The magazine of American history with notes and queries . r of being recorded I \in Domesday Book. In every genera-tion they had struck hard blows—from the Norman knight, the brother in arms of the Earl of Richmond, who THE LETTERS ARE CUT IN THE STChNE AND ARE MUCH WEATHER- was the princeps, to the latter- worn; they read as follows : day Cleburnesof the sixteenth „ r, ra ,~rD ^u,,?^*^ mrr* / ft) century who raided beyond the Tweed, as their ancestors Cai)rf//A/-MrrYME AtH ^>s^asa-YBHAclhad done under Duke William THb ,Y£a kz , of. our . loao . in 1072. When not engaged
The magazine of American history with notes and queries . r of being recorded I \in Domesday Book. In every genera-tion they had struck hard blows—from the Norman knight, the brother in arms of the Earl of Richmond, who THE LETTERS ARE CUT IN THE STChNE AND ARE MUCH WEATHER- was the princeps, to the latter- worn; they read as follows : day Cleburnesof the sixteenth „ r, ra ,~rD ^u,,?^*^ mrr* / ft) century who raided beyond the Tweed, as their ancestors Cai)rf//A/-MrrYME AtH ^>s^asa-YBHAclhad done under Duke William THb ,Y£a kz , of. our . loao . in 1072. When not engaged ,\- \^bj > in settling a misunderstand-ing with somebody, the Lords of Cleburne reveled or hunted. Wine andwassail were the order of the day, and the woods along the Eden rangwith bugles. As each lord succumbed to fate and went to sleep under theshadow of the little St. Cuthbert chapel, another Cleburne succeeded him,and the revelry went on as before—until finally there were no more Cle-burnes of Cleburne Hall, and the place was a arms and inscription over entrance tocleburne hall. 86 CLAYBORNE THE REBEL It would not possess much interest for American readers in the nine-teenth century but for a single circumstance. The hard-fighting Cleburneswould have quite disappeared from history but for the fact that they hadone famous representative. It chanced in their case, as it has chanced inothers, that a single individual has rescued them from oblivion. In theseventeenth century a personage of their name blazed out suddenly andattracted all eyes. By sheer force of brains and a stubborn will he linkedhimself with history, rose from obscurity to be one of the great figuresof his time, and quite eclipses all the Cleburnes of all the generationsbefore and after him. This man, who has made the old cradle of his race in the Westmorelandwoods so interesting, was William Cleburne, orClayborne as the world nowcalls him,* the famous u Rebel. His enemies insisted upon t
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