Chatterton at the end of the hall, and tradition affirms that it served as his sideboard. On one of the oak window-shutters in this hall, are the royal arms, with two Tudor roses carved above, and the Plantagenet portcullis below: bearing testimony that this mansion was one of those which Queen Elizabeth visited in her progresses through her kingdom. Crawley Grange takes its name of “ Grange,” from having been assigned peculiarly to the Abbot of the monastery of St. Firmin, as his residence or farm, during office. This monastery was one of those whose lands were held of the Abbey of Woburn in chief, and was dissolved at the passing of the monastic Reform Bill. The Church of Crawley is a very handsome structure, and is dedicated also to St. Firmin. The house came into the hands, about two hundred years ago, of a family of the name of Hackett, which lived in it for about a century and a half: some of the family are buried in the chancel. Since that period it has become the property of Thomas Alexander Boswell, Esq., of the family of Auchinleck in Ayrshire, the present possessor. Mr. Boswell has fitted up and repaired it in its own style. This gentleman is grandson to the celebrated Boswell, the friend of Dr. Johnson. Of course there are sundry legends and ghost stories attached to the old mansion. Who ever heard of an ancient mansion-house, without an apparition? But the proprietor has heard of one story, which, free as he is from superstitious imaginations, has yet produced a feeling, which makes him exclaim with Hamlet, to those who sneer, "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." The story alluded to is, that in some very early period of the existence of the house, before it became the property of the Hacketts, it was possessed by a young gentleman and his wife, to whom it had been granted, probably at the dissolution, or some time later. The brother of this gentleman was a very bigoted Roman Catholic, and considered his brother, who had embraced the new doctrine, as doomed to eternal destruction. But resolving, |