Xii The P R E F A C E. 



Galleley for a hiftory of Northumberland (h) ; but I do not find 

 that any thing was done farther than a GENEALOGY of the family, 

 properly attefted by records and inquifitions poft mortem, drawn 

 up by Sir William Dugdale, Norroy, king at arms, at the ex- 

 pence of Sir John Wavering, Kt. living in 1617, with whom 



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it ends (tj. 



The late John Warburton^ Efq; Somerfet herald, made large 

 colle&ions, refpe&ing this county. They are now in the pof- 

 feffion of his Grace the Duke of Northumberland ; of which 

 I have had the perufal by his Grace's favour. 



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I have illuftrated the baronial honours, tenures, and feudal 

 property, not from vague and uncertain teftimony, but from au- 

 thorities of the higheft pre-eminence in the kingdom ; from 

 the Rotuli Ann ales returned into the Exchequer by the fherifFs, 

 and that grand record, the 7*y?# de Nevill; from Rymers Ft&- 

 dera y from the acl:s of the legislature, and from the decisions 

 of the moft eminent antiquaries and civilians; from royal 

 charters, family- records and monumental infcriptions* 



ittrjbi! 

 (b) Bifliop Gibfons Preface to Ca?ndcn r & Britannia* 



(i) Sub Thulo* 



Claveringiante familiae antiquiffimaj et nobiliflunae inEJJexia et Nov- 

 thim&ria florentis ftemma. Ex archivis regiis, vetuftis regiftris r aliifque 

 venerandse antiquitatis monumentis, dedudtum et delineatum r Per Gu- 

 lielmum Dugdakf regem armorum cognomento Norroy* 





