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ticulars respecting the same. The story as told in verse both by Samuel Rogers and Thomas Haynes Bayly, is as follows: A youthful and playful bride on her wedding day hid herself, while playing hide and seek, in an oak chest; she let down the lid, the spring caught, and she was buried alive. She was sought for high and low, but it was not until some considerable time had elapsed that the old chest was broken open, and her skeleton discovered. But though this story is stated as having occurred at Bramshill, no reliable data have ever been discovered to make the belief any more than a tradition. It is denied that any Miss Cope ever met with such a fate, though the incidents have been circum-stantially set forth. A lady wrote to the late Sir William Cope, that there could be no doubt of Bramshill being the seat of the tragedy; that Miss Cope was extremely young, and just home from school at the time she was married. She proposed a game of hide and seek, which was pooh-poohed for a long time. At last she said, "Well, then, I shall go and hide myself," and she was never found again. The family left the place dreadfully unhappy. About two years after Lady Cope wrote to the housekeeper to say they were coming down; and in going about the rooms with the housemaids to prepare for
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