Memories of a School Inspector

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Excerpt from Memories of a School Inspector: Thirty-Five Years in Lancashire and Suffolk I come of a very old Saxon stock. "The Louthers and Swinburnes and Featherstonhaughs Against the Norman waged the wars" runs an old ballad carefully preserved by the members of one branch of the family, by whom it was handed to me, "The eminent house of Swinburne, " says Burke in his "History of the landed gentry" (Note p. 71), "is amongst the most ancient in the kingdon, deriving from the flower of the nobility of Europe, and bearing no less than eighty-six quarterings on its shield. It enumerates as lineal progenitors, the early Kings of England, the Percies (including Hotspur), the Nevilles, all the Greys, the Willoughby, D'Eresbys, the Warrens, Howards, Cliffords, Vescies, Mortimers, FitzHughs, FitzAlans, FitzWalters, Radcliffes, the Bohuns, Vauxes, Dacres of the North, Widvilles, De Ross, De la Poles, Mowbrays, Beauchamps, etc., etc. It is worthy of note that eighteen out of the twenty-five, barons who wrenched Magna Charta from King John were direct lineal ancestors of the Swinburnes." So great, independent, and impartial an authority, as Burke - himself a baronet, and holding a high post in the Heralds' Office - is not to be despised, and in these days one comes across so many woud be descendants of royalty (Edward the first preerred) that it seems advisable to start with Burke's own note, a parallel of which it is not easy to find, even in pages addicted to laudation, as peerages, etc., are apt to be. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.