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 [TRACT SERIES, No. 4] . 
 
 A CURSORY RELATION 
 
 OF ALL THE 
 
 ANTIQUITIES & FAMILYES 
 
 IN CUMBERLAND. 
 
 BY EDMUND SANDFORD, 
 CIRCA 1675. 
 
 EDITED, 
 
 FOR THE CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORLAND ANTIQUARIAN AND 
 
 ARCH^OLOGICAL SOCIETY, 
 
 BY THE WORSHIPFUL CHANCELLOR FERGUSON, M.A., LL.M., F.S.A., 
 
 PRESIDENT OF THE SOCIETY. 
 
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 Printed by T. Wilson. 
 
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 A CURSORY RELATION 
 
 OF ALL THE 
 
 ANTIQUITIES & FAMILYES 
 
 IN CUMBERLAND. 
 
 BY EDMUND SANDFORD, 
 CIRCA 1675. 
 
 EDITED, 
 
 FOR THE CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORLAND ANTIQUARIAN AND 
 
 ARCH/EOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 
 
 BY THE WORSHIPFUL CHANCELLOR FERGUSON, MX, LL.M., F.S.A., 
 
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 * The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Carlisle. 
 
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DEAN AND CHAPTER REGISTRY, CARLISLE. 
 
 Extract from tJic Minutes of the Dean and Chapter, Carlisle. 
 
 ^th May, 1890. 
 
 23rd June, 1885, 
 
 Chapter Library. 
 
 " Application from Mr. R. S. Ferguson 
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INTRODUCTION. 
 
 IN pursuance of the policy, followed by this 
 Society, of publishing gradually in its Trans- 
 actions and its extra volumes, every unpublished 
 manuscript that relates to the two counties with 
 which we deal, Sandford's Historv of Cumberland 
 is now published. Several copies of this manuscript 
 exist, but they are all copied from one which is 
 bound up in the 6th volume of Machell's Collec- 
 tions in the Library of the Dean and Chapter at 
 Carlisle. Machell does not appear to have known 
 who the writer was, and records his ignorance on 
 the title page, but in the index to the Collections, 
 vol. 6, is this note in the handwriting of Bishop 
 Nicolson. 
 
 Mr. Edmund Sandford, Great Uncle to W"' Sandford, Esq^' 
 the present proprietor of the House of Askham, and Chief of 
 the name 1709. 
 
 The manuscript speaks for itself : the writer 
 reminds the reader of Will Wimble, ''■' and must 
 have been very good company, and a very good 
 
 '■'- The Spectator, No. 108. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 fellow, but his accuracy in matters genealogical is 
 sometimes doubtful. 
 
 The Society is indebted to the Dean and Chapter 
 of Carlisle for permission to publish the manuscript, 
 to Mr. E. F. Bell, of the Dean and Chapter Regis- 
 try, for a most careful revision of the text, and to 
 Major Arnison, for the excellent index. 
 
TITLE OF THIS MS. IN VOLUME 6 MACHELL's COLLECTION, 
 DEAN AND CHAPTER LIBRARY. EDITOR. 
 
 A Cursory 
 Relation of ail the An- 
 tiquities & Familyes 
 in CumbHand 
 
 WRITT ABOUT THE YEAR 
 
 1675 
 Mr BLENERASSEN THEN 
 
 SHERIFF OF CUMB\ 
 QU: OF OLD RDM. SANDFORD. 
 
 Qu of Mr. William Farer for the author of this Account of 
 Cumberland.''' 
 
 Twas written by Mr Edmund Sandford Cadet of the House of 
 Askham.f 
 
 * Note in Machell's handwriting. Editor. 
 
 fNote apparently in Bishop Nicolson's handwriting-. Editor. 
 
SANDFORD'S MS. 
 
 r HAVE redd in an Ancient Manuscript of Twenty sheets 
 ^ of paper That Will'm The Conqueror give all The 
 County of Cumb'rland to one Lord Meschines : with 
 Troopes of soldiers : both to face the Scotts and to keep the 
 Country in Subjection to him.* And this Lord Meshines 
 built his castle att Agreement, but a mean Markett Towne, 
 yet of an ancient honor. The Earle of Northumlands 
 eldest sone and heir alwayes Stiled Lo : Egrement and Ther 
 Lordships Lands at this day all a long the montaines 
 Ten miles at least north and south and as many miles up 
 into the montaines & fforest of Innerdale, wher ther is Reed 
 dear, and as great Hartts and Staggs as in any part of 
 England : if you can gett vs a warrant from y""^ brother of 
 Earle of Northumland for a Brace of Staggs. The bow 
 bearer is a brave gentlemen : I have been at his house in 
 the Lower end of Enerdale : a seat for any gentleman : 
 his name Mr. Kelleway and we will hunt that dear gal- 
 lantly ; & eat it more brauely for y°'^ sake. 
 
 This Lord Meschines an old soldier was content to 
 seat himself farr from the danger greatest : for it is 50 
 miles from Scotland : yett nye unto the seas over ag' 
 both Ireland ; and Scotland an arrae of the Sea That goes 
 all along those 50 miles to Domefreise in Scotland. 
 
 Upon which arme o'th sea stand Workington and Seaton 
 Two great villages and manno" : and in the north Termed 
 
 *The writer has, in addition to the usual mistake about William the Conqueror, 
 confused Ranulph de Meschines (Ranulf Meschin) with his brother William, who 
 had the grant of the great barony of Coupland from Ranulph, and seated himself 
 at Esrremont. — Editor. 
 
Lordships : given bv the Lord Meschins To a Kinsman 
 and Colonell called Gospatrick with a great Trackt of the 
 Contry up to Lampley oth fells eastward : and by one of ther 
 successores given to Collenell Lampleys ancesters who now 
 enjoys Lampley and such like all dowen the sea side to 
 Heyton Castle now the Seite of Sir Edward Musgrave K* 
 Baro""^' of Scotland a younger sprigg of the house of Sir 
 Phillip Musgrave of Musgrave, Hartly Castle in West- 
 merland ; And Eden Hall in Cumberland ; as sweet a 
 place as in any part of Engand (sic) as fine as Chelsey 
 feilds ; and The fair River of Eden Like Thams running 
 beside it and apricocks plumes peares cherries and all fruits 
 in abondance and ripe as early. 
 
 And the successor of this Lord of Workington had a 
 yonger brother went to the warrs a great Comander in 
 the English armyes in Edwerde the first times, or a little 
 before : and planted cher and maried ther the Leddy of 
 Culwen a great tract of Land and Tenents in Scotland 
 called Culwen : and the heir male of his elder brother at 
 Workingto failing he came for the better querto"^ and his 
 madam well pleased To Workington : which his noble 
 successors by name & nature nowe enjoyes: as Lately Sir 
 Patricius Curwen K* Barron* and lj>lament man for Cumb'- 
 land* so changing ther name a little from Culwen in 
 Scotland to Curwen. 
 
 Now south from This Capitall Castle of the Lord 
 Meschines of Egrem* To the hedd of Dudden water a brave 
 Rivert where the famous cockles of all England is gathered 
 in the sands scraped out with hookes like sickles, and brave 
 salmons and flookes the brauest in England hangd up & 
 dryed like bacon and as good feeding as Iseland salt wish. 
 
 *Sir Patricius Curwen, born 1601, died 1664. See the " Curwens of Working- 
 ton," by W. Jackson, F.S.A., Transactions of this Society, vol. V, p. iSi. Et 
 seq. — Editor. 
 
 I This waters parts Lancashire and Cumber Land called Dudden his coming 
 from the montains of Coniston in Furneise in Lancashire, Note on margin of 
 ^lachell's copy. 
 
And in this 20 miles Tract you have many brave Rivers 
 
 and houses of c^entry gallant and great estates according to 
 the northern estates : as first of all. 
 
 Two mile Southward you have the little River of 
 Cawder a pretty stone bride bridg* but of one Arch and 
 a church upon the Hill above it : and The said River a 
 Little above The bridge Coming Thoroogh the Abbie of 
 Cawder whose Ruines shew their antiquity and Emenen- 
 cies : and somtimes after the fatall fall of Abbies this came 
 into the hands and possession of the Late Judge Huttonf 
 of the Comon pleas : and he exchangd it with Monsi"^ 
 Kighley of Yorkshire for Goldsborow in Yorkshire a little 
 from Wetherby : where the said Judge Huttons name and 
 fame lives at this day: and Kigley sold it to S"" Rich; 
 ffletcher kn' and his eldest daughter married Patrickson. 
 
 Then all along the sea side yow have a younger son of 
 one Tomas Curwen a branch of the house of Workington 
 but all the Custimary tenents and a pretty house called 
 Scarr hall belong to the house of Workinton : And this 
 Curwen hath Therby a pretty house called Scella park.]: 
 hall : but neither parke nor dear about it, but brave Sport 
 with Riding and Striking of fflounders and other fish with 
 listers in the Shallow river runing brood upon the sand 
 which sporte I myselfe have myself (sic) been at : And 
 have seen Two men one at either end of the nett, The 
 tide coming upon the sands, wade into the Sea with a 
 
 * Bride-bridge = Bridle-bridg-e. The " bride-bridge," just wide enough for a 
 pack horse, can still be seen by looking upwards from the river bed. An extra 
 width has been built on to it at each side. — Editor. 
 
 fSir Richard Hutton, Knt, one of the Huttons of Penrith, a Justice of the 
 Common Pleas, and father-in-law to Sir Philip Musgrave. He was youno-er 
 brother of Sir William Hutton of Penrith and Shank Castle. See pedigree : St. 
 George's Visitation of Cumberland, Harleiun Society. Sir Richard d. 163S. See 
 a memoir in Jefferson's Leath Ward. He purchased Calder Abbey from the 
 descendants of Dr. Leigh, who had a grant of it at the dissolution. Brido-et 
 Fletcher, eldest daughter of Sir Richard Fletcher, married John Patrickson of 
 How, and got Calder Abbey from the Patricksons. Calder Abbey went by sale 
 to John Tiffin, who left it to the Senhouses. — Editor. 
 
 X Henry Curwen of Workington purchased Sella Park for his second son 
 Thomas, born 1590, d. 1653. The vendor was Thomas Fleming. .See the 
 " Curwens of Workington," ut ante. — Editor. 
 
nett of a great Compass till the waves have stroke above 
 ther sholders so as you could see nothing but ther heads, 
 and bring forth Somtimes pretty store of Salmon, Codlins : 
 Killings:* and other fishes, and somtimes nothing. 
 
 Southward up you have the Ancient Scite of Seaskall 
 hall : The prime house of the Senhousest Esq^ : wherof was 
 the Late docto"^ Senhouse Lo : Bishop of Carelile in the 
 last of King James his time : but he was of a yonger branch 
 of Sqire Senhouse of the Nether hall : And many good jests 
 upon him : a constant family of gamsters : as the contry 
 people will say The Senhouse Learn to play at cards in ther 
 mothers belly. And this docto"^ and an other at Tables : he 
 Tript the dye So patt : Sure, quoth the other, its either 
 the devill or Dick Senhous : then at Cambridg and come 
 into Contry and a great hunter and his horse having cast a 
 Show, and the Smith having shod him, he had not money 
 to pay him : goe yo"" way, quoth he, and when yo'^ Bishop 
 of Carely youle pay me : which he did in abondance of 
 gratuity : and was a religious honest pasto'^ never married. 
 Ther hath been in my time 4 Sqire Senhouse of this 
 Seaskall called John & now a faire yong Squire of about 
 28 yeares and his great gand mother of the fflemings of 
 Ridall hall : in WestmHand, and his grandmother, and 
 mother of the Ancient house of Wrightington of Wrigt- 
 hington in Lancashire besides Wigan. 
 
 *Killinp^s=Keelings, large cod fish, see Lord William Howard's Household 
 Books, Surtees Society, vol. 68, p. Si, n— Editor. 
 
 f John Senhouse in 152S married Elizabeth, sister and co-heir of Richard 
 Eag-lesfield, son of Gawen Eaglesfield, of Alneburgh Hall or Ellcnborough Hall, 
 Sheriff of Cumberland. They had four sons : — 
 
 I. — Thomas, ancestor of the Senhouses of Seascale, now extinct in the 
 
 male line. 
 2. — Peter, of Ellcnborough, died a bachelor. 
 2. — John, of Ellenborough (Netherhall,) ancestor of the Senhouses of 
 
 Netherhall. 
 4. — Richard, in orders. 
 John was the entertainer of Camden : his third son, Richard Senhouse, was dean 
 of Gloucester, and bishop of Carlisle, 1624-1626. 
 
 Seascale was sold at the end of the 17th century, but was repurchased long 
 afterwards by Samson Senhouse of the Netherhall branch of the family— a pedi- 
 o-ree of the Senhouses of Seascale is much wanted — for one of the Senhouses of 
 Netherhall, see Whelan's Cumberland. At the Restoration Wrightington Sen- 
 house was one of those selected for the proposed order of the Royal Oak.— 
 Editor. 
 
Southard a little up the Seaside comes Raven Glass 
 but a little a markett, but a great faire at St. James tide, 
 both for cattle from Ireland and He of Man and other those, 
 and our own contry Comodities. 
 
 And upon the Hill above, stands Monkastle The Ancient 
 K^ Seite of the Peningtons : but no IC of late : from 
 v/hence come the Aldermen Peningtons of London ; and I 
 thinke the quondam famous Captaine Peningto : for I had 
 an uncle of my owne name Edm : Sandford prentise to his 
 Cosen Pettington at London which must needs to be one 
 of this house loo yeares ago. Ther is a brave parke and all 
 belonging to this grand house of Montcastre full of fallow 
 dear down to Ravenglas so called of a broode or airye of 
 Ravens there : and I have seen a white Raven ther much 
 made on and very Tame for a marvaile and traind like a 
 hauke to kill partrige and other fowles. 
 
 This is a brave yong gallant and allwayes grand house 
 keepers. I neither know his wife or mother brave Lan- 
 cashire Ladies but his great grandmother was Copley of 
 Yorkshire : and his grandmother Sherburne of the gret 
 house of Stanfords in Lancashire : And two Ants maried 
 to Sir Roger Bradshaw of Lacashire : And Sir Jervis 
 Shakerley Governor of Chester." 
 
 Nye unto Moncaster hall : stands The Church of Waber- 
 thwaite P'ish but of no great valew : and The lyberties 
 Therof goes up half a score mile to the Top of hard knott 
 and wrye knott montains Eastward : such a wrye knotty 
 waye as not the like in England : And on the Tops of 
 thes montains parts Cumberland Westm'land and Lan- 
 cashire. And from Thence comes Waberthaite River and 
 westward Runs into the Sea beside Ravenglass : and 
 
 * Joseph Pennington, Esq : his wife was Margaret, daughter of John Fleetwood, 
 Esq., of Penwortham, Lancashire, and his mother was Isabel, daughter of John 
 Farrington, Esq., of Warden, in the same county. The " fameous Captain Pen- 
 nington," (Admiral Sir John Pennington) was of this family, and his "smooth 
 logs" between 1631 and 1636 are preserved at Muncaster Castle. Joseph 
 Foster's Pcnuingtoniana (privately printed) should be consulted. 1 have not 
 been able to see it. — Editor. 
 
some salmons and all sortes of fish in plenty : but the 
 greatest plenty of hsrrings frech a daintye fish of a foot 
 long: and so plentious a fishing therof and in tiie sea 
 betwixt and the He of Man : as they lye in scooles together 
 so Thike in the sea at Spawning time about Agust as a 
 ship cannot pass Thorow : And the fishers goe from all 
 the coasts to catch them : and a great profit and serve all 
 the Kingdome, and others to for a great part of Lent pro- 
 vision. 
 
