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FAMOUS SONGS
them, she (the housekeeper) missed some counterpanes or something similar. In search-ing for the missing articles she went into some rooms that had not been occupied for many years.
" Oh, they may be in the chest, and yet I do not think it likely," said the housekeeper.
However, she opened the chest and to her horror beheld the wedding garments of the lost girl. Upon the family being made acquainted with the discovery they had forty rooms pulled down, as the mansion was excessively large, and they could not bear to go into that part of the house again. It is true that, at the beginning of the last century, a projecting wing containing thirty-three rooms was pulled down. But no faith is placed in the story of the lost bride. However, there was a daughter, Elizabeth, of Sir John Cope, the sixth baronet, who met her death in this way. She died, aged 13, in 1730. But of her being the lady of the chest there is no tradition, for if there had been any truth in this version, Sir Richard, the ninth baronet, who was her cousin and nine or ten years old at the time of her death, would surely have known. He died in 1836. It is stated, how-ever, that he was a man of peculiar disposition and did not like being questioned about the
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