Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green

If you will refer to the unpublished volume of Burke's Landed Gentry, and turn to letter G, article Green, you will see that the Verdant Greens are a family of some respectability and of considerable antiquity. We meet with them as early as 1096, flocking to the Crusades among the followers of Peter the Hermit, when one of their name, Greene surnamed the Witless, mortgaged his lands in order to supply his poorer companions with the sinews of war.