 Ffower miles southwards stands Seaton an estate of 
 500'^ <U> an : somtimes a Religious house : gott by one 
 Sir Hugo Askew yeoman of the seller unto Queen Catherin 
 in Henry the Eights Time and borne in this Contry. And 
 when That Queen was deforced from her husband : This 
 yeoman was destitute : And he aplied himself for help to 
 Lo : Chamberlain for some place or other in the Kings ser- 
 vice : The Lord Steward knew him well : because he had 
 helpt him to a cup wine the best but told him he had no 
 place for him : but a Charcole carrier : Well quoth this 
 Mons'"^ Askew help me with one foot and let me gett in the 
 other as I can : And upon a great holiday the King looking 
 out at some sports Askew got a cortier a frinde of his to 
 stand before the King and then he got on his vellet cassock 
 and his gold chine : and baskett of Chercols on his back, and 
 marched in the Kings sight with it. O saith the King now 
 I like yonder fellow well that disdains not to doe his dirty 
 office in his Dainty clothes : what is he : Says his frinde 
 That stood by on purpose It is Mr Askew that was 
 yeoman oth celler to the Late Queens Ma'"^ and now glad 
 of this poore place to keep him in y"^ Ma*'^^ service .which 
 he will not forsake for all the world. The Kinge says : 1 
 had the best wine when he was ith celler : he is a gallant 
 wine Taster let him have his place againe and afterwards 
 kighted (sic) him and he sold his place* and maried the 
 
 * " And purchasd this religious place of Seaton nye wher he was borne of an 
 ancient freehold family." — Note in margin of Machell's Copy. 
 
daughter of Sir John Huddleston* and setled this Seaton 
 upon her : and she afterwards maried Mons'' Penington 
 Lo : of Montcaster : and had Mr Joseph and a yonger Sone 
 with Penington & give him this Seaton : Great Grand 
 father of this Mons''' Penington. t .... 
 
 Eastward from Seaton you goe Millome Lordship 20 
 {sic in origine] miles to the head of the foresaid Dudden 
 great River : all the Lands and freeholds of Lord of 
 Millome Castle : Great great Grand child of the said S''' 
 John Huddleston, of gand (sic) estate, but he gave much 
 away with daughters: and maried to Dalavaike of Sowtham 
 besides Teuxberry 500^' ^> an : in Glostershir And yet it is a 
 Lordlike living 3000^' ^ an: and 500^' ^ an: at Hasley 
 some 10 miles beyond Oxford And ffardinando now Lord 
 thereof : and all the estate of Millome Castle gat it and 
 Sonne of S'^ William Huddleston, and a daughter of Mont- 
 castree : and Colonell of a Regiment of horse and foote, and 
 seven brothers Captains in the Royal Armies under him : 
 And his Grandson A great Swash buckler in Queen 
 Elizabeth time, and great gamster : lived at a Rate 
 bejond his incomes : A great Countess his frinde : Asking 
 him how he lived so gallantly : quoth he, of my meat and 
 my drink: Quoth She I even Looked for such an answer. | 
 And the noble ffardinando Lorde of Millome Castle hath 
 
 *Sir John Huddleston, K.B., married first Jane Lady Clifford, sister of the 
 Earl of Cumberland, by whom he had no issue; second, Jane Seymour, aunt of 
 Jane Seymour, Queen to Henry VIII. by whom he had : i. Anthony. 2. Andrew, 
 ancestor of the Huddlestons of Hutton John. 3. A daug^hter married to Sir Hugh 
 Askew. 4. Ann married to Ralph Latus of the Beck. Sir John died 3S, Henry 
 VIII. Jefferson's AUerdale above Derwent.— Editor. 
 
 f At Bootle Church is a brass bearing the effigy of a knight in armour and this 
 leo-end : — Here lies Sir Hughe Askew, Knyght, late of the Seller to Kynge 
 Edward the VI., which Sir Hughe was made Knyght at Musselborough felde in 
 ye yere of oure Lord 1547 and died the second day of Marche in the yere of our 
 Lord God 1562.— Editor. 
 
 JThe sequence appears to be: Sir John Huddleston, K.B. died 38 Henry VIII. 
 Anthonv, son of John, and the swashbuckler William, son of Anthony, in pos- 
 session of the estates in 1610. Ferdinando, son of William. Sir William, son of 
 Ferdinando, had seven (or eight) brothers. Ferdinando died without issue. See 
 Denton's Account of Cumberland, p. 12. I refrain from attempting to unravel 
 Sandford's Account of the Huddlestons, until Mr. Jackson's long promised 
 pedigree is in print.— Editor. 
 
8 
 
 on Candlemas day last at Millom Castle married his only 
 
 daughter to the sone & heire of Lord De la 
 
 of famous . 
 
 Tradition of This family. 
 
 That a yonger sonneof the successors of the Lord Mes- 
 chins sone after his death : was a great Captaine in the 
 warrs in Wales or Ireland And taken prisoner: and well 
 used upon promise of a great Ransom : and sent to his 
 brother to Egremont for reliefe : but his brother neglected 
 him : In the meantime he had a mighty love of the Lords 
 daughters there wher he was prisoner: and they hearing 
 of no Ransome and like Sarazins unmercifull peeple wold 
 famish him to death and fest him up by his Long haire to 
 a boake so close as a knife cold not pass betwix the skin 
 and the boake. The yong Ladye in good time, with her 
 man and her maid comes : and cults away a peece of skull 
 of his crowne in Loosing him'" downe and he directs her to 
 come in att Duddan Sands to Millome by one he sent unto 
 her. 
 
 Soe he coming to Agreement Castle, and his brother att 
 dinner sounded his bugle home, which the Lady had kept 
 for him, and his greyhound : Which the Lord his brother 
 hearing Quoth he, yonder is my brothers home, goe call him 
 up : And They brought him up : And he wold scarce be 
 frinds with his brother, but diverse frinds Ther made them 
 frinds : and he give him Millome Castle and lo mile 
 downe the Sea side, and 20 miles up Dudden to the mon- 
 tains which is now the Lord of Millome Castle & Lordship 
 and 4 or 5 Churches in it but all Impropriations and 
 many halls and mann" and called Millome beck hall of an 
 Ancientt 
 
 * And she and lier maid held up the body till her man cut skin of his skull to 
 let him downe : and the crest of ther coat of arms a Ladyes arms holding- up a 
 Scull .... Note in margin of Machell's copy. 
 
 f Denton's Account of Cumberland, p. lo, tells the story, and makes the hero 
 captive among- Pagans.— Editor. 
 
Now Eastward from Millome Castle up the River of 
 Dudden which parts Lancashire and Cumberland you 
 have many hamlets townes and villages for ten miles upward 
 to the head of Offa. The Lord of Millome Castle hath 
 gread wodds demisnes and dear and Iron workes. 
 
 And now I have given yow the Tract up the sea side 
 from Egremont Quondam Castle The Ceite of the grand 
 Lord Meschines who had all Comberland & Westm^land 
 given him by Will"^ Conqueror. And like an old soldier 
 planted himself farr from the greatest danger 3 score miles 
 Scotland : And now I come northward from Egremont. 
 
 Yow have St. Bees Abbie and the famous hauen of 
 Whitehauen And This Abbie by Tradidition built vpon this 
 occasion : for the time I referr you to the Cronicles : That 
 ther was a pious religious Lady Abbess and some of her 
 Sisters with her driven in by Stormy wether at White- 
 hauen and ship cast away ith harbore : and so destitute 
 And so She went to the Lady of Egermont Castle for re- 
 leife, That Lady a godly woman pittied her distress and 
 desired her Lord to give her some place to dwell in : 
 which he did at the now St. Bees : And She and her 
 sisters sewed and spinned and wrought carpets and other 
 workes and lived very godly lives : as gott them much Love 
 as she desired Lady Egreemont to desire her Lord to build 
 them a house and they wold live a religious life together 
 and many wolde joine with them : if they had but a house 
 and Land to live upon : wherwith The Lady Egermond 
 was very well pleased : And spoke to her Lord he had 
 Land enough : and give them some To lye up tresures in 
 heaven : And the Lord laughed at the Ladyes : And said he 
 wolde give them as much Land as Snow fell upon the 
 next morning bein midsumerday : And on the morrow 
 looked Out at the Castle window to the seasid 2 miles 
 from Egremont all was white with snow for three miles 
 Together : And thereupon builded this St. Bees Abbie and 
 give all Those Lands was snowen vnto it and the towen 
 and hauen of Whithauen : And somtimes after all the 
 
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 Tithes therabout and up the montains and inerdall forrest 
 eastward was apropriated to this Abbie of St Bees : which 
 was got by one Mr Dacres of Kindred to the Lord Dacres : 
 gott a Long Lease of it at fall of abbeis : and married one 
 Mrs Latos of the beck; hall : att Millom : who afterward 
 maried Squire Wybridge* of Clifton in WestmHand : who 
 purchased the inheritance of this Abbie of the Crowne : and 
 sold it to old Sir John Lowther who give it to his yonger 
 sone Sir Christopher Lowther Kt Bart soone after and his 
 sone now Sir John Lowther of Sockbridge in Westmerland 
 now enjoies This St. Bees Abbie Whitehauen and all ther- 
 abouts with colyerye, saltpans, and all casuall profits looo'' 
 ^ an : at least.! And heer is a grand free scoole founded by 
 Bishop Gryndall borne hereabouts. 
 
 And by the sea side The sea flowing vp to the very 
 dores : Stands Rauen Glass a markett Towne : And a 
 Grand faire of three dayes Long at St. James Tide for all 
 Sortes of Cattle Especially : and all other Comodities from 
 Ireland ; He of Man and Scotland : and this Towne belongs 
 to Moncastre Castle. 
 
 And one mile from St. Bees you have Rotington Hall 
 and Towne the Ancient Seit of Mr Sands : from whence 
 Bishop Sands was derived : a Lords familye in the South : 
 but I know none of them, but the Last Squire Monsr Rob : 
 Sands who sold it to the Late S"^ Henry Curwen : whose 
 grand child ; in minoritye and his Lady mother: Grandchild 
 or daughter of Sir Michaell Wharton of the wolds in York- 
 shire now hath and enjoyes this Rotington. t 
 
 *Wyberg-h. Editor, 
 
 fin 1553 Edward VI. granted to Sir Thomas Chaloner the manor, rectory, and 
 cell of St. Bees, and all its possessions not granted away before. The Chaloners 
 sold to the Wyberghs, who then got the reversion of the property included in the 
 long lease to Dacres, which they had also acquired. See "The Chaloners, 
 Lords of the Manor of St. Bees," by VV. Jackson, F.S.A., Transactions Cum- 
 berland Association Literature and Science, vol VI., p. 47. — Editor. 
 
 J The minor was Henry Curwen, born 1661, son of Eldred Curwen and 
 Catherine Wharton, son of Sir Henry Curwen, of Workington, by his second wife 
 Margaret, daughter of Thomas Bouskill. Eldred Curwen d. 1673. See "The 
 Cyrwens, &c," by Wm. Jackson. Ut «/;/f.— Editor. 
 
II 
 
 Now from the seaside vp the River which comes by 
 Egremond vp to the head of Innerdale forrest above a 
 dozen mile to the east montains you have many townes 
 hamlets and villages, but no grand Gentry one Ponsonby* 
 oth haile: but of no great remerke : But a litle above nye 
 the montanes towards Moncastree : A. great Tower house 
 of ancient family of Squire Iretons : of Ireton : but not of 
 that fatall Ireton : of Olivers Tribe : ffor this now Lord of 
 Ireton hall came To attend at the Kings Returne to 
 London : And some gallant brought him to kiss the 
 Kings hand : And now quoth he, I have blessed my eyes 
 with a sight of King : He even goe home and end my 
 days in godds peace I hope. 
 
 Up this River from Egremonds eastward you have 
 Cleeter a little towne, and church in it but all impropriations 
 The tithes belonging to bees Abbie, and a faire house and 
 demisne of Sawter : now belonging to Squire Pattrinckson 
 oth how hall : a little above : in botome of Innerdall Ther 
 is diverse of Thes Patricsons in this Trackt brave Gentry 
 and good estates. 
 
 In the foote of innerdall forrest stands Mr Kellawaie's 
 Hall : a Southern name : And he a brave Gentleman : 
 Ranger & bow bearer of Innerdall forrest To the Earl of 
 Northumberland : and you wolde gett us a warrant for a 
 brace of Redd dear in Innerdale from the Lord Northum- 
 berland : yo'' brother & we wold hunt them bravely with Mr 
 Kellaway wold make much of us. 
 
 Then a little bejond eastward you have the Ancient 
 Squire family ; of Lampley of Lampleyf a Colonell in the 
 Royall Service a very faire hall howse : & village and 
 church ; and p'son loo^' -^ an : I beleive : And so along to the 
 montanes of Louswater : a little lake or meerfull of diverse 
 sortes of very good fish : both trotes, chers, skellies etc. 
 
 * Pedigrees of Ponsonbysand Irtons are in Jefferson's Allerdale-above-Dervvent, 
 and in Whelan's Cumberland. But they are extremely deficient in dates. — 
 Editor. 
 
 f Lamplugh of Lamplugh : pedigree in the county histories. — Editor. 
 
12 
 
 and doune in the bottome you have Craples hall, and village 
 Though they very ancient gentry, I never heard them of 
 any great rem'"ke : And from Thence I will merch to 
 Lorton : and vp to Stye head and Raize : that parts Cum- 
 berland and Westmerland, for besides Craples Ther is 
 many hamlets and villages but I know not ther names : nor 
 any gentry nor matter of note amongst them : And from 
 hence I goe up to the Stie head montain and the Raieezes 
 That part Cumberland & Westmerland. 
 
 The Raize some 8 mile South above* Keswicke : And 
 from another High montain nye hand called Styehead a 
 current River as all the great rivers : comes from little 
 Rivelets burst forth of the topps of the montains : which 
 makes the great question whether sea or land be higher : 
 and so from the currents round about from the hills springe 
 a Lake or mearin the Bottome : of six miles in lenth, and 
 halfe as much in bredth : and diverse little Hands in the 
 midst : Sir Wilfred Lawson hath a pretty sumerhouse in 
 one of them. 
 
 But the manno'' house of the He hall is the principall : 
 and the mansion house and dwelling of John Lord of Der- 
 wen water, as this meer is called : whose female heir above 
 200 year agoe was married to the noble familie of Ratlif of 
 Dilston in NorthumbHand : And now Lord of this He : 
 and The markett Towne of Keswick, and parke and dear 
 and all Royalties annexed vnto it : and heer was the 
 bravest water mille of the duth invented Daniell & Mannell 
 came from bejond seas in Queen Elizabeths Time for the 
 smelting and fining of Cooper Ore : gott in the montains 
 heer about*: but now the woods are gone, and the works 
 decayed Though I thinke the mines be as much in the mon- 
 taines as ever they were : if any wold set upon : I thinke 
 ther might be a shift made for fire ; Coals, and woode peats 
 
 * Introduced no doubt by the German miners, who were brought to Keswick in 
 the time of Queen Elizabeth, for the purpose of working- the minorals. Fur an 
 account of them see Transactions this Society, vol VI., 344. — Editor. 
 
13 
 
 enough : And here a very ffair house of ancient gentile 
 family of Willyamson the birth place of that most In- 
 genious monsi"^ Sir Joseph Williamson now principall 
 Secretary of State : A pregnant scoler : part Through his 
 degrees at Queen Colledg Oxford : when surrendred went 
 over sea gott divers Languages and there Came into the 
 Kings Service and welbeloved for I never heard any 
 great ill o him : And heer was Sir John Banks borne : a 
 Rich merchants Sone of this Towne of Keswick : bred up 
 at Grays a great Lawyer somtimes the Kings attorney and 
 Translated to Lord Cheif Judg oth Comon Pleas : went to 
 Oxford to the King, and ther dyed : and his Lady and wife 
 went to her house of Corf Castle in hampshire which he 
 purchased of the Lady Hatton : and ther this brave Virago 
 Lady Banks kept this castle : She and herweomen att one 
 post : and some few men they had at another post : agen 
 a great Army of P'lament : untill they all Run away 
 hearing of my Lord hoptons coming with relief.* 
 
 Ther is a fair Church but stands half a mile from Kes- 
 wick and called Crosthwait p'ish but a vicarigh yet I 
 think worth loo'^ |> an : And from this darwen watter ther 
 runns a pretty river into an other Lake Larger and Longer 
 called Bassenthait lake : and Townes and villages on both 
 sides : under the highest montaines of England : Skiddey 
 Topp, and Castorstand Two the highest hill in all England : 
 but no great gentry herabouts : but many substantial 
 Monsires and many of the Williamsons : and of some of 
 thes Tribes : That Ingenious Sir Joseph Williamson now 
 principall Secretary of Stated : And along the east side of 
 this Long river ther is a Large Lordship belongs to the 
 Earle of Derby called Bassenthwait : and woods all along 
 the west side, and above the woods a pretty Lordship 
 
 *Sir John Bankes b. at Keswick, 15S7, Attorney-General 1634. Chief Justic^ of 
 the Common Pleas 1640 to his death 1644 : he was a great benefactor to Keswick 
 by his will. He purchased Corfe Castle from the Hattons, which his wife de- 
 fended ag-ainst the l^arliamentarians. — Editor. 
 
 t Sir Joseph Williamson, Secretary of State— 1674-167S. — Editor. 
 
