Excerpt from Godfrey Merivale Being a Portion of His History
The original home of the Merivales, in which, indeed, it had been their extravagant boast that they were autochthonous, was the county of Yorkshire. Here was the spreading theatre of their earlier achievements, mainly displayed in those days by raid and tourney of arms, and by a constant expansion of territory in the Ridings. They were a formidable family in feudal times, could bring into the field a small army, and cut their way, by one means or another - but chiefly by violence - into some position at Court. What broke them, as most houses of the kind were broken, was the long civil war which ended in the accession of the first Tudor sovereign. They were, of necessity, White, and shared in the fall of the Yorkists so thoroughly that Sir Edward Merivale, of Pontrack, the head of the house, found himself left with little more than bare acres, a smoking castle, and his own worthless life. Yet with that descent upon misfortune and indignity the family entered upon a new career. Keeps and castles, raids and forays were out of date; lands stretched green before fine mansions, and formal gardens grew where moat and dyke had been.
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