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The gallery of family portraits at Pulwick is one of the most remarkable features of that ancient house.
It was a custom firmly established at the Priory -- ever since the first heralds' visitation in Lancashire, when some mooted point of claims to certain quarterings had been cleared in an unexpected way by the testimony of a well-authenticated ancestral portrait -- for each successive representative to add to the collection. One of the first cares of every Landale, therefore, on succeeding to the title was to be painted, with his proper armorial and otherwise distinguishing honours jealously delineated, and thus hung in the place of honour over the high mantelshelf of the gallery -- displacing on the occasion his own immediate and revered predecessor.