Poems on domestic circumstances ; containing 'Fare thee well', 'A sketch from private life', and ... other ... poems. To which are prefixed memoirs of the life of the author ... / by the Rev. J. Nightingale.

  • Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824
Date:
1816
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    four bovates of land in Bengeley, in the county of York; and, in Borgescire, he held in Dunsthorpe, four bovates of land, &c.” He had also considerable landed property in various other places in the same county: about thirty-four estates are enumerated there, besides about twenty-five in Lincolnshire. Halph de Huron, a relation, (of what affinity is not known) of the above, held divers manors in Nottinghamshire, and Devon¬ shire. Ralph is the direct ancestor of the present Lord Byron In Horseley Park, Derbyshire, there are still visible, the re¬ mains of a castle, called Iloreston Castle*, which was the chief mansion of his successors. Lord*Byron, in his beautiful lines on leaving Newstcad Abbey, thus alludes to one of his ancestors: “ No more doth old Bobert, with harp-stringing numbers, Raise a flame in the breast for the war-laurel’d wreath; Near Askelon’s towers, John of Horeston slumbers, Unnerv’d is the hand of his minstrel in death.”f r Hugh de Huron succeeded the above named Ralph, as Lord of the castle of liorastom In the 9th year of King Stephen, in con¬ junction with Hugh, hi son and heir, he gave the church of Oscinton, to the monastrey of Lenton. There was a dispute about this, in the 7th of Kichard I. with the friars of the hospital of St. John of Jerusalem.I Hugh de Huron, Huron of Horeston, succeeded the above. In the reign of Henry II. he retired from the world, and professing himself a monk, held the hermitage of Kersale, belonging to the priory of Lenton. He left issue, Sir Roger de Huron, who married Nichola, daughter of Roeland de Yerdon, who survived * Thoroton’s Nottingham, p. 260. *, The whole of this beautiful poem the reader will find in this edition. i Placita a-fud Westm A. 7 It. T. Rot.