Volume 3

A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank but uninvested with heritable honours / by John Burke.

  • Burke, John, 1787-1848.
Date:
1833-1838
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Credit: A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank but uninvested with heritable honours / by John Burke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Motto—Favente Deo. Estates—Shawdon, Titlington, West Bol- n, Lemmington, Hoppen, West Byker, in orthumberland. Coal mines, at Jarrow, i the county of Durham, and an estate at ! irbywiske, in Yorkshire, which has des- mded, in a right line, to the present pro- rietor from the 3rd of Henry V. anno 115. / Seats — Shawdon Hall, Lemmington ower, and Titlington Hall, in Northum- erland. Shawdon Hall is situated in the fertile a!e formed by the river Alne, in the parish f Whittinghara, Northumberland, and built i 1779, by the late William Hargrave, esq. early on the site of the ancient castle of diawdon, described as one of the border ortresses. The house is approached from iie east and west lodges through an avenue f majestic elms, terminated by a row of ariegated hollies, which, for beauty and magnificence, are allowed to be the first in he kingdom, several of them being more than fifty feet in height, and their trunks nine feet in circumference. Upon the ad- joining hills are the remains of two Roman camps ; several cavins likewise afford evi- dence of more remote antiquity; some of them have been opened, and found to con- tain urns of unbaked clay, on which was traced a rude pattern, and enclosing human bones and ashes. Silver coins of Robert Bruce, David of Scotland, and the Edwards of England, have been occasionally found, together with a gold rose noble of Edward I. in beautiful preservation. Shawdon is a manor in itself, the court rolls and entries of suit and service to which are extant for some centuries back. The lords of the do- main had once possessed the power of exe- cuting malefactors within their own boun- daries, and a tree, which bears the appella- tion of the Hangman’s Oak, is yet pointed out, beneath which, a few years ago, were discovered the remains of fourteen persons, who had there probably suffered the penalty of their crimes. MACLEOD, OF CADBOLL. 4ACLEOD, ROBERT-BRUCE-TENEAS, esq. of Cadboll, in the county of Cro- marty, and of Invergordon Castle, in Ross-sliire, b. in Ja- nuary, 1764, m. in 1784, Elizabeth, daughter of Alexander Macleod, esq. of Harris, and has had issue, Roderick, b. in 1786, M.P. for the county of Suther- land, lord-lieutenant of the county of Cromarty, and deputy-lieutenant of Ross-shire, m. in 1813, Isabella, daughter of William Cunninghame, esq. of Lainshow, in Ayrshire, and has two sons and two daughters, viz. Robert-Bruce-AEneas. Henry-Dunning. Margaret-Elizabeth. Anna-Maria. Sophia, l Elizabeth-Lillia, > unm* Mr. Macleod succeeded his father in 1770. He was, formerly, representative in parliament for Cromarty, and was constituted lord-lieutenant for that shire when the office was first instituted in Scotland, anno 1 794. He re- signed in 1833. He is a deputy-lieutenant for Ross-shire. Hmeage. It is acknowledged universally that the Vlacleodso/ Scotland, sprang from the Nor- wegian Kings of Man, of which monarchs ie following is a brief narrative, as re- •orded m the Chronicle of the Island, pub- ished with Cambden’s Britannia, anno 1586. i. Godfred, surnamed Crowan, son of Harold, the Jilaeh, being ap- pointed sovereign of Man, and the Western Isles, by Harold, the Im- perious, came with a fleet, and army, and took possession of his kingdom,