Note 29 — THE OLD FAMILIES OF DURHAM By Henry R. Leighton

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."