Identifier: magazineofamericv10n2stev (find matches)
Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ARCH OF DOORWAY— CLEBURNE HALL, 15TH CENTURY. dates back as far as the first years of the twelfth century. It is dedicatedto St. Cuthbert, who was, first, Prior of Melrose, then Monk of Lindisfarneor the Holy Island, and finally founder and Bishop of Durham—themost famous of the north country saints. The church has a rectoryattached to it, as religious services are still held in it, and is spoken of byGrose as among the antiquities worthy of notice in Westmoreland. Inthe north wall of the chancel is a beautiful circular Norman window ;another of stained glass is in honor of Patrick Romayne Cleburne, a well-known General of the Confederate army; and a third decoration is a Vol. X —No. 2.—7 84 CLAYBORNE THE REBEL r 4 v r%:^ sAv* ;;,<<.— :^o
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■Sfi* CLAYBORNE THE REBEL 85 Leper window, said to be one of the few in England. The entrance tothe chapel is by an arched doorway, covered, like the edifice, with ivy ; oldtombstones are scattered through the grounds ; a little rivulet at the footof the hill steals away toward the Eden; and south and west rise themountains of the Lake Region, the most picturesque in England. The ruins are those of Cleburne Hall, a spot connected with the memoryof a remarkable man. The house was built in 1567 on the site of onemuch older, the castle or Pele of Cleburne, time out of mind the head-quarters of the Lords of Cleburne,Bampton, Cundale and Kyne. Theserural seigneurs of the north marcheswere hard-headed people, always at warwith their neighbors the Scots. Theylived the turbulent lives of the old feudalbarons, made forays across the border,were regularly harried in their turn, andkept their energies from rusting by takingpart in all the fighting which came intheir direction. Their blue blood

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