[12] Some years before 1834, when Mackenzie wrote, a portion of it had been "converted into a respectable and substantial house," and was then the residence of Mr. Henry Morton, Lord Durham’s agent. In or about 1875 the house underwent further changes, and has now for many years been known as Lambton Grange. There is, however, another building in the Park, locally known as the old Hall, and at one time used as a brewery, which may represent some intermediate residence. [13] The above account of Lambton Castle is abridged from an address given by the late Henry Leighton of Lambton Grange, when acting as chairman at the dinner given to the workmen on the completion of the restoration of Lambton Castle, January 18, 1868. [14] A somewhat similar building is at Bale Hill, near Wolsingham. [15] A considerable portion of the Tower fell in February, 1890, leaving portions of the west and south walls still standing. [16] So Surtees sayeth. _A falcon on a tun_ was the family crest. [17] The tablet in the church which Surtees noted to the memory of William James has disappeared. There is a large marble tablet on the north wall to the memory of James Brack and his three wives, which reads rather curiously owing to the major portion of the inscriptions having been raised and the panel containing his name inserted last. At the foot the family arms have been emblazoned, a scarlet shield, having apparently a passant lion of the same colour on a silver chief, and impaling the sable shield with the engrailed fess and silver hands of the Bates. The colours are badly rubbed and will not survive many more cleanings. [18] The late Mr. Boyle described the house as "ugly," an opinion we cannot agree with. If not beautiful, it is certainly a handsome old building. [19] The writer of this chapter would be very grateful if any reader who should chance to know where the other letters are would communicate with him. [20] See _Dictionary of National Biography_, for Canon Dale, vol. xiii.; for Thomas Pelham Dale, _ibid._, supplement, vol. ii. [21] The descendants of George Dale, the elder brother of Ralph Dale, this Edward Dale’s great grandfather, were apparently extinct in the male line by 1750, although George Dale, by his marriage with Elizabeth, daughter of John Lively, Vicar of Kelloe, 1625-56, had at least three sons alive in March, 1655-56--namely, Edward, John, and Anthony. [22] See the paper on John Lawrence in vol. iv. of the Proceedings of the Sunderland Antiquarian Society. [23] The letter has appeared in a privately printed magazine, the _Family News_. See British Museum catalogue, under "Periodicals: Northwood." [24] See _A Christian Sketch of Lady Maxwell_, by Robert Bourne. London, 1819. [25] When he was in America, he had proposed to and been rejected by a Miss Hopkey in 1757, and in 1748 he had been engaged to a Miss Murray, so that his opinion of the advantage of celibacy had known some variation.