{"id":5673,"date":"2012-08-28T23:56:34","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T20:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=5673"},"modified":"2012-08-28T23:56:34","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T20:56:34","slug":"ratcliffe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2012\/08\/28\/ratcliffe\/","title":{"rendered":"Ratcliffe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An amusing little bit of additional evidence, re: my recent essay that uncovers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2012\/08\/26\/new-key-source-for-the-rats-in-the-walls\/\">a key source for &#8220;The Rats in the Walls&#8221;<\/a>.  &#8216;Viscount Ratcliff&#8217; was one of the titles belonging to Dilston, and Ratcliffe was the family name of James Ratcliffe, Earl of Derwentwater&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/dilston-footnote.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"dilston-footnote\" width=\"498\" height=\"123\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5674\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; from William Berr&#8217;s <em>Encyclopaedia heraldica or complete dictionary of heraldry, Volume 2<\/em> (1828)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/dilston2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"dilston2\" width=\"278\" height=\"241\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5675\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; from Stephen Whatley&#8217;s <em>England&#8217;s Gazetteer<\/em> (1751)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/dilston3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"dilston3\" width=\"472\" height=\"46\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5676\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; from Thomas Rose&#8217;s <em>Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham, and Northumberland<\/em> (1832)<\/p>\n<p>There is also a tantalising note from <em>Notes and Queries<\/em> of 1914, perhaps relevant to the idea of some long-absent descendant coming to claim Exham Priory, but I am unable to get more&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;the following extracts from <em>The Times<\/em> and contemporary journals:\u2014 &#8221; Great excitement was caused at Hexham and the western parts of Northumberland on Tuesday by a lady who claims to be a descendant of Ratcliffe &#8230; The lady first appeared upon the scene &#8230; in 1865, and a year or so later took possession of Dilston more or &#8230; to be a descendant of Ratcliffe, the last Earl of Derwentwater, taking possession of Dilston Castle, about three miles from Hexham, and claiming all the estates once belonging to that unfortunate [Earl]&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An amusing little bit of additional evidence, re: my recent essay that uncovers a key source for &#8220;The Rats in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2012\/08\/28\/ratcliffe\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context","category-new-discoveries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}