Boys and Girls from Thackeray

When Francis fourth Viscount Castlewood came to his title and presently after to take possession of his house of Castlewood County Hants in the year 1691 almost the only tenant of the place besides the domestics was a lad of twelve years of age of whom no one seemed to take any note until my Lady Viscountess lighted upon him going over the house with the housekeeper on the day of her arrival.