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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."
[30] The origin of the Greenwells may be compared with an interesting
paper upon "Clerical Celibacy in the Diocese of Carlisle," by the Rev.
James Wilson, in _Northern Notes and Queries_, 1906, p. 1.
[31] Another descent of the Blacketts from the Conyers has been pointed
out by the late Mr. Cadwallader Bates. _Cf._ his Letters, p. 124.
[32] The Pemberton descent given in Burke’s _Landed Gentry_ needs
correction. _Cf._ Foster’s _Visitations of Durham_, p. 251, footnote 2.
Typographical errors corrected by the etext transcriber:
The Church from the North-west, Finchale Priory 136=> The Church from
the North-west, Finchale Priory 139 {pg xii}
frequently occuring Celtic=> frequently occurring Celtic {pg 87}
the orginal chancel=> the original chancel {pg 173}