^4 
 
 called weydup^'' and ancient hall house : bought by Sir 
 Rich, ffletcher of old Sir Rich. Lowther of Lowther : And 
 now in the possession of Sir Georg ffletcher K' Barn^ of 
 Hutton ith fforest ny pearth. 
 
 At the Bottome of this Long Bassenthait beck ; ther 
 is a wood bridg of 20 Arch yet within twise twelve score 
 below a man may ride over ; and called derwin and runs 
 westward into the Sea at Workington. 
 
 And hear at Ouse brige is an Ancient hall house of a 
 Squires family called Heimore : one of late a pregnant 
 Clerk in the Checq' Office raised to a pretty fortune nye 
 vnto ware : but this estate of no great valew : but have 
 somtimes been justice of the peace in their contry, and 
 it is called Armithwaits and have very good fishings belong 
 unto it. 
 
 Now Ther is noe remarkable place dowen This Rever 
 of Darwent : but some villages of either Side The water 
 untill yow come To Isill Hall : once The ceite of an Ancient 
 gentile familye of the Leighs : The last wherof maried The 
 ffair Matilda Redman : The widowe of the Noble Squire 
 Ireton of Ireton Tower aforesaid And on this mariag, the 
 said Mr. Leigh mad this Isell to himself and This 
 Matilde his wife and the Longer liver of them, and their 
 heires And she survyving Mr. Leigh : maried Sir Wilfrid 
 Lawson Grand Steward of the Earle of Northumberland 
 of all his lands in Cumberland And she likewise made 
 over This Isell and all belonging therto To her said hus- 
 band And the Longer liver of them ; and ther heir heires : 
 And her husband surviving It came To the now Sir 
 Wilfrid Lawson who married the daughter of Sir Edward 
 Musgrave of Haiton Castle, who now Injoyes This 
 ancien ceite of Isell and Blencrake a great village a little 
 above it northward so called of the many Crakes : The 
 
 *Wythop.— Editor. 
 
15 
 
 Crowes so called in yt contry : building in the woods 
 there.* 
 
 Vpon the south side of Darwent upon a hill looking 
 over ISell and the contry stand Howthwaite the fair ceite 
 and house of an Ancient Squire familie of The Swinburns : 
 The Last wherof maried mabella musgrave, daughter of 
 Monsi"^ Tho : Musgravet : of Comecath the quondam 
 famous brave horse couser : Loved therefore with all the 
 Lords of england ; and a metled man in the Queen 
 Elizabeths time in the border service, And wolde shew 
 many m'^ke of his wounds gott in that service : And had 
 the fortune to be Second ; To cutting Mr. Terverner when 
 he killd one Mr. Bird a Courtier ; And in great danger 
 beseeched my Lord pembroke to gett his perdon,.my lord 
 was long a doing And he told him if he made not hast 
 he should be hange before : my lord says, before Thow be 
 hanged lie be hanged for the : Said Musgrave Good my 
 Lord Then be Sure you be ther that day and got his 
 perdon afterward. 
 
 And now we come to Cokermoth Parks and 3 miles 
 downe to the Towne w'^^ stands at the little River called 
 Cokers mouth Then running into derwent therupon takes 
 the name of Cokermouth : A very fine markett, and many 
 fairs at it for all comoditie, and a marvellous fair castle : 
 given by the Lord meschines : To a Kinsman of his : And 
 in sequell of time came to the Lord Lucie whose female 
 heir brought it to the Earle of Northumberland, upon con- 
 dition he should quarf^ The Percies arms and the Lucies 
 together, which they do & enjoyes it at this day. 
 
 * This story is also told by Denton and Gilpin (Account of Cumberland, p. 47). 
 Litigation took place and a compromise was effected. The Sir Wilfred Lavvson 
 who'' married Maud or Matilda Leigh had no issue, and Isell went to his nephew, 
 William Lawson, whose son Wilfred married Jane, daughter of Sir Edward Mus- 
 grave of Hayton, and purchased a baronetcy from James IL Crakes are not 
 crows, and do not build in trees. — Editor. 
 
 f Probably the same with Thomas Musgrave, Captain of Bewcastle, second son 
 of Sir Simon Musgrave of Edenhall, who was Sheriff of Cumberland, 15CS-9. 
 Cumcatch is near Brampton and Milton.— Editor. 
 
i6 
 
 On the east side of the derwent, on a hill stands pap- 
 castle a very great village and a little from thence stands 
 duffondy hall, once belonging to the Kirkbrides but lately 
 to the Lampleys : The Last being Sir Thomas Lampley : 
 who built a free schole there, and I knew very well ; and 
 fower brother of them without any issue male ; or who 
 hath it now I know not.* 
 
 Then yow come downe the River to Broughton ; a great 
 Town of the Lord Whartons, and so along to Ribton : an 
 Ancient Squire famileis ceite of the same name : but 
 Lately sold to one Sir Tho : Lampley, and he sold it to 
 the now Lawyer Lampleys father :f who now injoes it and 
 his dwelling house and habitation : And haith builded a 
 very fair house at it. A little above we have Broughton a 
 very faire great village belonging to The Lord Wharton : of 
 Wharton in Westm^land as he hath many other Lands 
 in thes parts of Cumberland. 
 
 Two miles downe The River of derwent stands Camerton 
 hall and a faire churh beside : A faire Tower house and vil- 
 lage : The habitation of Squire Curwen and a faire estate 
 somtimes of 3 or 400^' ^ an : but the Rectorye an impro- 
 propriation : And this family an Ancient branch of the 
 great house of Curwen of Workinton : Ther great Grand- 
 father, maried Senhouse : and his grandmother Brokes of 
 Brokooles in Lancashire nye unto Lancaster : And his 
 mother: a daughter of Mr. Porter of weery hall. J 
 
 *Burn & Nicolson say the school at Dovenby was founded by Sir Thomas 
 Lamplugh in 1G09 (vol. II, pp. 104-105,) and that he married Agnes, daughter of 
 Sir Thomas Braithwaite : she lived to the age of 100. He does not fit 'into the 
 printed pedigrees of Lamplugh. — Editor. 
 
 t Thomas Lamplugh, second son of Thomas Lamplugh, of Riston, purchased 
 Ribton : he died 1670 leaving two sons, Richard, who must have been the lawyer, 
 and Thomas , of York. Richard married Frances, daughter of Sir 
 
 Christopher Lowther of Whitehaven, and had a daughter Jane, who married ist, 
 John Senhouse of Netherhall ; 2nd, Charles Orfeur of Plumbland. Jefferson's 
 Allerdale-above-Derwent. — Editor. 
 
 J Christopher Curwen of Camerton married Ann daughter of Senhouse of Sea- 
 scale : his son Henry married Bridget, daughter of Thomas Brockholes : his son 
 Christopher married Ann, daughter of Joseph Porter of Wreay Hall. See "The 
 Curwens," «/ (tiitc. — Editor. 
 
17 
 
 And a little above on a hill side stands Seaton : The 
 Ancient sceit of Cospatrick : A Large village, untill he 
 Transpanted (sic) his house To Workington on east side of 
 the river : and belongs to the Lord of Workington : and a 
 Rich soile, very faire redd wheat groinge ther ; And the 
 Tenents ther pay many bushels of wheat with other Rent 
 in moneys Rent henns, and other dewties, and service, 
 to Workington : As the most parte of all the contry do to 
 ther Land Lords, and fines, and gressoms, at death of Lord, 
 and Tenant : According to ther custimarye estate : no 
 Tenents holding by Lease in thes contries : and thes 
 Towns on the north side vpon the River dervent To the 
 sea seven miles from Cockermouth. 
 
 The River Running streight downe without any Crooked- 
 nes to sea westward next to Cokermoth on the east side 
 this River derwent : yow have a faire village, and a fairer 
 church (and p'ish) seated nye vnto the River But an im- 
 propriation, the Rectory 300^' ^ an. at Least and belongs 
 to Sir Georg ffletcher of Hutton. 
 
 Then yow have Large villages on the River side called 
 Cliflons and so yow come into the Territyes of Lands 
 of W^orkington fower miles to the sea west : & six miles 
 dowe (sic) the west sea side all belonging to Workington. 
 
 Now I have Traced all southward to Lancashire, and 
 much Eastward to the mountain Topps to Westmorland 
 from the princely pallace, of the Grand Lord Meschines 
 sceited vpon a little green hill : now not seen (?) standing 
 vpon an other at Egremond: with your favore I will trace 
 yt downe The sea side to Workington some Ten miles 
 northward : And all this Tract above Darwen water 
 southward ; with all in the Dioces Chestre.* 
 
 I have given yow heertofore The S' Bees : And thereto 
 Adjoining a fair squire house of Mr. Sands of Rotington : 
 nye there I have gott many fine Aggots, and precious 
 
 *'rhe aire of the sea is so strong as bear up divers sorts of fowles that can 
 not flye but when they are over the sea. Note in the marj:^in of Machell's Copy 
 with a " query " to it. 
 
i8 
 
 stones That wold cutt glass like diamonds* : And Ther is 
 fovvles ther builds in the S' Bees Rock : it is called : thes 
 fowles as bigg and swift of wing as duck and mallard : 
 And builds in the Rock they hangs over the see: and They 
 Let downe a broad nett from the Topp of the Rock And 
 frights The fowles of ther nests, and the netts cacth (sic) 
 them : They cannot flye when they are half a mile from the 
 sea : And of this squire family of Rotington was Bishop 
 Sands, now a Lords family in the south. The Last of this 
 house I knew : Monsi"^ Rob'^'"'^ Sands a pretty gentleman 
 had travaile and spook french : And sold this to Sir Henry 
 Curwen, father of the late Sir Patricius Curwen, whose 
 nevy now a mino^ And sone of his brother Eldred and the 
 grandaughter of Sir Michaell Wharton of the Wolds in 
 Yorkshire now Lord and Lady of this Rotington. t 
 
 Now you come to the fameous Towne of Whitehaven, the 
 most frequented haven of thes parts : where Sir Jas. Low- 
 ther of Sockbrige in Westm^'land K* Baron^ hath a fair 
 house : and divers salt panns and colyerrie the Reason of 
 the great frequenting of shipps and adjoining to S' Bees of 
 great valew & profitts above looo^' ^ an : And adjoining 
 thereunto you have Morisby, The ancient seat of an 
 ancient gentile family of the Morisbyes, but now the faire 
 house and habitation of one Squire fflecther,| And a fair 
 castle there for defence of the contry in Ancient Times : 
 but now not habitabe : (sic) And a pretty hauen 
 place here, called parten : where somtimes ships ar- 
 rive. And lately the dwelling of Monsi"" Henry ffletcher 
 a great horse cowser, and gamster at all essayes : and 
 married faire Mrs. Anne : sister to the late S'"' Patricius 
 Curwen : she and her sone now there dwelling. § |j 
 
 * At Fleswick Bay. 
 
 t A)ite, p. 
 
 X Henry Fletcher of Moresby Hall. He succeeded his brother William at 
 Moresby. They were .arrandsons of William Fletcher, who in 1576 purchased the 
 hall, manor and advowson of Moresby. Whelan's Cumberland, p. 41S. — Kditor. 
 
 § She was daughter to Sir Henry Curwen and half sister to Sir Patricius Cur- 
 wen, and afterwards married Henry Skelton, as her second husband. See '' The 
 Curwens' &c." ;(/ a«/e.— Editor. 
 
 II And a braue horse Rase alons;- the Sea sides; and cony warrand and salmon 
 
19 
 
 Vp into the Land eastward yow have distington, or 
 dikestowne, and formerly belonging to Squire Dikes of 
 warthole : and sold by the said Sqire Leonard Dikes to 
 this mosire ffletchers Grandfather, and heer is a hall house 
 and pretty demise belonging thereunto now Mr. fletchers. 
 And a little from thence into the contry : comes Dean a 
 very Large village, and free scole, and faire church : and 
 p'sonage I thinke of 120^' ^ an. but the Towne belongs to 
 the Lord Wharton. And hard by Thar is an Ancient fair 
 Touer house Mr. Sckeltons : called Branthait where that 
 squire family most resided. And this Mr. Sketons grand- 
 father marrid the daughter of Sir Henry Curwen of 
 Workington : whom I knew very well* but This Mr. Tho. 
 Skelton had ill fortune in his youth to kill one of the Sen- 
 hous : they had sore fight for it, in riding home from 
 Cokermoth markett : and he glad to sell his Tower house, 
 and Lands att Skelton his ancienters habitation, and 
 manno"^ of Hensingham which one of the Salkeld now 
 enjoye ; and sold Salter and all ; to free himself and his 
 com.plices of the death of this man.j 
 
 Then I come to the Territories of workington Lordship : 
 of Lokey, and Stainburne]: the manno""^ belonging thereto : 
 and yearly Court Barons kept thereat : And att Harrington ; 
 and many salt panns ther : And a fair parke of fallow dear 
 there : Adjoining to the demisne Lands of Workington 
 a very fair Larg village, and fair hauen : but not so much 
 now frequented v/ith ships : The coleyery being decayed 
 therabout : and a very fair church & p'sonage of 120'^ ^ an. 
 and one Mr Madison now ther pasto^ And a very fair 
 
 fishings and sea fish and fowles enough for permitting and ancorage of the 
 fishings. Note in the margin of Machell's Copy. 
 
 *This would seem to refer to the marriage mentioned in the preceding note : 
 if so, the matter is rather a puzzle. 
 
 '[■Simon Senhouse, second son of John Senhouse of Nctherhall (Camden's 
 friend), was murdered by Skelton near Dovenby. 
 
 X All this above Darwen water southwards is within the Lord Bishop of Chet,ter 
 diocese. And this Workington estate above louo'i p. an. Note in the margin of 
 Machell's Copy. 
 
20 
 
 Mansion house, and a pallace like : A court of above 60 
 yards Long, and 40 yards broad built Round about: Garreted 
 Turretwise and Toores in the corner : with gate house ; And 
 most wainscott Romes and gallery and the braue pros- 
 pect of seas and ships all most to the house the Tides 
 flowing up : braue orchards gardens doue Coats : and 
 woods and groves in the banks about : and braue corne 
 feilds and meadows below, as like as Chelsay feilds. And 
 now the habitation of a braue yong Sq"^ : his ffather 
 monsi"^ ^Eldred Curwen : and his mother the the (sic) grand- 
 child of Sir Michaell Wharton oth wolds in Yorkshire an 
 estate 1500'' ^ an : 
 
 Now lei me tell yow the family and pedegree of this 
 Ancient great house Chiviles of Workington for five, or 
 six discents : my owne great great grandmother being 
 either sister or daughter to S"^ Tho. Curwen K* in Henry 
 the Eights Time An excellent Archer at Tweluscor merks : 
 And went vp with his men To shoote : w*'' that King 
 Henry 8: at the dissoluition of abbeys: And the King 
 says to him Curwen why doth thee begg none of thes 
 Abbeys : I wold gratifie the someway quoth the other I 
 thanke yow and afterwarde said he would desire of him 
 the Abbie of ffurnes (nye unto him) for 20*^ one yeares : 
 sayes the King take it for ever : quoth the other it is 
 long enough, for youle set them up againe in y* time but 
 they not likely to be set vp againe : this Sir Tho : Curwen 
 sent Mr Preston who had maried his daughter to renew 
 the lease for him : And he even renued it in his owne name : 
 which when his father in low questioned: quoth Mr. 
 Preston yow shall have it as Long as you live : And I 
 thinke I may as well have it with yo'' daughter : as 
 another.! 
 
 I think this Sir Harry Curwens wife was Fairfax, York. 
 
 * Henry Curwen, born i66t, see ante p. lo n. — Editor. 
 
 f Sir Thomas Curvven's sister, Ellyn, and not his daughter, married John Pres- 
 ton, which somewhat disparages this gossiping story. See " The Curwens," ut 
 ante p. 2.— Editor. 
 
