[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}