Sir William, the fourth Baronet, married a sister of Mrs. Lambton, of Lambton, and co-heiress of John Hedworth, of Harraton, whose wife was a descendant of William James, sometime Bishop of Durham. Whitburn Hall has for several generations been the family residence, and the present Baronet is the ninth. Lord Boyne’s family are only recent settlers in Durham, and came here when Brancepeth Castle passed to the seventh Viscount upon his marriage with an heiress of the Russells. They have been Barons of Brancepeth since 1866. Other old families still existent in the shire who should at least be mentioned are the Pembertons[32] of Belmont Hall, the Wilkinsons of Durham, the Fogg-Elliots of Elvet Hill, the Bateses of Wolsingham, the Trotters of Helmdon, and the Hutchinsons. The Claverings of Axwell, a noble old race, have within the last few years died out in the male line, but the name and blood continue in the present owners of the old home. Descendants of other old families doubtless linger on: Byerleys and Fawcetts, Darnells and Croudaces, Muschamps and Emersons, Morgans and Marleys, Ewbankes and Raines, Rippons and Maddisons, and many another race, inheriting to the full the traditions of our country, are to be found scattered up and down the county. INDEX Abbey, Durham, 158 ---- of Durham dissolved, 16 Acre, 107 Agnes’s Fast, St., 53 Alanshields of Alanshields, 249 Aldhun, Bishop, 109 "All Fools’ Day," 57 Alston, 41 Altars at Bolihope, Roman, 80 Altar-screen, Durham, 121-122, 138 Altar-tomb, Neville, 170 ---- of Bernard Gilpin, 194, 195 Amiatinus, the Codex, 151 Anglo-Saxon memorial crosses, 183 Arms, Greenwell, 225 ---- Lumley, 242 Associations of John Wesley, Durham, 229-238 Asylum, Sunderland Orphan, 35 Auckland, brasses in St. Andrew’s, 180, 189 ---- brass in St. Helen’s, 180, 190 Aucklandshire, 39 Aycliffe Church, 171 Baker, Mrs. Sarah, 194 Bale Hill, 218 Balliol, Bernard de, 213 ---- John, sometime King of Scotland, 213 Ballads, Robert Surtees’, 65 Bank, 105 Barbara, Bishop William de St., 30 Barnard Castle, 40, 213 ---- ---- Church, 170, 185 Barnes, Mrs. Fridesmond, 189 Baronial houses, 239 Barons of the Bishopric, 3, 11 Barrow at Copt Hill, 182 Bateses of Wolsingham, 256 Battle of Neville’s Cross, 41 Baydale inn, 24 Bayley, K. C., 7 Beaumont, Lewis, Bishop-elect of Durham, 27, 28 Bede, Venerable, 4, 36 ---- at Monkwearmouth and Jarrow, 146-151 Bede’s chair, Jarrow, 54 ---- tomb, 123 ---- Well, Monkton, 55 Bellasis, 218 Bell, Durham Curfew, 63 ---- Pancake, 56 Billingham Church, 172 Binchester, Roman camp at, 4 ---- Roman epitaph at, 183 Birthdays folk-lore, 46 Biscop, Benedict, 4, 36, 147, 149, 150 Bishop Aldhun, 109 ---- Auckland, 39 ---- ---- Palace, 200 ---- Cosin, 20, 120, 179 ---- Crewe, 21, 204 ---- Flambard, 8, 40, 118, 133 ---- James, 206 ---- Middleham, 222 ---- ---- Church, 180 ---- Philip de Pictavia, 172