21 
 
 Then comes his sone and heir old Sir Harry Curwen K' 
 and heire of his j^allantry : And with Sir Symond Mus- 
 grave wear both kniglited, at the progress of an English 
 army into Scotland : and brought away with him the 
 Iron gate of a tower of Carlavericke castle, the house of 
 Lord Maxwell : and is now the gate of a Tower dower at 
 Workington. 
 
 Then comes his sone Sir Nicolas Curwen, marries 
 Sir Symond Musgraue daughter & Monsi'' Christopher 
 Musgraue marries his sister: The grandmother of the 
 now noble Sir Phillip Musg (sic) Governo'^ of the Carlile 
 Castle and citie and garrison there and protects the contry 
 from moss Tropers. 
 
 Then comes Sir Henry Curwen p'lament man for the 
 County; maries Sir John Dalston daughter and Sir Patri- 
 cius Curwen his sone & heire- and Colonell in the Late 
 Ro3-all armies and his brother Capt ZEldered Curwen 
 father of the now monsir Curwen in minority Lord of 
 Workington The sone of Sir Michaell Whartons daughter 
 of the woldes in Yorkshire.! 
 
 *Sir Patricius maried Sir Georg Selbies dausjhter of Newcastle : but had no 
 issue. Note in the margin of Machell's Copy. 
 
 f Agnes Strickland. = Thomas Curwen. = FIorcns Wharton. 
 
 Mary Fairfax. = Henry Curwen. = Crosby. 
 
 Anne Musgrave. = NiCHOLAS Curwen. = Eliz. Carus. 
 
 Catherine Dalston. = Henry Curwen. = Margaret Bouskill. 
 
 Patricius Curwen. = Isabel Selby. Eldred Curwen. = Catherine Wharton. 
 
 Henry, ob. v. p. Henry Curwen. 
 
 ■» 
 See "The Curwens," ;// a«7e. Editor. 
 
22 
 
 Then three miles along the seaside northward yow have 
 flimby, a pretty village and Ancient Gentryes house of 
 Blenrasset no'^^ Sheriff of Cumberland having Sir Ed\v : 
 Musgraue daughter to wife. And hath a pretty estate, 
 but I am not well acquainted with it, And a little above, on 
 a hill stands vnerigg an Ancient squires Towerhouse & 
 familys residence for most part Though they had an other 
 Lordship called Thwaits vp in the head of Millome : Mr. 
 Joseph Thwaits, in my Time one of witf.est braue mons'" 
 for all gentile gallantry hounds, haukes, horse courses, 
 boules, bowes & arrowes, and all games whatsoever : play 
 his 100^' at cards, dice, and Shovelboord if you please, and 
 had not above 200" W an : yet left his children pretty 
 porcions : & dyed beloued of all parties* And his sone 
 sold it to Mr. Barwis, & Mr. Barvvis to Mr. Cristian 
 deimster in He of Man, 
 
 Then three miles at foote of the River elme : stands 
 neitherhall : A Tower house & ceite of the Ancient Squire 
 families of the Eglisfeildes : where was bred that Right 
 Revered Ghostly ffather To Queen Phillip of famous 
 memory That vpon his mediation : builded and fownded 
 Queens Colledg in oxford ; and first endowed it with 
 resonable mentenance ; but with more Reverend and 
 Rationall statutes and ordinances for pious life and con- 
 versation, to be admired as Long as they continued, but 
 not observed at this day : but with house gone from the 
 Eglisfeild, to a yonger sone of Senhouse of Seeskals 
 hall great grandfather to Capt John Senhouse now 
 owner therof : and Mary his wife sister of Monsir Andreu 
 Huddleston of Hutton John in this Cumberland : now a 
 protestant Thoe an ancient papist family and nevy to Mr. 
 John Huddleston of the Queen Caple, And yow may see 
 
 * His wife was Mr Georg Salkeld's daughter of Rosgill. Note in the margin of 
 Machell's Copy. 
 
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 how popery decays without ^secution not one for looo^' 
 in my time.* 
 
 This Cumberland I tak it, as Anciently other Counties, 
 was devided into hundreds now calld five severall wards : 
 And A high sheriff over them, & an under sheriff, & five 
 head baliffs, and many under bayliffs, & coroners : And 
 I have given yovv the South ward and now I come to the 
 west ward : from the River Elme foot upward to the east 
 some Three miles from Netherhall the Ancient seite of 
 that Squ^ family of the Egleshfeilds. 
 
 Yow have a very faire village called derome : And a faire 
 Church in it And I think a p'sonage of above 200'* #- an ; 
 and one Mr Eglesfeild Lately pastor There ; and his father 
 An ancient gentleman there of some 40^' ^ an living there 
 pious discreet monsir : but the Towne was the Late Mr 
 Barwis of Ilekirk. 
 
 Then you have of the Hill side white rigg but a little 
 village : and nye therunto yow have Bridkirk a fair Towne, 
 and Church 100^' p- an and p'sonage and a fair, hall house 
 of the Tolsons. The owner now Grayes in Lawyer, 
 maried Sir Wilfride Lawsons daughter of Isell :t And 
 
 *i528. 
 ToHN Senhouse = Elizabeth Eglesfield. 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 Thomas John = Anne Ponsonby. 
 
 of Seascale. of Netherhall. | 
 
 Peter. = Frances Skelton. 
 John.=Eliz. Wharton. 
 
 Eliz. Tolhurst.=John. = Mary Huddleston. 
 
 Editor. 
 
 f Richard Toli^on of Bridekirk, a lawyer, was i\I.P. for Cockermouth in the first 
 and second parliaments of Charles II, see Cumberland and Westmorland RI.Ps., 
 p. 444. He is there stated to have married a Yorkshire lady, daughter of Gilbert 
 Gregory, so he would (if the man meant in the text) have been married twice. 
 Editor. 
 
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 next 370U have Talentire, an Ancient faire dwelling of one 
 sq"^ family of the Ratclifes : but now of monsir Lanclot 
 ffletcher, a great Gamster : and a large Towne belonging 
 thereunto : below ther yow have some houses and small 
 hamlets not worth the naminge. 
 
 And now yow come over The fair hors Raze of the more 
 of Muta : Where Ther grazes manny flocks of fine wolled 
 sheep : but little, and fine and sweeter muttons than the 
 south : And at the foot and sides of the more many faire 
 gentile fabrickes : ffirst the Ancient sq^ family of the 
 Monsir Dikes of dikes Towne a little above workinton : 
 a very faire house called Warthole & Tennents thereto be- 
 longing, and an other great village hardby called Gilcrux 
 of the p'ish of plumland Church some mile of: And a faire 
 village and fairer Sqs Ceite called Plumbland Hall ; a very 
 ancient gentile family : The now owner Mosire Gulielm' 
 Orpheur 300^^ ^ an estate last Sheriff of Cumberland, 
 m.aried Madam Howard daughter to Sir Charles Howard : 
 sone to Theophilus late Earle of Suffolk, who com into 
 this contry with Right Hon^^^ Contes of Carelile her cosen 
 and hath many fine children :*t And a fair Church and 
 <H>sonage of 200'' ^ an And a little mile from Thence 
 Threepland hall a faire house 200^' ^ an : estate of a 
 yonger brother of Salkeld of Whithall, and a village 
 belongin it his mother, parson fairfax daughter of Caldbeck : 
 and his wife Sq'' Iretons daughter of Irton hall In the 
 south warde of this county. 
 
 *This gallant Monsir Orpheurs great grand mother, was a daughter of Sq : 
 Lampley of duffonby and nye of kindred to the old Lady Howard of Naward 
 Castale.& Coheir to the Last Lord dacres : and great grand mother to the now 
 Honorble Earle of Carelile, and This yong madam a fair virgin coming with the 
 Right Honorble Contes of Carelile in to this contry fell in Loue with this braue 
 Monsir Orpheur Late Sheriff of Cumberland and with all frinds consent they 
 maried and hath many fine children and fair estate in the north 4ooli per an. 
 Note in margin of Machell's Copy. 
 
 t See "The Orfeurs of High close," by VV. Jackson, F.S.A., Transactions 
 Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, vol. iii, 
 p. 99, where is much of interest concerning the couple mentioned in the text. 
 Editor. 
 
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 And Then Two mile downe to Squire Salkelds of White- 
 hall* an estate of 500" ^ an, and a very fair fabrick and 
 warm place and pleasant parke as any in England but now 
 The deare is distroyed : and the river of Elme running by 
 it : and two very great villages of either side belonging 
 therunto : Torpennow : on the east side and a fair Church 
 in it and ^sonage of 200^' ^ an And on the west side 
 blanrasset and not very Large Towne wher the County 
 Cour is many times kept. 
 
 And a little way of Harby Brow : A Tower house som- 
 times of the Troughtons And some Tenents, but now they 
 belong to Squire Blencoe of Blencoe hall. And vpon 
 the top oth hill you have a great village called Bole : t 
 where a yonger branch of the Sq"^ Dentons had a pretty 
 mansion : and a witty man : maried my Lady winde- 
 banks daughter ; and secretary windibanks sister and 
 brought both his wife, and Lady mother hither, wher 
 they dyed some 50*^ years agoe : and his sone sold it to 
 Mr Salkeld. 
 
 Now still on the east side vpward of this River of Elme 
 yow haue many pretty houses and gentile Like families : 
 and a Curch belonging to Ireby of 100^' ^ an but Ireby 
 stands a mile aboue : a pretty corne markett Towne, and 
 belonging to the Late Si"" William Musgrave of Crockdake, 
 a branch of Sir phillip Musgraue family of Musgraue in 
 Westm^land : but this Ireby : And Crockdake are come 
 to Si'' John Ballington a braue Scoth Chiveleir : having 
 maried the grandchild and Coheir of the said Si"^ Willm 
 Musgraue, and another Scoth monsir Charteers]; married 
 the other Coheir and have many fine children. 
 
 * A pedigree of the Salkelds is much wanted : the last of the Salkelds of 
 Whitehall was Henry Salkeld, a physician, on whose death shortly after the 1745, 
 the property went to the Charltons. Mounsey's "Carlisle in 1745," 259-262. 
 Editor. 
 
 f Bothel, which was sold by Thomas Denton to Sir Francis Salkeld. Bothel 
 is still pronounced Bole in the district. Editor. 
 
 tChartres, see Denton's History of Cumberland, 57 n. Editor. 
 
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 A little above Ireby you have Vldale a Large Lordship 
 belonging to Monsir John Dalston of Akron bank in 
 Westm'^land, and p'lameut man for Apleby : And a fair 
 mansion hall house heer in the Towne of Vldale : and 
 patrone of a faire Church & $>'Sonage of loo'^ ^ an, and 
 the river comes downe from the hills a little above Cad- 
 beck : no more worth mentioning therabouts. 
 
 Now on the north west side of this River of Elme vow 
 haue faire green downes : and fair flockes of Sheep, and 
 fine sweet mutton : And over ag* Ireby stands Bolton a 
 fair Church an p'sonage of loo^' Ip- an ; and belongs to the 
 Earle of Northumber Land ; and a little below Wearie 
 hall ; a fair mansion house and dwelling of Sq"^ Porter : 
 his grandmother a daughter of Salkeld of Whihalls : his 
 mother daughter of Curwen of Camerton : and his wife 
 daughter of Mr Taylor of Todcaster Yorkshire.''' 
 
 And so downe the River of Elme 3'et on the north west 
 side yow have Aspatria a very large village and fair church 
 and ^sonage in it 100^' ^ an belongs some of it to Braiton 
 hall : a fair house of a yonger sone of Sir Wilfrid Lawson 
 marrying the coheir and daughter of Mr Tho : Salkeld 
 Lord therof.t And so downe the River still yow have Other- 
 side, an Ancient old Tower house over Aagainst (sic) plum- 
 land hall and this belongs to the gallant Monsir Orpheur 
 by mariage of his ancestors Long agoe with Sq^' English 
 heir, an ancient family in this Tract : And Then yow have 
 two pretty village Allerby and Cannonby, one Mr Eggles- 
 feild hath a pretty hall house ther ; and cosen to Monsi"" 
 Orpheur and now yow are come to Elm foot again. 
 
 And down the sea side northward yow haue Hayton 
 Castle a fair prospect over an arme oth sea into Scotland 
 
 * According to the pedigree in Hutchinson's Cumberland, vol. ii, 300, Joseph 
 Porter of Weary Hall, who died in 1649, married Ann, daughter of Lancelot 
 Salkeld of Whitehall, and had a numerous family, one of whom, Ann, married 
 Christopher Curwen of Camerton Hall. See also (The Curwens itt ante), but I 
 do not find that any of their sons married a Curwen, and the iriarria.sres of their 
 o-randsons are not given by Hutchinson. Editor. 
 
 + The Lawson pedigree in the county histories wants enlarging : it docs not 
 fjive this marriage. Editor, 
 
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 some six houes (sic) saile to Kirkowbry and koues of Gal- 
 lovve)^ This Hayton Castle and nevvton and bromfeild a 
 Large village beLonging thereunto and much more, be- 
 long to the ancient families of martinford or Martindale, 
 and Scalbie Caslle and maay villages a little below Carlile 
 came to monsi"^ Gulielm' Musgraue by marriage of the 
 heirs of the iorenamed familes : and had other Three 
 brothers not borne to any great fortunes : but Active men 
 in the border service, gott fair means and livings of the 
 tribe tribe (sic) of Musgraues of WestmHand. The now Si'^ 
 William Musgraue of this Hayton Castle Scots Baron' 
 married Sir Rich : Grahams daughter and now liuing ther 
 is great grandchild to y' Mr Willm Musgraue was first 
 here.* 
 
 Not farr of here yow have a Large village called Lang 
 rigg and an ancient hall house and squires famely of the 
 Osmotherleys some 200^^ ^ an And not farr of Mr Berwis 
 of Ilekirk : was a faire estate, but trifled it away wold not 
 Thrive with him ; and wear diuers of them ; and he a 
 burges for Carelile ag' the king in p'lament : and so all 
 the rest ith contry ; and were a family of very good es- 
 teeme : And now not one of name or fame of any of them, 
 nor any man much remembers them or speaks a good word 
 of them.t 
 
 Now I come to the Ancient Abbey of holme cultrum : 
 showes his eminency by this Ruines, The demisnes I thinke 
 belongs to Sir John Ballington of Crockdake, marrying 
 the heir of Late S'' Willm Musgraue, who gott them by 
 mariage of one Squir Callwerlie widoue and his sone 
 maried her daughter Grandmother to the now Lady Bal- 
 
 * Sir Edward Musgrave, not Sir William, married Mary, daughter of Sir Richard 
 Graham of Netherby : his great grandfather VVilHam Musgrave married Isabel, 
 one of the five coheiresses of James Martindale. She died 1597. She brought 
 Newton to her husband ; the other properties he got from his grandfather who 
 married the heiress of the Colvils. Editor. 
 
 t Richard Barwis, or the Great Barwise, M.P. for Carlisle, 1627 to his death 
 164S. A monument to him is in Westward Church, whose inscription is given in 
 Nicolson's Visitation of the Diocese of CarPisle. Editor. 
 
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 lington : and her mother was sister to Sir Tho : Dacres of 
 Leonard Coast in Gisland.* It is a very fruitfull rich 
 soile, and plaine contry all a long the sea sid some six 
 miles but no gentry dwelling in it The King has a Stuart 
 Squire Senhouse of Netherhall, under great Seal, and a 
 pension yearly: and keeps court ther monthly unles some 
 haue begg it since the Kings returne.t 
 
 Then Come back to the Topp of Scidday again from 
 whence comes The river of Cawdey and so downe to 
 Cawdbeck Towne and fair church of 22: p'sonage ^ an. 
 and a very great village and The greatest Lorpp heer- 
 about belonging to the Lord Wharton : and a great coleyery 
 round about it, serues all the Contry up a dozen miles to 
 peareth : And over a more wher the Coles are got, north 
 west ward yow come into west ward ; and a quondam 
 park full of fallow dear : but now vanquisht and all be- 
 longs to Lord Northumb'^land, and a very fair church in 
 the markett Towne of Wigton a little below : and heer 
 yow have a church on the more : no houses very nye 
 Though I thinke it be much frequented with people ther- 
 about, And Roselay, a great faire place for cattle, horses, 
 and linnen cloth, the greatest fair in the north & many 
 other comodities every fortnight on Monday all the sum- 
 mer long on a fair green hill ; and but a few houses about 
 it. 
 
