[In the MS. the name was first written "Childe Burun."]

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[William, fifth Lord Byron (the poet's grand-uncle), mortally wounded his kinsman, Mr Chaworth, in a duel which was fought, without seconds or witnesses, at the Star and Garter Tavern, Pall Mall, January 29, 1765. He was convicted of wilful murder by the coroner's jury, and of manslaughter by the House of Lords; but, pleading his privilege as a peer, he was set at liberty. He was known to the country-side as the "wicked Lord," and many tales, true and apocryphal, were told to his discredit (Lije of Lord Byron, by Karl Elze, 1872, pp. 5, 6.)]