Hereward; the Saxon patriot: a history of his life and character; with a record of his ancestors and descendants, AD445 to AD1896 . nostra voco. Ovid. Respectable ancestors, hard things to buy,To order are made, or filched on the sly. See Heralds^ Visitations, 1551-85. NCESTORS, however illustrious, are in nosense individual property. Their noblequalities are left to us to maintain andexemplify in our own time, and to distributeas widely as possible. Far is it from ourintention to confine or monopolize the Here-ward pedigree, but history, whether family ornational, requires a thorough sifting
Hereward; the Saxon patriot: a history of his life and character; with a record of his ancestors and descendants, AD445 to AD1896 . nostra voco. Ovid. Respectable ancestors, hard things to buy,To order are made, or filched on the sly. See Heralds^ Visitations, 1551-85. NCESTORS, however illustrious, are in nosense individual property. Their noblequalities are left to us to maintain andexemplify in our own time, and to distributeas widely as possible. Far is it from ourintention to confine or monopolize the Here-ward pedigree, but history, whether family ornational, requires a thorough sifting of alleged facts, especiallywhen they rest on insecure and inaccurate foundations. It is not our desire to attempt to decide upon the manyclaims which have been made to consanguinity with theHereward family. Such claims should rest upon their ownmerits. We wish to discuss those claims as impartially asothers which we have proved to be well-established, and weshall be prepared to give the same prominence to any state-ment in support of them. We now give a list of suchclaimants who have come under our notice, with prima facie 8. 58 Herewardi Arbor Gentis, f Harewood. Harwood. Haywood. (HORWODE. \ Whorwooi). ( Haward. Howard. Temple. Wake. evidence why we consider their claims to be badly foundedand inadmissible. Whilst some of the claimants endeavour to connect them-selves with Hereward, others, still more lost in the clouds ofhistoric doubt, hold themselves allied to Leofric, whom theycall Earl of Chester or Leicester, no doubt referring to thegreat Earl of Mercia in the time of Edward the Confessor,the father of Alfgar of East Anglia, and of Hereward therenowned.^ The names here given in the margin are nearly all sub-sequent to the Norman Conquest, and we hold that theyare not only doubtful claimants of the lineage of Hereward,but that it is impossible to prove they even belonged to thesame family. Some of these names represent branches invarious
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