 Ther is another Towne not farr of called Owton That 
 hath a church but I think they be all impropriations for 
 Si'^ Rich ffletcher was sued ith Chancery for mentenance 
 to a preaching minister : And he said, he gaue him as 
 much, as his letters patent prescribed; and he wold not 
 preach, he cold not make him. 
 
 * Ann, eldest daughter of William Musgrave of Crookdake, married a physician, 
 Sir John Ballantine of Carron in Clydesdale. Editor, 
 
 -fSee " The Senhouses, Stewards of Holme," by E. T. Tyson, in the Transac- 
 tions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, vol, 
 vi, p. 126. Editor. 
 
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 Then a little northward yow have, downe the River 
 Caudey The Sceite of the Right Reverend Lord Bishop of 
 Carlile : the Rose Castle and indeed It is a Rosey place, 
 and Ithink the prime Roses of England and all flowers as 
 sone here as any place : nor ever any long snow : and fine 
 parke about it : but now the dear is distroyed : and I haue 
 heard a Tradition ; That this Rose Castle was Sir Andree 
 Hartleys in Edward 2^ time : And he made Earle of Carlile 
 and gouerno'^ of Carlile for his good service agt the 
 Scoots: in Edw : the seconds Time: but sone after con- 
 fiderate with Robert Bruce that gott the Crowne of 
 Scotland : And he was so strong ; and beloued in Carleile 
 and thes contrye : The King could notgett Hartley appre- 
 hended for his Treason : Till the Bishop, Chiuileir Mus- 
 grave, Lord Lucie and Salkeld plotted together and tooke 
 S-^ Andree Hartley Earle of Carelile in his Citty of Carelile, 
 and he was afterwards executed for his Treason And The 
 Bishop had this Rose Castle giuen for his service * and 
 Musgrave had Hartley Castle giuen him, wher S''^ Phillip 
 Musgraue now much dwelleth : and Salkeld, had Corbie 
 Castle for his part all the habitations of Sir Andrew 
 hartley. And so down the Riuer Cawdey to Dalston wher is 
 a very fair church ; And village belonging both to the B : 
 p : And nye hand Little Dalston An ancient K^^ Family : 
 and a faire Tower house Raisd to a great estate 3000^' ^ 
 an by mariage old Sir John dalston marying the heir of 
 Chivileir Warcope of Smardale Tower in WestmHand his 
 sone Sir Georg Dalston maried the Coheir of Tamworth in 
 the South ; both braue gentile gallants and Justiciers : 
 great gamsters never without two or three Roning horses 
 the best in england & venter the 100 pounds frely and 
 brauely attended, dozen Liuery Cloakes Then in fashion 
 servites and braue houskepers : and the now Sir Willyam 
 
 * There is an interlineation in anotlier hand :— "it was o-iven the see by Hen. 
 3d." 
 
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 Dalston ; marries the heir of monsir Bolds ; The now 
 Lady Boldes her mother in Nothinghamshire.* 
 
 A little from Dalston westward yow have a faire ceit 
 and mansion annd {sic) village of Sq Denton of Cardew 
 whose grandmother was sister of old Sir John Dalston ; 
 and his mother sister to the Late S''' Rich : Musgraue som- 
 times of Norton in Yorkshire : And himself monsir Georg 
 Denton his wife the daughter of Mr Georg Grame of 
 nunery vpon the Riuer Eden : and another village called 
 Comersdale and Cawdey runs into the Riuer Eden att 
 Carlile : and my pen to burgh Barrony now nye adjoining. 
 A little above upon- the Riuer of Wample which comes 
 from Ireby : Ther is an ancient Sq"" Seite Towne and 
 family of Briscoes of Crofton : a fair estate 300'' ^ an and 
 as I haue reedd this name Taken from that word frisking 
 of greyhounds : Ther arms being 3 frisking greyhounds 
 and his wife one of Cranfields a southern woman. t 
 
 And now I enter vpon Bourgh Barony : a fair Towne 
 called Thursby and Church and 100'' ^ an and hall house, 
 where the Lords Arundells officer used to reside : And 
 now this Barony belongs to the Duke of Northfolk : by his 
 descent from the Coheir of the Late Lord Dacres of 
 Naward Castle and Gisland : and this Barrony goes downe 
 ten miles to boustat hill the farthest a hauen Towne west 
 war in all England and so an arme of Sea Runs vp some 
 20*y miles farter almost to domfreise in Scotland. 
 
 Nye unto this boostatt hill ther is a fair Towne called 
 Kirkbride and Church of 100'' ^ an belonging to Sir 
 William Dalston : and some villages and ordinarye gentile 
 ceits in this bourgh Barony and one great Towne and very 
 fair Churche called Kirkandrees of 200'^ ^ an : And Mr 
 Aglionby of Carelyle haue some Land and Tenents heer : 
 but all the Royalties and profitts belongs to the Duke of 
 
 * The pedigree of Dalston in Hutchinson's Cumberland omits to say whom Sir 
 John, Sir George, and Sir William Dalston married. Editor. 
 
 t Sir Richard Brisco married Susanna, daughter of Sir Randal Cransfield, as 
 his first wife. Editor. 
 
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 Northfoke : and heer yow may ride over Eden : and in the 
 midst of the sands half a dozen mile into Scotland : And 
 heer and ith Abbie holme (that joins upon it) was Michell 
 Scott a great conjurer, They tell many stories on : That 
 sholde haue brought up the sea to haue made Carelile a 
 hauen Towne : but being set on a devils horseback : and 
 bidd gallop away with all speed to Carelile and never look 
 behinde him and the sea should follow him : but he hear- 
 ing the sea coming at his heels with such a hious (sic) 
 noise riddy to run over him, Looked back And ther it 
 Stopt at at (sic) Boostat hill 8 miles from Carleile. 
 
 Then I goe up south again To the Raize I spoke of that 
 parts Westmorland : ffrom whence running dwne (sic) two 
 miles into a Lake or meer called Withburne : and a pretty 
 gentlemans house called Dale head : and his name Lath 
 100^^ ^ an and so yow come downe the Riuer to Threlkeld 
 Lordship : A very ancient knights ffamily : And great Lord- 
 ship of Tenents and faire Towne and Church but of the 
 p'ish of Graistock : and served by a curate : and hard by 
 Threlkeld but a cold place; and so the Lords thereof for 
 the most part lined in Westmorland The Last Sir Lancelot 
 Threlkeld vsually saying he had three braue houses, one 
 for pleasure : Crosbie in Westm^land wher he had perks 
 full of dear : another yanwath for profit and warmth to 
 line in winter ny pearth and the Third This Threlkeld 
 well stored with tenants and men to go along with him to 
 warrs : And had three coheir : A southern monsir Dudley 
 marrying the eldest & had yanwath and two pickrings 
 sons of a privy councellor : came into this Contry begining 
 of Queen Elizab : maried his other two daughters and had 
 Crosbye and Threlkeld : All now gone and no memory 
 of any of them in loo years.* 
 
 Now as I tell yow This Thelkeld Hall is no great 
 Building : and the habitation of one Sq Ireton A yonger 
 
 *See " The Threlkelds, &c.," by W. Jackson, F.S.A., Transactions Cumberland 
 and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, vols IX and X. 
 Editor. 
 
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 branch of ancient Sq Ireton of Ireton Tower nye unto 
 Egremonde beforesaid : ffor Sir Lancelot Threlkeld lined 
 most at Yanwath : and Crosbie in Westm'^land Two 
 Statlie Tower houses : one called Revensworth ; of the 
 Rauens Timbring in the Timber Trees ther but now not 
 a timber Tree standing : The lands on both sides Threlkeld 
 belonging to Threlkeld Two miles downe by Riuer. 
 
 Yow come to Grisdall northward wher ther is a Church 
 of Graistock p'ish : and many Riuelets coming downe from 
 east side of Skiddy montains Runs into the foresaid 
 Cawdey : and this Grisdall belongs to Graistok castle The 
 River petterell a little aboue arising from a spring runs by 
 Graistoke The ancient Sceit of the Lord Grand Thorpe* 
 of graistoke a great Baron somtimes as I take it, the Lord 
 Dacres maried his heir as I shall tell yow afterward : And 
 the Duke of Norffock hath now this Barrony of Garistok 
 (sic) Castle and much Lands heer belonging thereunto by 
 ther discent of this great grandmother the coheir of the 
 Lord Dacres, and Graistock : And on a hill from Graistoke 
 4 miles west : yow have a yonger branch of dalston of 
 Thaits a faire mansion house 250'' ^ an : his grandmother ; 
 daughter of Sqr Crackenthorp of newbegin in westm^'land 
 but I know not the now Lady therof This place was ancien- 
 tly called Hutton Raph : a younger branch of Hutton John. 
 Then yow come to Heskett a little manno^ house and 
 towne anciently belonging to the Buleys but nou sold to Sir 
 Wilfred Lauson who enjoys it. 
 
 And now I must goe up southward to Glencume Beck 
 that parts Cumberland, & Westmerland on the east ward 
 and presently falls into the great River Eles water or Bales 
 water for theirs the greatest gott in england : Thick as ones 
 arme They come forth of a tarne or meer on Top of mon- 
 taines : how long they stay in this Riuer : but naturall they 
 goe downe every August to the sea : and swim close by 
 the bothome of the water : so as no fflood carries them over 
 
 *Grimthorpe. Editor. 
 
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 the dam set to stopp them ; and catcht in a nett by Mr 
 Huddston of Hutton John in great plenty, And them 
 that getts by becomes great Congers ; and a dainty sea- 
 fish. 
 
 And adjoynig to Glencone beck, Along this side south 
 of Eeleswater fine miles long and almost a mile brode and 
 great store of some Chars Trout and scellies in abondance 
 a very good fish oth the bignes of a heering : And heeryow 
 enter Cowbrey parks full of Redd and fallow deear : and so 
 vp to Matterdale : and two mile down yow have Cowbrey 
 hall : I think the eldest hall* in England of the Britons 
 making but an other at powley a little below I never saw 
 such another : And a great tract of six miles of numerous 
 substantiall tenents husbenmen ; all belonging to Graistok 
 Castle and has a monthly court kept there to recover ther 
 debts, and Trespasses. 
 
 And from Matterdale montaines comes Daker Bek : 
 Almost at the foote therof stand Backer Castle alone : and 
 no more houses about it : And I protest Looks very sorrow- 
 full, for loss of it founders in That huge battle of Touton 
 feild : And that totall Eclips of That great Lord Dacres, in 
 that Grand Rebellion with Lords Northumberland and 
 Westm^'land in Queen Elizabeths time and in the north 
 called Dacres Raide. And their an end of that name yet 
 let me say something for the fame thereof. That This Castle 
 is a very faire Ancient fabrike : 50 yards long and 40 brode 
 at every corner, a little Loging chamber built diamond wise : 
 That the great cann shott might graze and slant, and not 
 batter it : Three stories high : and now in good repaire by 
 the Right Honor^'^ the now Earle of Sussex : and Lord 
 Dacres ; His great great grandmother being heir thereof; 
 and he the owner therof which Lady was maryed to the 
 Lord fines A favorite of King Edward the 4th and so by 
 succession of heirs comes to this Tresgallant and Righ 
 Honor^'*^ and noble Earle : who I beleive Loues it well : 
 
 * Camp ? Editor. 
 
and braue parke belonging theriinto : but the dear di- 
 stroyed and three manners Annext and many braue Tenents 
 answering at the court ther kept And now on the other 
 side the leaf I will giue yow the Rise of this Right Honor^^"^ 
 family The first Lord Dacres from Docto'^ Dawes a 
 Learned Antiquary.* 
 
 Sir Humfrey Dacres Lord of this castle, and thes 
 Lands And the Barony adjoyning of Barton : purchased of 
 Lancaster Lord of Kendll : brother of the Earle of Lan- 
 caster (what more then this of Barton he had I know not : 
 but it seems an heroyick Chiualeir steeles The heir of Lord 
 Moulton of Kirkoswald and Nawward and GilsLand forth 
 of warrick castle the 5*^ year of king Edward the 3d and in 
 the g*'^ year of the same king had his ^don for marying her ; 
 and created Lord Dacres, and Moulton : In King Henry 
 the Eights Time The yong Lord Dacres ; steels the female 
 heir of the Lord Graistoke forth of Broham Castle besides 
 peareth ; wher the Lord Clifford had gott her of the King 
 for his sons manage : And therupon was the statute made 
 of felony to marry an heir : And thus became the Lord 
 Dacres decorate with all the hono^^ and Lands of the 
 Lord Graistok a very great Baron : but The now Earle 
 of Sussex Ancestor had married the female heir of the Lord 
 Daccres in King Edward the 4"^ Time, before the Lands 
 of Graistock came to the Lord dacres house. 
 
 And a little above Daker Kastle on Daker beck stands 
 Hutton John : An Ancient Sq^ family, and fair Tower 
 mansion, of Hutton : I have heard They could show 
 evidence of a squire Hutton Ther before King Edward the 
 Confessor : but Mr Andree Huddleston 2^ son of Sir Job 
 Huddleston of Millome Castle : maried Mary the daughter 
 and coheir of The : Hutton : whose mother was daughter 
 
 * Lancelot Dawes, D.D., of Barton Kirke, vicar of Barton, rector of Ashby, 
 prebendary of Carlisle. He died 165S. See Bishop Nicolson's Visitation, and 
 "Barton Kirke," by M. VV. Taylor, F.S.A., Transactions Curnberland &c. 
 Society, vol. iv, p. 399. Editor. 
 
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 of Bellingham of Burnishead in Westm'^^land : and brought 
 vp with the Lord Pars daughter at Kendall whom That 
 King Henry the eight married : That Queen sent for that 
 Mary Hutton to be mother of maids of hono"^ And this Mary 
 huddleston was born at Court ; and Queen Mary : then the 
 yong princes her Godmother : I haue seen a peece of gilt 
 plate her Godbarn gift : And so this family was always 
 Catholicks and She grandmother to Mr John Huddleston 
 of the Queens Chaple : But his nevy Esq'' Huddleston 
 now owner of this Hutto John : a great protestant : so 
 as many more of the papist familys : Ther old Ancestors of 
 Queen Maryes time being dead and gone ; They flye to 
 Church as fast as can be : not one for looo'' papist in my 
 time and this estate 300^^ #- an : * 
 
 And on daker beck a little below going into heimont 
 riuer : yow have Daleman : an Ancient Squires house and 
 fair mansion : quondam Mr Laton : and somtimes Knigh*^ 
 of Malta of it Long agoe Lately now come in the hands : of 
 Squire Warlope of Tamer feild (?) Yorkshire, by mariage of 
 Mada"^ Isabella eldest coheire Therof : 300^^ ^ an : + 
 
 And a little above two Large Villages: Nubegin, & 
 Stainton all of p'ish of Dacre wher ther is a fair Church 
 hard by the Castle and two ancient protrait monuments in 
 it : one the Ancestor of some of the Lords Dacres of that 
 Castle, The other a K^ of Malta lying cross Legt of the 
 Latons of Dalmaine, and anothergreat Towne called Soulby 
 of this p'ish and y*^ minister hath not ten pound a year but 
 almost lines of the p'ish benevolence : And two miles of yow 
 have Newton and Caterlen wher ther is a church at Newton 
 
 * A clock with a gilt face and ebony is preserved at Hutton John and is the 
 " peece of gilt plate " mentioned in the text. Editor. 
 
 John Huddleston (Father Huddleston) saved the life of Charles H at Worces- 
 ter, and administered the sacrament of the church to him on his death bed. 
 Father Huddleston was made superintendent of the Queen Dowager's chapel in 
 Somerset House, and died in 1704, at the age of 96. The county histories differ 
 as to his exact position in the Huddleston pedigree, but the forthcoming paper on 
 the Huddlestons by W. Jackson, F.S.A., will clear up the difficulty. Editor. 
 
 f Sir Edward Hasell purchased Dalemain in 1665, from the six coheiresses of 
 Layton. Editor. 
 
