Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustration. See 11903-h.htm or 11903-h.zip: (http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/1/1/9/0/11903/11903-h/11903-h.htm) or (http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/1/1/9/0/11903/11903-h.zip) THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. Vol. 20. No. 573.] SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1832. [PRICE 2d. * * * * * OLD HALL, IN DERBYSHIRE. [Illustration] This picturesque specimen of olden architecture stands upon the Norton Lees estate, on the northern verge of Derbyshire upon the adjacent county of York; about a mile from Sheffield, and eight miles north of Chesterfield, and but a short distance from Bolsover Castle, pictured in No. 566 of _The Mirror_. "The estate, in the reign of Henry VII., was the property of the family of the Blythes of Norton, two of whom arrived at great honours in the church; one of them, John, being the Bishop of Salisbury, and the other, Geoffrey, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry."[1] The above was the mansion of the family: its picturesqueness is of pleasing character; and our inquiry into the probable age of the structure has naturally enough led us into a few observations upon the early domestic architecture of this country. The subject is, however, too rife with interesting details for the present occasion; so that all we now purpose is by way of reference to the specimen or illustration before us. [1] Rhodes's Peak Scenery, Part IV.