. The Redmans of Levens and Harewood : a contribution to the history of the Levens family of Redman and Redmayne in many of its branches . ces of theirfortunes tumble down and their broad acres pass into thehands of strangers. However far the pendulum mayswing, it must inevitably return ; and with subjects aswith Kings the day of great things must sooner or laterbe merged in night. The wonder is that the Redmansheld their own so long, rather than that the hour of theireclipse ever came. They saw many a family rise to powerand prosperity as great as theirs, only to sink before theminto obscurit
. The Redmans of Levens and Harewood : a contribution to the history of the Levens family of Redman and Redmayne in many of its branches . ces of theirfortunes tumble down and their broad acres pass into thehands of strangers. However far the pendulum mayswing, it must inevitably return ; and with subjects aswith Kings the day of great things must sooner or laterbe merged in night. The wonder is that the Redmansheld their own so long, rather than that the hour of theireclipse ever came. They saw many a family rise to powerand prosperity as great as theirs, only to sink before theminto obscurity; and they might well have thought thattheir own day of reckoning would never dawn. We have seen how and when it came ; and we neednot pursue their history farther. Although the bloodof the old Redman knights flows in the veins of many ofour greatest nobles of to-day, the bearers of the name nolonger fill high places. Many of them, however, are pros-pering greatly ; and it may well be that at no far future when this darkness is overpast, the sun of the familyfortunes may shine again as bravely as ever it did in thedays of Redman Qdarteking the Great Chamber of Harewood Castle, 1584. ms APPENDIX. WILL OF SIR MATTHEW, III. (p. 56). In nomine Dei, amen. Ego Mathius de Redmane de Kendallmiles condo testaraentum meum in tiunc modum. Imprimis do etlego animam meam Deo et beate Marie et omnibus Sanctis et corpusad sepeliendum in ecclesia beati Peter de Heversham et meliusmeum animal nomine mortuarii mei ibidem. Item do et lego omniabona mea mobilia et immobilia videlicet equos boves vaccas etomnimodo alia averia mea ac eciam oves multones hog gastros(lambs after the first year) meos masculos et femellas> ac eciamomnia blada mea cujus cunque generis fuerint una cum omnibus etomnimodis utensilibus domus mee ubicunque fuerint inventa Mar-garete uxori mee ita quod ipsa post mortem meam Mbere ad libitumsuum disponat et ordinet de eisdem pro anima mea prout meliu
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