Hilyard, or Hildyard, of Pattrington.] our family took its rise.

But under these Norman barons we sank with the nation to which we belonged.

Still were we called gentlemen, and still were dubbed knights.

But as I grew up to man's estate, I felt myself more Saxon than gentleman, and, as one of a subject and vassal race, I was a son of the Saxon people.

My father, like thee, was a man of thought and bookcraft.