[26] See _Dictionary of National Biography_, vol. ii. [27] Their early pedigree has been printed in detail by the Rev. William Greenwell in the seventh volume of the _New History of Northumberland_. Their later descents have been fully dealt with, so far as Raby and this county are concerned, by Surtees. It therefore seems needless, in a limited volume like this, to retrace their fortunes already so well traced. See also an interesting account of the family by another local writer in _The House of Neville in Sunshine and Shade_. [28] For an interesting note upon the Eures, rather apt to be overlooked, see the _Archæological Journal_, 1860, p. 218. The family motto was _Vince malum bono_. [29] Readers interested in the Visitations should read Mr. George Grazebrooke’s very interesting introduction to the Harleian Society’s _Visitation of Shropshire_, 1623 (vol. xxviii.). Commenting upon a similar state of affairs in that county, he says: "Such names shew that although it is very pleasant to a family to find their descents duly recorded, still the absence of their name altogether from the list is no proof whatever that their social position and heraldic rights were not all the time perfectly well assured." [30] The origin of the Greenwells may be compared with an interesting paper upon "Clerical Celibacy in the Diocese of Carlisle," by the Rev. James Wilson, in _Northern Notes and Queries_, 1906, p. 1. [31] Another descent of the Blacketts from the Conyers has been pointed out by the late Mr. Cadwallader Bates. _Cf._ his Letters, p. 124. [32] The Pemberton descent given in Burke’s _Landed Gentry_ needs correction. _Cf._ Foster’s _Visitations of Durham_, p. 251, footnote 2. Typographical errors corrected by the etext transcriber: The Church from the North-west, Finchale Priory 136=> The Church from the North-west, Finchale Priory 139 {pg xii} frequently occuring Celtic=> frequently occurring Celtic {pg 87} the orginal chancel=> the original chancel {pg 173}