The magazine of American history with notes and queries . i^^^^^^yJo^ FAC-SIMILE OF ENTRY IN DOMESDAY BOOK, A. D. 1086.(Earliest record of the Manor of Cleburne.) succinctly described him as a villain and Judas Iscariot, and themodern historians have dutifully followed and adopted the same view ofhim. Mr. Burk, losing his head as usual, calls him an unprincipled in- The name is variously spelled Cleburne, Claiborne, Cleyburne, and Clayborne. The last isthe spelling of the old records, in Hening and elsewhere, and seems now to be established, whetherit is right or wrong. He himself seems to hav
The magazine of American history with notes and queries . i^^^^^^yJo^ FAC-SIMILE OF ENTRY IN DOMESDAY BOOK, A. D. 1086.(Earliest record of the Manor of Cleburne.) succinctly described him as a villain and Judas Iscariot, and themodern historians have dutifully followed and adopted the same view ofhim. Mr. Burk, losing his head as usual, calls him an unprincipled in- The name is variously spelled Cleburne, Claiborne, Cleyburne, and Clayborne. The last isthe spelling of the old records, in Hening and elsewhere, and seems now to be established, whetherit is right or wrong. He himself seems to have signed Claiborne. CLAYBORNE 37 cendiary and execrable villain. Mr. Howison informs us that he was aturbulent character who had been tried and found guilty of murder andsedition ; worthy Dr. Hawks, the Church historian, styles him a felon con-vict who had escaped from justice ; various writers a pirate; the malignant Clayborne ; and even excellent Chief JusticeMarshall has his fling at the unlucky rebel as the Evil Genius of Mary-. CLEBURNE CHURCH AND RECTORY. land. It is not difficult, from these phrases, to discover the impressionsof the historians. The man was a wretch guilty of piracy and managed to die in his bed without paying for his crimes, but that wasall the more reason for gibbeting him in history. It is necessary to say that the Rebel was not nearly as black as he hasbeen painted. He was not an exemplary character to be held up in allthings as a model to youth, but his real portrait was very different fromthat painted by his hostile critics. They plainly regard him as a low-born adventurer, but he had not that excuse for any of his father, Edmund Cleburne, of Cleburne Hall, was a member of theEnglish gentry, and married a daughter of Sir Alan Bellingham, who isdescribed as a woman of the greatest piety, of unconquerable energyand patience, sparing of her words, and full of the greatest charity to-ward the poor. Her s
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