The lady's maid herself, Mrs.Mimms, says she was sent before them to Halnaby, and was there to receive them when they alighted.
He said of Lady Byron's mother, 'She always detested me, and had not the decency to conceal it in her own house.

Dining with her one day, I broke a tooth, and was in great pain; which I could not help showing.

"It will do you good," said Lady Noel; "I am glad of it!"' Lady Byron says, speaking of her mother, 'She always treated him with an affectionate consideration and indulgence, which extended to every little peculiarity of his feelings.

Never did an irritating word escape her.' Lord Byron states that the correspondence between him and Lady Byron, after his refusal, was first opened by her.

Lady Byron's friends deny the statement, and assert that the direct contrary is the fact.
Thus we see that Lord Byron's statements are directly opposed to those of his family in relation to his father; directly against Murray's accounts, and his own admission to Murray; directly against the statement of the lady's maid as to her position in the journey; directly against Mrs.
Leigh's as to Mrs.Clermont, and against Lady Byron as to her mother.
We can see, also, that these misstatements were so fully perceived by the men of his times, that Medwin's 'Conversations' were simply laughed at as an amusing instance of how far a man might be made the victim of a mystification.