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 but no better benefice And Anciently belongs to Sir Jobn 
 Lowther of Lowther, who hath a pretty dimisne and Lands 
 there called Sewborvvains, but the rectory and partonage 
 in the Bishop of Carelile and let by concurrant Lease. 
 
 Just in the midst of Cumbe''land 24*^ miles to west seas 
 at Workington & 20^ miles to Allan water eastward that 
 parts it from Northumberland, I come to Cumberland 
 Ward, in the south wherof, 20 miles from Scotland : and 
 in the head of the Ancient forrest of Englewood, is sceited 
 the ffamous Towne and hono'^ of Penrith : A very fine 
 Towne, & great markett and merchants for all kinde of 
 comodities : And a grand fair on Whitson Tuesday : And 
 every fornight Till Lamas ; for all things both horse and 
 cattle and well wolde sheep, and ewes & Lambs in 
 especially. 
 
 And in quondam Times a very fine Castle ; as walls yet 
 standing about the Court Expres : And cohort of horse kept 
 ther : And the great Earle of Warwick disdaind not to 
 be marshall Steward & captaine of thonro"^ (sic) of penrith 
 & villages adjoining, called in Queen Elizabeths Time The 
 Queen Hamms wher they have a Court monthly at Penrith 
 for recovery of ther debts & Trespasses : This Towne 
 being a free Towne for all persons ; which makes it more 
 frequented, none mans person can be arrested ; but his 
 goodes may : And is governed by a Marshall ; & Learned 
 Stewards of the Court : and both having 20*^ nobles fee, 
 and patents under Great Seal ; and a Bailife under them 
 And an ancient demisne belonging to the Castle of 200^^ #- 
 an. and late in the Queens jointure : but no gentry Resides 
 heer : but an ancient family of the Hottons of the Tribe of 
 Hotto John ; haue a fair Tower house, and mansion of A 
 noble knight and justice peace : Sir William Hutton : Elder 
 brother of the honest Judge Flutton of Golborouge in 
 Yorkshire borne here.* 
 
 *Sir Richard Hutton, justice of the Common Picas and fathcr-in-Iaw to Sir 
 Phihp Musgrave. Editor. 
 
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 Heer is a very fair curch but vicarigh scarce 40'' 'lj> 
 an : Altho the Tithes of corne be 200'' li> an : and a little 
 from hence The little Tovvne of Carelton a fair house and 
 Ancient gentile family : from whence I thinke all the 
 fameous Carltons of England descended. 
 
 I was Told from Mr. Page himself: A stranger gentle- 
 man coming to the Crown Inn at peareth prayd his host 
 to get him oth discret M" of the Town to supe with him : 
 And he brought this Mr Page the Marshall or Steward : and 
 Scoolm"" The Stranger said he came to see the antiquities : 
 and drew forth a paper that said that Sir Hugh Cesario 
 lined in disert place in a Rocke ; a marshall man : like 
 knight errant : killing monster man & beast : The place 
 he lined in caled Isey perils, wher a little from thence is 
 3 vaults in a Rocke 100 may may live in : and he was 
 buried in the north side of the Curch ith green feild : 
 & they went to the Church and on the north side ther is 2 
 crosses distant the Lenth of a man one at head, and other 
 at feet And was opened when I was Scoller ther : by 
 William Turner & there found the great Long Shank 
 bones and other bones of a man and a broad Sword besides 
 fonde then by the Church wardens.* 
 
 And now I come to giue yow the bounder of this Ancient 
 forrest of Englewood : In the South begins at Heimont 
 Brigg of Three fair arches and a little village wher the 
 assise for WestmHand was kept in Edward 2'^ time in 
 Mayburgh Castle. The platforme remaining to be seen : 
 and a King Arthurs Round Table of 100 yards about and 
 ceits ; about for spectators ; and on each side a way for 
 Cheviliers to come on the Ronde Table : and break ther 
 
 Lances. t 
 
 And so from Heimont riuer Brigg the bonder of Engle- 
 wood forrest goes downe The said riuer of heimont some 
 
 f It is not impossible that the " strano^er sjentleman " was Camden. Editor. 
 
 * Plans of tliese earthworks by Mr. C. W. Dymond, are prepared for publica- 
 tion in the Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Archaeological and 
 Antiquarian Society. Editor. 
 
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 Three miles eastward falls into Eden full of fine Trout fish : 
 and so downe this famous river Eden north westward : 
 & upon the point of Thes Two Rivers : stands that fair 
 fine and bewtiful pallace of Edenhall orchards, and gardens, 
 but non of forbidden fruits and all fruits delicate, and 
 pleasant walkes as tine as Chelsey feilds ; The fair Riuer 
 Eden glyding like the Thames alonge ; The ancient man- 
 sion of that Renowened Cheueileir Heroe Sir Simond 
 Musgraue The great grandfather of the Trew Renowned 
 Trojane : Sir Phillip Musgraue K' Bronet (sic) Governo'' of 
 Carelile Castle Citye and Corporation and the contry 
 adjacent : whose grandmother was daughter of old Sir 
 Henry Curwen of workington : his mother the Lord 
 Whartons daughter: and the daughter, of S"" Rich Hutton : 
 judg of the comon pleas his wife late deceased. Richard 
 Musgraue his father a braue gallant was one of K'" oth bath 
 at decoring prince Henry : prince of Wales and after- 
 wards one of first Knigt Barone*'' of England,* Sir Philip, 
 musgraves father. 
 
 Then yow come downe along Eden Riuer by Salkeld ; 
 Lasenby villages Two fair churches in them at Salkeld the 
 Arcdeacon : but of no great valew : And so down the River 
 to the village of Armathwait The village and fair Tower 
 house of Sq Skelton of 300'' <{j> an : and his grandmother 
 daughter, of Senhouse of netherhall : his mother sister of 
 the said Sir Richard Musgraue K' Baron' And his wife 
 Lettice Birdett ; of the birdetts of warrickshire Late 
 
 * Sir Simon Musgrave.=Julian, 
 
 I d. of Elleker. 
 
 Christopher Musgrave.=Jane, 
 
 I d. of Sir Henry Curwen. 
 
 Sir Richard Musgrave, = Frances, 
 
 ist baronet. | d. of Philip Lord Wharton. 
 
 SiK Philip Musgrave.=Julian, 
 
 d. of Sir Richard Hutton. 
 
 Editor. 
 
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 deceased and The now Sq'' John Skelton hath to wife, a 
 daughter of Sq"^ Salvine of Bishoprick Durham.-'^ 
 
 Then from the River inward to the contry ; vow haue 
 plumpton park now belonging to S"" John Lowther of Low- 
 ther : A many tenents & gentry frehold ther : This was 
 disparkt in Henry the eights time : And one Jack a 
 Musgraue a metled man gott a Lease of loo years of it : 
 And planted hue of his sones at hue severall houses in it 
 some 200^^ some 50'' ^ an etc. and many Tenents besides : 
 that Lease expired : the Earle of Arran begd it of King 
 James : and sold it to old Sir Jon Lowther : This Jack a 
 Musg. was so metled a man : as the Contry people wold 
 say, if they had a spirited boy y' he would even be a jack 
 of Musgraue. 
 
 Adjoining heerunto the Territories of thai; princlike pal- 
 lace of Sir Geog ffletcher P'lament man for this contry : 
 And is called button ith forrest A very braue monsir : great 
 houskep'^ hunter, and horsecowser, never wf^out the best 
 runing hors or Two the best he can gett : his grandfather 
 Si"" Rich ffletcher Eq'm arrt' : purchased this Hutton hall : 
 of Sq Lanclott Hutton And maried Barbara Crakenthorp 
 of newbigin in Westmorland, And Sir Henry ffletcher Kt 
 barone* his sone maried Cartherina Dalston, eldest daughter 
 of Sir Georg Dalston A Colonell in the kings warrs and 
 slaine, at Raising the seig of Chester : and now his sone 
 Sir Georg ffletcher first marries the Lord Coirains daugter 
 
 * The pedigree in Whelan's Cumberland, p. 339, does not agree with the text. 
 Lancelot Skelton. =Cathkrine, 
 
 d. of Thomas Dalston of 
 Dalston Hall. 
 
 Julian, =JoHN Skelton. = Barbara Fletcher. 
 d. of Christopher Musgrave. [ 4- 
 
 RiCHARD Skelton. =Lettice, 
 
 I d. of Burdett. 
 
 John Skelton. = Elizabeth, 
 
 d. of Gerard Salvin. 
 
 Editor. 
 
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 deceased : And since the Lady maria Johnston : daughter 
 to the Earle of Quinborowe, and Lord Jonston. an estate of 
 250^' ^ an : 
 
 Then yow come down northward still to Heskett a very 
 fair Church but small benifiec The Tithes all in huixters 
 hands : Though this Church be the Cristing and burying 
 place ; of a great many hamlets and villages round about : 
 And then yow have Wethereld Abbye A priory of Great 
 Account : and prior parke large Territories : a family of 
 gentry of Skeltons ther liuing : And the newbegin ; where 
 ther lined some of the fryers brethren : in a fair Tower house: 
 
 1 think belonging now to Mr. Graham oth Nunnery : And 
 now yow haue Coothill, Scotby, Carlton, Wragmire, Scot- 
 bie,herreby,bocherby: Aglionby, an Ancient Squires family 
 his braue mansion house in Carelile :* This Sq"^ Aglionby 
 an ancient Chiuileir family : now a Lawier, his Capitall 
 mansion fairest house & Recorder of Carlile : having long 
 agoe, removed their dwelling from Aglionby to Carelile but 
 
 2 miles of for more security & more comand ag' the 
 Scotts And so I come to Warwick briggs of fiue Large 
 Aarches {sic) ; and fair Towne and Sq'^ hall house at it and a 
 very fine salmon lishing : And his name Sq^ Warwick mar- 
 ried Mr Skeltons daughter of Amithawit who since I know 
 not : t but a good jest of old Laird Warwick in Queen Eliz- 
 beth time the The man I knew well : wold not stick to lend 
 a friend an oath for his advantage, and was a good marshall 
 man & comrad of moss tropers : And having committed 
 some notorious offence : was sent for to th Councill boord : 
 He like not to come there and be at Charges : And he 
 feignes himself sick : keeps his chamber : makes one of his 
 men make ready and his horse brought to the dore : The 
 sick Laird Getts A great Balk Jack full of bear And drinks 
 to his man : but he staid not to plegd him : for while the 
 
 *In Fisher Street, now the Mechanics' Institute. Editor. 
 
 f Thomas Warwick married Frances, daughter of John Skelton, and died in 
 1654 : his 2nd son Thomas succeeded him, but does not appear to have been 
 known to Sandford. Editor. 
 
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 m'" was dnnkinf]^, the man gott upon horse : swore That his 
 m'' was sick he made oath at Councill horde, in p'ill of 
 death : if lie held (at black Jack) as he left him he could 
 not be alive : And so never came at Councill horde and that 
 served for his pearance & the busines dyed in a little time. 
 
 And now I come to Carelile That stands vpon the mouth 
 of Cadey Riuer and peterell going ther into Eden Riuer : 
 will goe vp south to the Spring head of peterall riuer : a 
 little above Graistock Castle sixteen miles miles south of 
 Carlile and first yow have Ther vpon Blencow; an Ancient 
 sq^ family : and one Knight of Late, Sir Henry Blencow : 
 grandfather of the now Sq"^ Blencoe : made it a very fair 
 house of two Towers, and married Grace Sandford sister 
 of the first Sir Rich Sandford of howgill in westmHand : 
 And a yonger branch of the Sandfords of Askam Tower 
 nye hand : and Crister Blencoe married Mary Robinson 
 of Rooby hall Yorkshire, and The now Sqr Blencoe 
 marries Anne Laton : Eldest daughter to Sqr William 
 Laton of dalemain : 300^' ^ an.* 
 
 And neer unto Blencoe is jonbie a fair Towne and hall 
 house quonda' The Musgraues of baton: and giue it to yon- 
 ger sone, whose female heir maries one Mr Wiuill of 
 Yorkshire who Lately sold it, to Mr Williams a Welshman, 
 came downe Steward of Graistock Castle and all the Lands 
 here belonging to the Late Earle of Arondell.* 
 
 Adjoining yow haue severerall (sic) villages : Lamanby, 
 AUandby, Skelton Vnthank all nye vnto Hutton, and be- 
 longing to S'"^ Georg ffletcher : And then yow have Sowerby 
 and then you have the Spearmen of Castle Sowerby t no 
 Castle now a Large Terretory of the Kings Tenents, and a 
 Church & p'sonage but of small valew : And so you come 
 to Seberme, a Church Towne to, but oth like valew. 
 
 * See a paper on these two halls and their owners by M. \V. Taylor, in Trans- 
 actions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archseolog-ical Society, 
 vol. xi. Editor. 
 
 t Certain estates in the parish of Castle-Sowerby, known as Red Spears, were 
 held by the tenure of riding through Penrith on Whit Tuesday, brandishing their 
 spears. Editor. 
 
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 And so To Squire Dentons of VVarnell ; a fair house and 
 estate, and Ancient famaly, Translated hither from Denton 
 Tower besides noward exchangd with Lord Dacres Long 
 agoe for this place : a learned Lawyer and 300^* ^ an.* 
 
 And so to highgate castle a pretty little Tower house ; 
 The owner Sq^ Chrtopher Richmond a very Ancient 
 gentile family ; and his father Mr Crister Richmond 
 married the sister : of Sir William Chater of Croft briggs 
 Yorkshire and This Sq*^ now liuing marries Mr. Vaux his 
 daughter ; an ancient Sq"" familie and branch of the Lord 
 Vaux of Gilsland maried the coheir of caterlen hall a faire 
 Tower house and Tenents : yong monsir Richmond liuing 
 ther marrie The daughter of Sir Wilfrid Lawson : an 
 estate of 300^' ^ an.t 
 
 Then yow comes to Blekhall an Large manno"^ and Lord- 
 ship of The Lord Dacres : And the ancient Sq'" family of 
 the Kirkbrides: Lord of Brathwait, and Ellerton, and many 
 finer houses, his dwelling at Howes and Ellerton, late 
 high Sheriff of Cumberland Two yeares together : his 
 grandfather Bernard maried Dorothy Dudley, of Yanwath 
 Hall: And Rich: Kirkbride his father, and Colonell in the 
 Royall warrs: married Mr Mayplates daughter a Southern 
 gentleman :'t and this Squire Barnard Kirbride marryes : 
 Sir Tymothy ffetherstons daughter : An estate 300^' ^ an : 
 
 West Adjoynig Sq"" Thomas Broham Ancient heir male 
 of all the Sq"^ brohams of broham hall in Westm"^ built 
 
 * Sir Thomas Uenton, recorder of Carlisle, married Letitia Vachell : portraits 
 in the Town Hall, Carlisle. Editor. 
 
 t See "The Richmonds of Highhead," Transactions Cumberland and West- 
 morland Antiquarian and Archseological Society, vol. ii, p. loS. 
 I 2 3 
 
 Anne Mayplett. = Christopher Richmond. = Isabella Clayton. = Eleanor Beidcy. 
 
 IMabel Vaux. = Christopher Richmond. = Magdalen Huddleston. 
 
 I 1 2 3 ^ 
 
 Mary Lawson. = Christopher Richmond. = ? = Isabella Towerson. 
 
 Editor. 
 
 X Edward Maplet was rector of Clifton and Prebendary of Carlisle, appointed 
 
 1584. He always signs as " Maplet " in the Dean and Chapter books. Editor. 
 
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 a very fine house at Scalls : And lives there his grandfather : 
 Henry Broham maried Jane Wharton, daughter of Squire 
 Wharton of Kirkby thure Westm'land : his father Tho : 
 married daughter to Sq'' Daniell fleminig of Skirwith, and 
 cousin to Sqr ffleming Lord of Ridall and this Squir Henry 
 broham marryes faire Mrs Slee of Carhle a Joviall Gentle- 
 man ; and estate 300^'. 
 
