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FOOTNOTES:
[1] Freeman, _Norman Conquest_, i. 321. The Empire, of course, means that great medieval constitution of Central Europe corresponding very roughly indeed to Germany. The German Empire, as we know it, only dates from 1870.
[2] This important matter, with its bearing upon the Palatinate Power, was first noticed by Mr. K. C. Bayley, _Victoria County History_, ii. 137.
[3] See Dr. Lapsley’s book, _The County Palatine of Durham_, which forms a very able survey of the development of the whole system.
[4] Dr. Lapsley describes Boldon Book in the _Victoria County History of Durham_, vol. i. See also ii. 179.
[5] See Dr. Bradshaw’s account of the Black Death and its effect in the _Victoria County History_, ii. 209-222.
[6] No account of the legends of Durham would be complete without some note upon Robert Surtees’ ballads, several of which he foisted upon the unsuspecting Walter Scott as genuine antiques. Perhaps the most weird and effective is the one generally known as the "Legend of Sir John le Spring," the scene of which is in Houghton, the _alma mater_ of the poet’s own schoolboy days. One or two of the verses, which are well known in the North, run:
"Pray for the sowle of Sir John-le-Spring, When the black monks sing-- And the Vesper bells ring; Pray for the sprite of a murdered Knight, Pray for the sowle of Sir John-le-Spring. He fell not, before the....--♰ The waning crescent fled, When the Martyr’s palm and golden crown Reward Christ’s soldier dead.
"He fell not in the battle-field, Beneath St. George’s banner bright, When the pealing cry of victory-- Might cheer the sowle of a dying knight; But at dead of night, in the soft moonlight, In his garden bower--he lay; And the dew of sleep, did his eyelids steep In the arms of his leman gay.
"And by murderous hand, and bloody brand, In that guilty bower-- With his paramour, Did his sowle from his body fleet, And through mist and mirk, and moonlight gray, Was forc’d away from the bleeding clay, To the dreaded judgment seat."
[7] This is proved by an inquest taken at Hilton in that year. _Cf._ Bishop Swaby’s _History of the Hiltons of Hilton Castle_, p. 39.
[8] _The River-Names of Europe_, pp. 33, 34.
[9] Pudsey commenced to build a Lady Chapel at the east end of the church which, as was said, St. Cuthbert shook down.
[10] About the year 1800 the whole cathedral underwent a process of chiselling, in order to render the surface uniform. This was done under the superintendence of Wyatt, and in some parts four inches in depth were removed by the operation. The evidence of this is apparent in several places on the north side of the choir and nave, where, in consequence of the soil having accumulated several feet in height, that part of the building has escaped being pared down. What has been the result is shown there in the nook shafts of the arcade, which have been reduced from a due proportion to one most inadequate.
[11] It is possible that Basire, whose words are rather curious, simply means that he destroyed the chapels. He speaks of them as "being blown up by Sir Arthur Haslerig in the Gunpowder Plot of the late Rebellion."
[12] Some years before 1834, when Mackenzie wrote, a portion of it had been "converted into a respectable and substantial house," and was then the residence of Mr. Henry Morton, Lord Durham’s agent. In or about 1875 the house underwent further changes, and has now for many years been known as Lambton Grange. There is, however, another building in the Park, locally known as the old Hall, and at one time used as a brewery, which may represent some intermediate residence.
[13] The above account of Lambton Castle is abridged from an address given by the late Henry Leighton of Lambton Grange, when acting as chairman at the dinner given to the workmen on the completion of the restoration of Lambton Castle, January 18, 1868.
[14] A somewhat similar building is at Bale Hill, near Wolsingham.
[15] A considerable portion of the Tower fell in February, 1890, leaving portions of the west and south walls still standing.
[16] So Surtees sayeth. _A falcon on a tun_ was the family crest.
[17] The tablet in the church which Surtees noted to the memory of William James has disappeared. There is a large marble tablet on the north wall to the memory of James Brack and his three wives, which reads rather curiously owing to the major portion of the inscriptions having been raised and the panel containing his name inserted last. At the foot the family arms have been emblazoned, a scarlet shield, having apparently a passant lion of the same colour on a silver chief, and impaling the sable shield with the engrailed fess and silver hands of the Bates. The colours are badly rubbed and will not survive many more cleanings.
[18] The late Mr. Boyle described the house as "ugly," an opinion we cannot agree with. If not beautiful, it is certainly a handsome old building.
[19] The writer of this chapter would be very grateful if any reader who should chance to know where the other letters are would communicate with him.
[20] See _Dictionary of National Biography_, for Canon Dale, vol. xiii.; for Thomas Pelham Dale, _ibid._, supplement, vol. ii.
[21] The descendants of George Dale, the elder brother of Ralph Dale, this Edward Dale’s great grandfather, were apparently extinct in the male line by 1750, although George Dale, by his marriage with Elizabeth, daughter of John Lively, Vicar of Kelloe, 1625-56, had at least three sons alive in March, 1655-56--namely, Edward, John, and Anthony.
[22] See the paper on John Lawrence in vol. iv. of the Proceedings of the Sunderland Antiquarian Society.
[23] The letter has appeared in a privately printed magazine, the _Family News_. See British Museum catalogue, under "Periodicals: Northwood."
[24] See _A Christian Sketch of Lady Maxwell_, by Robert Bourne. London, 1819.
[25] When he was in America, he had proposed to and been rejected by a Miss Hopkey in 1757, and in 1748 he had been engaged to a Miss Murray, so that his opinion of the advantage of celibacy had known some variation.
[26] See _Dictionary of National Biography_, vol. ii.
[27] Their early pedigree has been printed in detail by the Rev. William Greenwell in the seventh volume of the _New History of Northumberland_. Their later descents have been fully dealt with, so far as Raby and this county are concerned, by Surtees. It therefore seems needless, in a limited volume like this, to retrace their fortunes already so well traced. See also an interesting account of the family by another local writer in _The House of Neville in Sunshine and Shade_.
[28] For an interesting note upon the Eures, rather apt to be overlooked, see the _Archæological Journal_, 1860, p. 218. The family motto was _Vince malum bono_.
[29] Readers interested in the Visitations should read Mr. George Grazebrooke’s very interesting introduction to the Harleian Society’s _Visitation of Shropshire_, 1623 (vol. xxviii.). Commenting upon a similar state of affairs in that county, he says: "Such names shew that although it is very pleasant to a family to find their descents duly recorded, still the absence of their name altogether from the list is no proof whatever that their social position and heraldic rights were not all the time perfectly well assured."