Viscount Chaworth, whose daughter Elizabeth was married to William, third Lord Byron (d. 1605), the poet's great-great-grandfather. The duel between their grand-uncles, William, fifth Lord Byron, and William Chaworth, Esq., of Annesley, was fought between eight and nine o'clock in the evening of Saturday, January 26, 1765, at the Star and Garter Tavern, Pall Mall. Mr Chaworth was killed, and Lord Byron, who was tried by the House of Lords, was found "not guilty of murder, guilty of manslaughter." The result of this verdict was that Lord Byron claimed the benefit of the statute of Edward VI., and was discharged on paying the fees.]

[Byron says that his great-uncle, "so far from feeling any remorse for having killed Mr Chaworth, who was a fire-eater (spadassin), he always kept the sword. in his bedchamber, where it still was when he died."] [Ralph de Burun held Horestan Castle and other manors from the Conqueror. Byron's mother was descended from James I. of Scotland.]

For land to land, even blood to blood Since leagued of yore our fathers

were

Our manors and our birthright stood; And not unequal had I wooed,

If to have wooed thee I could dare. But this I never dared even yet When nought is left but to forget,

I feel that I could only love:
To sue was never meant for me,
And least of all to sue to thee;
For many a bar, and many a feud,
Though never told, well understood

Rolled like a river wide betweenAnd then there was the Curse of blood, Which even my Heart's cannot re