 Then I goe to the Highest east part of Cumberland 
 and on the east part of the fair River Eden : Comes downe 
 from the hihgh (sic) montaine of Cross fell Blecnkerne beck : 
 parts Comerland And Westm'^land and Blenkern Tovvne 
 and Church there ; An Ancient Squir family of the Loughs : 
 but none of any great Eminency now : a very large p'ish 
 Golgath, Skirwith, Langanby ; The most famous horse 
 course Ther for a free plate on midsomerday yearly : 
 And The first founder thereof: Sq'' Richard: Sandford : 
 yonger brother of Thomas Sandford of Askame in West- 
 mHand, was bred vp with the Earle of Northumb'"land 
 Mr of This horse, and a braue Horsman : p'suaded the 
 Lord Wharton, And The Cheuileir Musgraues who had 
 braue breed of horses : And many of the contry gentry to 
 contribute to a prise of plate of 20'' yearly, and the 
 famous horse course of England, and Scotland ; the quon- 
 dam Duke of Buckengham had horse called Conqueror : 
 And the Earle of Morrayes wily horse ffox : runing heer 
 for 100^' but the Conqueror conquest him & won the 
 money : though the night before Ther was The Terriblest 
 blast was ever blowen : churches Towers Trees steeples 
 houses all feling The furie of the furies thereof for without 
 ^adventure The diuell a stir whether of England or Scot- 
 land I cannot tell but the English horse got the prise : The 
 great ffores of woods was so blowen done cross the way 
 as we had much adoe to ride thorow them yet not so bad 
 a blast as vsurping Oliver had, when the deuill blew him 
 out off this world, God kowes (sic) whither. 
 
 Then yow have the Large p'ish of Adinghame The 
 pastor sceit at Salkeld a fine ^sonage of the patronage of a 
 
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 college in Cambrige, Mr. Aglionby pJastor ther ; but an 
 impropriation the church standing at Glassonby and 
 severall Townes ; Camelsby : marwonby : and many other 
 hamlets belonging therunto And adjoynig an other little 
 p'ish of ousbie and a church ther: And another little 
 p'ish of newbegin and a church ther ; A very fair house 
 the Ancient Sceit and hall : of an Ancient knights family 
 of Crakenthorps two of which was slaine at Towton feilds 
 in Yorkshire on the side king Henry the sixt : this family 
 Lord of both the said p'ishes. 
 
 Then northward on the river of the said Eden : standed 
 the capitall Grand Castle of Kirkoswold : and very line 
 Church ther, and quondam a colledg : now the Braue man- 
 sion house of the Late Sir Tymothy ffetherstone Colonell 
 of the kings side ; taken at Wigan wher the late Lord 
 Wythrington was slaine : This Sir Timothy was Taken 
 prisoner; and executed by beheading at Chester; by the 
 comand of unworthy Colonell Milton thoug the said K* 
 had fair querf given him. 
 
 This great Castle of Kirkoswald was once the fairest 
 fabricks that ever eyes Looked upon : The hall 1 have 
 seen lOO yards long : And the great protraiture of King 
 Brute : lying in the end of the Roofe of this hall : And all 
 his succeeding successors kings of Great Britaine, pro- 
 trait to the waste, ther visage hatts, feathers, garbs and 
 habits, in the Roofe of this hall : now Translated to N award 
 Castle wher they are placed in the Roofe of ye hall, and at 
 the head thereof; and a very faire ancient monument of 
 the memory of the kings of Great Britaine are in all 
 England : An This Castle was the Ancient pallace : of the 
 Lord Molton marying the Lord Vaux his heir Lord of 
 Naward & Gilsland, and afterward of the Last Lord 
 Dacres : And now come by lineall discent to the Tres- 
 gallant° The Earles of Sussex : and Land adjoining and 
 many braue parks and villages beloning therunto.* 
 
 * For Kirkoswald Castle, see a paper by AI. W. Taylor, F.S.A. Transactions 
 yol. ii, p. I. Editor. ' 
 
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 In this Grand Castle I was some sixty years agoe, when 
 Ther was many fair Toures ; and Chambers : and Chapels : 
 and in the east end, of one behinde the Altar ther was a 
 Crucifix in the window with the protrait of Christ, and the 
 manner how he was crucified therupon : And a substantial! 
 subsibdy yeoman man Ther Askte me what picture That 
 was, and I told him, the picture of Christ Crucified : And 
 he said that he never knew so much of Christs Crucifying 
 and his dolorous death and sufferings & pashion. 
 
 So as we may hereby see : that pictures is most proper for 
 contemplation : The puritanicall and Jesuiticall practice of 
 mentall prayer : for we be more taken, and sensibly feeling 
 with the sight of any mans sufferings scourging hang draw 
 and quarte"^ then with either hearing or Reading thcrof. 
 
 On the east, a little from Kirkoswald yow haue Melberby : 
 an ancient Sq'^ hall house of the name of Threlkeld ; yonger 
 branch of Sir Lanclott Threlkeld of Threlkeld and fair 
 Towne and church Ther; and p'sonage some 60'' ^ an. 
 
 Now still northward yow haue Mr Grahames of the nunry 
 100^^ ^ an : and so along to anstable and Croglaine, fair 
 house Late Sir Charles Howards, now sold awaye : and so 
 to an other Crogline Cherch Towne : belonging to the Lord 
 Wharton : and so along the fellside to Carelaton, Cowinton 
 great Townes and Laird of Skarr hill, quondam a great 
 Conjurer : and on a Christmas day ith morne, he and his 
 people att a great haggis bagg pudden brekfast. The diuell 
 came and flyed away with pudden, and hous end &c and 
 next Hayton a Church Towne and p'sonage of 66^' ^ an. 
 
 Then yow come to Corbie Castle The Ancient Sceit of 
 the K" family of Salkeld, and now not one oth name Left 
 in 60*^' years And this sold by the Last Tho : Salkeld sold 
 to the Great Lord William Howard third sone of Tho : the 
 great Duke of Norfocke, and greatgrandfather to the now 
 Earle of Carelile, and grandfather of the now braue monsir 
 ffracis Howard a graet (sic) houskeper and hors courser. And 
 in all joviall gallantr expert : and beloued of all men ; and 
 Lord of this Corbie Castle his mansion house, and hath 
 
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 many townes adjacent and estate 2000" ^ an, and his 
 mother sister to the Late Lord Wythrington and his 
 wife dauj^hter to one of famous familyes of the Gerards in 
 Lancashire, and so to Crosbic, and some other hamlets : I 
 come to say somwhat of Carelile. 
 
 Carelile is a very faire Cittie : and fairest walls of any 
 Towne in England : stands vpon the flux of two fair riuers, 
 Cawday, & peterell flowing into Eden just under The 
 walls of the Castle : a faire bridge over Eden of 5 broad 
 Arches, And the castle vpon a little Hill ; and fair prospect 
 Rampiers, Orchards and Gardens ; and fruits very early but 
 the Castle in no very great repair, but well fortified for 
 defence, and the heroyike Sir Phillip Musg. Gervero'" 
 therof makes a shift and somthing fornisht it for himself 
 and the garrison soldiers to Lodg in : and with S'' Tho : 
 Glenham kept it for the king a whole year against both 
 English and Scoth armies* And this a very Ancient 
 Bishops Dioces : and fair Cathedall church : dedicated to 
 the most blessed Virgin Mary ; a Dean, & Chapter of fower 
 prebends of 200^' ^ an a peece, and a braue quire of Canons 
 and Orgains Thervnto beloning : And The Bishop has a 
 faire house Through he Hue most part at Rose Castle, yet 
 comes for the most part every Sonday to preach heere : 
 yow have hear another little church of S* Cuthbert. And 
 vpon Stanwix bank beyond the bridg an other church, And 
 some houses : and two miles up the river The towne of 
 Rikarbie, and Scalbie Castle, and diuers petty hamlets & 
 . townes thereto adjacent somtimes the Lands of Sir Edward 
 Musgraue of Hayton but now solde To Mr Gilpin a quon- 
 dam preacher of the fatall p'lament and his wife Mr 
 Briskows daughter of Crofton brethren of confusion in 
 ther braines ; knew what they wolde not have but knew 
 not what they wold have if they might choose. t 
 
 * October, 1644 to June, 1645. Editor. 
 
 t The Rev. Richard Gilpin, rector of Greystoke, which he resigned in conse- 
 quence of the Act of Uniformity. He was afterwards offered, and declined the 
 bishopric of Carlisle, Editor 
 
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 Now beyond Eden hij^h vnto the fells : yow have Alston 
 mooie in The head wherof springs the famous Riuer of 
 Tine and Runs downe Through the middle of Alstone more, 
 and by Alston more church but poore benefice Runs downe 
 through Northumberland and to the sea east ward below 
 newcastle, a great hauen Towen ; or Cittye Ther growing 
 no corne in this Alstone Moore but a rich grassing ground, 
 and great herds of cattle, and flocks of sheep, and the 
 Inhabitants a substantiall able people : and Baron Hilton 
 once Lord therof; sold them lately to Baronet Ratcif of 
 Dilston, and a little bejonde yow have Allan water ; which 
 runs into the Tine Riuer, And parts Cumberland and 
 northumberland on the east : and a little below Auston 
 church northward yow haue a faire house called Reiner- 
 home of a yonger branch of the Leard Whitfeild of 
 Whitfeild near ther unto in Northumberland And then 
 yow have Emsaugh, and backlough, wher some of the 
 Musgraue, one of them once called woode sword inhabited. 
 And Then come into northumberland wher the little riuer 
 powtrose parts it from Cumberland : we come to Gilsland 
 The riuer Erding coming downe Thorough it And many 
 houses Townes and villages 9 miles to naward Castle the 
 very fair, and pleasant mansion house of the Righ* Honor^'^ 
 Earle of Carlile Lies Lowe, and a very warme contry and 
 pleasant woods gardens groves full of fallow deer feed on 
 all somer time ; braue venison pasties and great store of 
 Reed dear on the montains and white wilde cattle with 
 blak ears only ; on the moores : and black heath cocks and 
 brone more cockes : and ther pootes, a delicate dianty 
 feeding as pheasants and plenty. 
 
 But the Ancient sceit of this Gilsland was over the 
 water of Erding vpon a hill called Erdington towne and a 
 castle ther, and a house ther yet called Casteeds, wher the 
 castle stood ; And giuen by the great Lord meschins To 
 a Collonel of his : But Bueth the Lord of this Gilsland 
 wold not part with it willingly : but with Gillemont Lord 
 of Triermaine kept it with the swords, as Long as they 
 
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 could ; and then fledd into Scotland ; and made many in- 
 roods continually witli moss Tropers : and many often killed 
 on both sides, so as they weary with continual fisting ; 
 began to thinke of a comprimise ; and a Triste (as they 
 call it oth border) and Time apointed for to agree tlier 
 feuds : The Enghsh monsir (I have forgott his name) 
 Traitoriouslye Laid an Ambush and killed Bueth : and so 
 kept Gilsland in quiet afterwards : but This traitorous 
 fact, and murder, Sitt so close to his soule, and conscience, 
 so much Trobled with greif of minde ; as he build The 
 Abbie of Leonard cost in a very pleasant place and gaue 
 Erdington, and all the Lands on the west side of Erdeng 
 water to the Abby Abbye {sic) now the fair mansion house, 
 and estate of Sir Tho : Dacres : his mother Mr= Saikeld of 
 Corby Castle; and his wife Sir Thomas brathwaits daughter 
 of warcope WestmHand 500'' ^ an. 
 
 Two mile west from n award yow haue Branpton : a 
 pretty markett Toune ; And church of 100^' Ip- an parsonage 
 and a fair court hall ; wher corte is monthly kept for 
 recovery of debts in Gilsland : And fair parks and full of 
 fallow dear: and downe along yow come to Askerton a 
 Tower house ; and a little from brampton yow have Come 
 Catch a good pretty hall house, of a branch of Mosgraue 
 of Hayton Castle who married fair Mabella Carnabie, (a ny 
 kinswoman To the old Lady Ogle the now Duke of 
 Newcastles Grandmother) who brought forth braue metled 
 musgraue Tom of Comecatch : who plaide many braue 
 planks in his life time and dyed in p . . . And so yow 
 have some fine Tovv'nes and hamlets To Bewcastle not 
 much worth the mentioning : but playd many mad pranks 
 in old time with there Moss Troping and Rank Theeves 
 both to England and Scotland and pretty Legends told of 
 them ; wherof I will give a true one over the leaf and so 
 to Beucastle. 
 
 Ther was alwayes A cap . . . 
 
49 
 
 There is another page of the MS. which has been torn up the 
 middle and the piece lost. Apparently it contained Kinmont Willie's 
 escape from Carlisle Castle and some other things. Editor. 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 I SEE lately a Booke concerning serall grants, & demises of pts 
 & percells of the manno^'"* messuages, Lands Tenem*''' and 
 hereditaments of the right Honor'^^°ffrancis Earle ofCumb'land as well 
 within the fforest of Nycholl, and the manno^'^ of Authereth, Liddall 
 and Randelington, within the same fforest, and the debatable Lands, 
 Bewcastle & Bewcastle Dale within the County of Cumb'^'Iand as of 
 the Tithes of the Rectory of Kirkby thure with the Rents, boones 
 service and other things contracted by Roger Sotherbye Esq Cuthbe'"' 
 Curwen Clerke p'son of Arthurett his L'ps loving frinds : Stephen 
 Taylor, Andree Oglethorp gntle"""^" Georg Heles, and James ffookes 
 servants to the said Earle by vertue of Comission for demising the 
 Mannoi"® and Lands following — 
 
 Imprimis Nicohl fforrest : Randelington : 
 
 Rand Langtowne : Peartree. 
 
 Burnfoote : Rone Sand bede 
 
 Warfall : Crowdknovv : 
 
 Oversall : Langtowne 
 
 Skarbanck : Peth : 
 
 Granock hall : Mille Towne : 
 
 Redbanck : Mote Towne 
 
 Reddinge : Hyh Tree : 
 
 dowgill crooke: Baxtogill 
 
 Glendining: Eastowne 
 
 Rose Trees : plumpe 
 
 Midope : Mosband 
 
 ffoule hall :* ffowe towne 
 Bayting bush, and Kirkande^'' 
 Gaurds mill hill 
 
 * Dcniisne Lands in his Lopps owne hands xxiij February 1C09. 
 
 Note in the MS. 
 
50 
 
 Netherby : milles : ffaud : 
 
 Hewcaatle let to John Musgraue at 20" V an.'- 
 
 TherChefceiteatt Nytherby ; and planted ther Sons at these severall 
 places, many of them Hall houses and Tenents and Townes and doinge 
 service of Riding with there Lairds by Turnes : and shering plowing 
 and all other service, paying certaine rents & fines at ther incomes: 
 Rent geese, and henns : & many other deuties till this day: all 
 Starke moss Tropers, and stark Theves : both to England & Scot- 
 land utlawed : yet ever seen : because they give intelligence forth of 
 Scotland & wold rise 400 horse upon a Rade of the English into 
 Scotland at any time. The Leirds kept Themselves from Theving : 
 and a comon saying The father Toth plow ; & sone toth bough & 
 behanged and the mother v/olde say : fie ride, Rowlee, houghs ith pott, 
 when Last peece of bef was ith pott, Ride for more or dye. Late in 
 Queen Elizabeths time Jock oth peirtree had his brother in Carleil jale ; 
 ready to be hanged and Mr Salked Sheriff of Comberland lived at 
 Corby Castle his eldest sone in a side coate at the gate playing. Jake 
 oth Peirtree comes by; gives the child an aple and says " M^' will yow 
 ride " takes him up before him : carries him to Scotland and neer wold 
 part with him till he had his brother home, and safe from the gallowes 
 Sir Rich : Grame was a yonger son of Fargus Late oth the 
 Plumpe : Came on foote to London, and gott entertained into the Late 
 Grand Duke of Buckenghams Service: having some sparke of witt, 
 and skill in mosetroping & horse course : so as In short the Duke 
 made him M^' of his horse: & by consequence; M'" of the kinges ; 
 wherof the Duke was M^' and became a complete Courtier : and 
 he & eshburham all the servants the prince & duke had into Spain with 
 them : After the Dukes death bought all thes Lands of the Earle of 
 Cumbe^'land : build a braue house at Netherby and Bucastle : and his 
 grand child Sir Rich : Grame K*^ Baron* now enjoyes it 1500^' '^ an.t 
 
 * By Tradition ; two brothers of Montrose of the name of Graham came and 
 planted themselves here from Scotland in Edward the Seconds Time here in 
 England : and had all these Lands except Bewcastle. Note in the MS. 
 
 f All the above is an interpolation on the fly leaf to Sandford's MS., in Machel, 
 and not part of the MS. itself, as stated 2 B. & N. 466. It is in a different hand 
 to the body of the MS. in 6, Machel's collection, but not in Machel's hand, or 
 Bp. Nicolson's. Editor. 
 
