Edward Rodes's house is mentioned in Sir Walter Scott's "Old Ballads". It is either about a house in Scotland that the family owned or about the 1642 Cavalier attack on the house in Great Houghton.Barnard, p. 315Burke, p. 564Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900. Anonymous. 17th Cent. 374. Edom o' Gordon