51 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Abbey Holme, 31 
 
 Addincjham, 43 
 
 Aglionby, Mr., vicar of Adingliain, 44 
 
 , squire, recorder of Carlisle, 
 
 30, 40 
 Ainstable, 45 
 Allan Water, 47 
 Allerby Village, 26, 41 
 Alston, 47 
 
 Armathwaite, 14, 3S 
 Armorial Bearings : — 
 
 Briscoe, 30 
 
 Lucy, 15 
 
 Percy, 15 
 Askerton, 4S 
 Askew, Sir Hugo, 6, 7 
 Aspatria, 26 
 
 Ballington, Sir John, ofCrockdake, 27 
 Banks, Sir John, of Keswick, 13 
 Barwise, Richard, M.P. for Carlisle, 22, 
 
 23> 27 
 Bassenthwaite, 13 
 Bees, St., Abbey, 9, 1 1 
 
 , tradition of, 9 
 
 , extent of, 9 
 
 , Rock, iS 
 
 , School founded by Bp. Grin- 
 
 dal, II 
 Blennerhasset, C5 
 Blencarn, 43 
 Blencrake, 14 
 Blencoe, of Blencoe Hall, 25 
 
 , Sir Henry, 41 
 
 Crister, 41 
 
 Blacklough, 47 
 
 Blackwell, manor of, 42 
 
 Bolton Church, 2C 
 
 Bothel, 25 
 
 Boustead Hill, 30 
 
 Braiton, 26, 
 
 Brampton, 4S 
 
 Branthait, 19 
 
 Bride Bridge ( Bridle Bridge), 3 
 
 Bridkirk, 23 
 
 Brisco, of Crofton, 30 
 
 Arms, 30 
 
 Bromfield village, 27 
 Brougham Castle, 34 
 ■ female heiress of 
 
 Greystok, stolen therefrom by Lord 
 
 Dacre, 34 
 , Rev,, of Brougham, 42 
 
 Brougham, Henry, 43 
 Broughton, 16 
 Burgh barony, 30 
 Buley, 32 
 
 Caldbeck, 2S 
 
 Calder Abbey, 3 
 
 Calder (Cavvdy river), 3, 30, 2S, 41 
 
 Camerton Hall, 16 
 
 Camp, British, 33 
 
 Cannonby village, 26 
 
 Carleton village, ■^'] , 40 
 
 -, all the Carletons of En-^iand 
 
 descended from, 37 
 Carelaton, 45 
 Carlisle, 41, 49 
 
 , bishop, 29 
 
 bridge, 46 
 
 castle, 46 
 
 — cathedral, 46 
 
 J St. Cuthbert's church, 46 
 
 , its garrison, 46 
 
 Castle Sowerby, 41 
 
 spearmen, 41 
 
 territory, 41 
 
 Castorstand, r 
 
 Catterlen, 35 
 
 Chaloners of St. Bees, 10 
 
 Chartres, 25 
 
 Christ's crucification, 45 
 
 , curious story of, 45 
 
 Cleator, 1 1 
 
 Clifton, 10, 17 
 
 Cockermouth town, 15 
 
 Colvils, the, 27 
 
 Coothill, 40 
 
 Copleys of Yorkshire, 5 
 
 Copper Ore, 12 
 
 Corf castle, 13 
 
 Corley castle, seat of the Salkelds, 45 
 
 Crackenthorpe of Newbiggen, 32 
 
 two slain at Tovvton 
 
 Field, 44 
 Cranfield, Susanna, intermarried with 
 
 Briscoes, 30 
 Craples Hall, 12 
 Croglin, 45 
 
 Crosthwaite parish church; 13 
 Culgaith parish, 43 
 Culwen, sec Curwen 
 Cumcatch, 4S 
 Cumerdale village, 30 
 
52 
 
 Curvven of Camcrton, iG, 26 
 
 , Sir Henry, 10, iS, iq 
 
 Curwen, Sir Patricius, 2 
 
 J pedigree of, 20 
 
 , Thomas 3 
 
 Dacre beck, 33 
 
 •— castle, 33 
 
 church, 35 
 
 • lords, 32, 33, 42 
 
 monument there, 35 
 
 , Mr., 10 
 
 , rise of the family, 34 
 
 ■ , Sir Thomas, 2S, 30 
 
 Dale head, 31 
 Dalemain, 35 
 Dalston, 2y 
 
 church, 29 
 
 Dalston, Sir George, 29, 39 
 
 , John, of Acorn Bank, 2G, 29, 30 
 
 , of Thwaite, 32 
 
 , Sir William, 29, 30 
 
 Dean, 19 
 
 Deer (fallow), 2S, 33 
 
 , hart, I 
 
 , red (Ennerdale forest), i, 33 
 
 stags, I . 
 
 Denton, George, 30 
 
 of VVarnell, 42 
 
 Squire, 25, 30 
 
 Derby, Earl of, 13 
 Derome, 23 
 Derwentwater, 13, 14, 15 
 
 , Earl of, 12 
 
 Dik-cs, Squire, ofWarthole, 19, 24 
 
 Distington, 19 
 
 Duddon river, 2 
 
 Dudley, Dorothy, of Yanwath Hall, 32, 
 
 Dun Mail Raise, 12, 31 
 
 Eamont bridge, 37 
 
 river, 35 
 
 Eden river, 2, 38 
 
 Egglesfeild, squire of Nether Hall, 23, 26 
 
 Egremont barony, iS 
 
 Elme river, 22, 23, 25, 26 
 
 Emshaugh, 47 
 
 l^^nnerdalc, i, 1 1 
 
 Eorest, 1 1 
 
 , ranger and bowbearer of, 1 1 
 
 Eeatherstone, Sir Thomas, (Colonel) 
 
 taken prisoner, 44 
 Fish : — 
 
 Char, 1 1, 33 
 
 Cockles, 2 
 
 Codiins, 4 
 
 Congers, 33 
 
 Eels, 32 
 
 Flounders, 3 
 
 Killings, (Kielings), 4 
 
 Salmon, 2, 4, 6, 
 
 Skellies, 1 1, 33 
 
 Trout, II, 33, 3S 
 Fleming, Daniel, of Skirwith, 43 
 
 ^ of Rydal Hall, 4 
 
 •, Thomas, 3 
 
 Fletcher, Sir George, 14, 17, 39, 41 
 
 , Lancelot, 24 
 
 , Sir Richard, 3, 14, 2S, 39 
 
 , Squire, of Morisby, iS 
 
 Gamblesby, 44 
 
 Gerards, Lancashiie family, 46 
 German miners, 12 
 Gilcrux, 24 
 
 Gilpin, Rev. R., rectorof Greystok, 46 
 , characteristic story of, 46 
 
 Gilsland, 47 
 
 Glassonby, 44 
 
 Glencoin beck, 32, 33 
 
 Gospatrick, Colonel, 2, 17 
 
 Gowbarrow Park, 33 
 
 Graham, George, of Nunnery, 30 
 
 , of Nunnery, 40, 45 
 
 , Sir Richard, 27 
 
 Greystok Castle, 23, 3: 
 
 , Lord, 34 
 
 , monthly court held, 
 
 Grimethorpe, baron, of Greystok, 3: 
 Grindal, Bishop, 10 
 Grisedale, 32 
 
 Haggis bag, curious story, 45 
 
 Harby Brow, 25 
 
 Harcla (Hartly), Sir Andrew, 29 
 
 , Earl of, Carlisle, 29 
 
 Hard Knot, 5 
 Harrington, 19 
 Hartley^astle, 2, 29 
 
 Hasell, Sir Edward, of Daleman, 
 Hayton castle, 27 
 
 church, 45 
 
 Heimore, 14 
 Hesket, 32 
 
 church, 4t) 
 
 tithes, 40 
 
 Highhead (Highgate) castle, 42 
 Holme Cultrum abbey, 27 
 Hoptons, Lord, 13 
 Howard, I^ord, 45 
 
 iMancis, of Corby castle. 
 
 ohn. 
 
 Howthwaite, 15 
 Huddleston, of Hutton 
 
 . John, 35 " 
 
 , pedigree of. 7 
 
 , Sir John, 7 
 
 , Sir William, 7 
 
 ;■ tradition of this family, S 
 
 Hutton in the P'orest, 14, 39 
 
 45 
 
53 
 
 Hutton John, 2-, 34 
 
 , i^ilt plate at, 35 
 
 , Mary, desc. from Mutton, of 
 
 Hutton John, 35 
 -, Sir Richard, Justice of Common 
 
 Pleas, 3, 36 
 — , William, of Penrith, 3, 36 
 
 liekirk, 27 
 Innerdale, i, 10, 1 1 
 Inglevvood, 36, 37 
 Ireby, 25 
 
 ■ Church, 25 
 
 Ironworks at Millom, y 
 Ireton, of Threlkeld Hall, 
 
 , of Ireton, 11, 14 
 
 Isill, 14 
 
 Johnby Hall, 41 
 
 Keelinps and CodHsh, 4 
 Keswick, 12 
 
 ■, Crosthwaite Church, 13 
 
 King Arthur's Round Table, 37 
 Kinmont Willie, 49 
 Kirkandrews Chuich, 30 
 Kirkbride, Barnard, 42 
 
 , Colonel, 42 
 
 , Squire of, 16, 42 
 
 , town and church, 30 
 
 Kirkoswald, 44, 45 
 
 castle, 44 
 
 church, 44 
 
 feathers, hats, garbs, visage, 
 
 portraits, &c., removed to Naworth, 
 
 44 
 
 Lam an by, 41 
 
 Lampley, .^ce Lamplugh 
 
 Lamplugh, of Lamplugh, 2, 11, 16 
 
 Langrigg village, 27 
 
 Lasenby, 3S 
 
 Latos of the Beck, 10 
 
 Lawson, Sir Wilfrid, 12, i^, 23, 
 
 32, 42 
 Layton, of Dalemain, 35 
 Leigh, 14 
 Lokey, 19 
 Fxrton, 12 
 Lough, the, 43 
 Lowes water, 1 1 
 Lowther, Sir John, 10, 3C, 39 
 
 — , Sir Richard, 14 
 
 Lucy arms, 15 
 
 Lord of Cockermouth, 15 
 
 Martindalc, James, 27 
 
 Marrying an heiress made felony, 34 
 
 Marwonby, 44 
 Matterdale, 33 
 Maybrough, assizes of Westmorland 
 
 held, 37 
 Mayplate, Edward, preb. of Carlisle, 
 
 42 
 Mayplett, Anne, 42 
 Melmerby, 45 
 
 Meschines, of Egremont, i, 15, 
 younger son of, S 
 
 47 
 
 Millom Beck Hall, S 
 Castle, 7 
 
 Miners, German, 12 
 
 Moncastle, 5, 1 1 
 
 Moneton, lord of Kirkoswald, 34, 44 
 
 Musgrave, Sir Edward, 14, 27 
 
 , Sir Edward, of Heyton Castle, 
 
 2, 14, 41, 46, 48 
 
 , Jack, 39 
 
 , Mabel la, 15 
 
 , Sir Philip of Edenhall, gover- 
 nor of Carlisle Castle, 2, 25, 3S 
 
 , Sir Richard, 38 
 
 , Sir Simon, 38 
 
 , Thomas, of Cumcatch, 15 
 
 , Sir William, of Crookdale, 
 
 25» 27 
 
 Naworth Castle, 44 
 Nether Hall, 4, 23 
 Newbiggin, 35, 39 
 Newton, 35 
 
 Norfolk, Uuke of, 30, 32, 43, 45. 
 Northumberland, earl of, i, 11, 
 26, 28, 33 
 
 14, 15. 
 
 Offa, 9 
 
 Orpheur, 24, 2G 
 Osmotherly, 27 
 Otherside, 26 
 Ousby, 44 
 
 bridge, 14 
 
 Owton, 28 
 
 Parr, Lord of Kendal, 35 
 Patrickson, John, of How, 3, 1 1 
 Pennington, of Muncaster (Thorncas- 
 
 t.'e)' 5 . . . 
 Penrith Antiquities, ^7 
 
 castle, 36 
 
 church, 37 
 
 - — — fairs, 37 
 
 free town, 36 
 
 government of 3G 
 
 — Sir Hugh Cesario, 
 
 monuments, 27 
 
 town and manor, 36 
 
 Petteril river, 32, 41 
 Pettington, 5 
 Pickering, of Crosby, 31 
 
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 Pickering", of Thiell<eld, 31 
 Plumland, 24, 2'i 
 Plumpton park disparked, 39 
 Ponsonby, of Ponsonby and Hale, 11 
 Porter, Joseph, of Weary hall, 16, 26 
 , Joseph, pedigree, 26 
 
 Queen Hames, 3G 
 
 Radciiffe, 12, 24, 47 
 
 Ratclif of Dilston, r2 
 
 Raven, 5 
 
 Ravenglass, 5, 10 
 
 Redmond, Matilda, 14 
 
 Rent, 17 
 
 Richmond, Christopher, of Highhead 
 
 castle, 42 
 Rickerby, 46 
 Rose Castle, 29 
 Roseley fair, 28 
 Rottington hall, to, 17 
 
 Salkeld, of Corby Castle, 45. 
 
 , of White hall, 24, 25, 26, 38 
 
 Sands, Bishop, 10 
 Sandford, lidm., 5 
 
 , Grace, 43 
 
 , Sir Richard, of Howgili, 41. 
 
 Sawtcr, 1 1 
 
 Scaibie castle, 27, 46 
 
 Scales hall, 43 
 
 Scarr hall, 3 
 
 Scotby, 40 
 
 Scott, iMichell, a conjuror, 31 
 
 Seascale, 4 
 
 Seaton, i, 6, 17 
 
 Sebergham, 41 
 
 Sella park', 3 
 
 Senhouse, Ur. Bp. of Carlisle, 4 
 
 , pedigree of, 4 
 
 , Squire of Nether hall, 4, lO, 
 
 -, of Seascale hall, 4, 22 
 -, steward of Holme, 28. 
 
 Skelton, John, 3S, 39, 40 
 
 , pedigree, 39 
 
 , Thomas, 19 
 
 Skiddaw, 13, 2S 
 Skerwith, 43 
 Sockbridge, 10, iS 
 Soulby, 35 
 Stainburne, 19 
 Stainton, 35 
 Stanwix, 40 
 Sty Head, 12 
 
 Sussex, earl of, Dacre Castle, 3J 
 Swinburn, of Howthwaite, 15 
 
 Tallentire, 24 
 Threepland hall, 24 
 Therby, 3 
 Threlkeld, 31 
 
 hall, 31 
 
 , Sir Lancelot, 31, 32 
 
 , of Threlkeld, 45 
 
 , of Melmerby, 45 
 
 Thursby church, 30 
 
 • village, 30 
 
 Torpenhow, 25 
 
 church, 25 
 
 Tyne river, 47 
 
 Uldale, town of, 26 
 Ulleswater, 32 
 Unthank, Skelton, 41 
 
 Vachell, Letitia, 42 
 Vaux, of Catterien hall, 4: 
 
 44 
 
 Wabberthwaite church, 5 
 
 Wample river, 30 
 
 Warcop, of Smardale town, 29 
 
 Warwick, of Warwick bridge, 40 
 
 Wearie hall, 26 
 
 Wetheral abbey, 40, 43 
 
 Weydup, 14 
 
 Wharton, lord, iG, 19, 28, 43, 45 
 
 Whitehall, 25 
 
 Whitehaven, 9, 18 
 
 Williams, steward of Greystok, 41 
 
 Williamson, Sir J., 13 
 
 Wigton, 28 
 
 Windebank Lady, 25 
 
 Wivill, of \'orkshire, 41 
 
 Workington, lordship of, i, 14, 17, 19 
 
 \^' rag mi re, 40 
 
 Wrightington, of Wrightington, 4 
 
 , Senhouse, 4 
 
 Wybergh, of Clifton, 10 
 Wytheburn, 31 
 \Vytheringl:on, lord, 4O 
 Wythrop, 14 
 
 Yanwath, 32 
 
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