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start of Lancashire |
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Page 132:-
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Windermere lake
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which William Marescall the elder, earl of Pembroke,
built and endowed a priory. If we read with some copies of
Ptolemy SETANTIORUM λιμεν
and not SETANTIORUM λνμεν
I would venture to affirm that these Britans were named
SETANTII. For among these hills is the largest lake in
England, called Winander mere, Saxon
[WinBF;adre-mer - Anglo Saxon], probably from its
windings on a bed of almost one stone continued for near ten
miles with crooked banks, and, according to the reports of
the inhabitants of an immense depth, abounding with a
species of fish peculiar to itself, called by the people
thereabouts chare. It has a small village of its own
name on it, where A.D. 792, Eathred king of Northumberland
slew the sons of king Elfwold, whom he had forced from York
to establish himself on the throne by his own wickedness and
their blood [s].
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Walney island. Pile of
Fouldrey.
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Walney Island
Piel Castle
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Between this lake and the river Dudden runs out the
point commonly called Fornesse, to which is opposed
for a long way as a kind of breast-work Walney
island, divided from it by a narrow channel, the entrance to
which is guarded by the Pile of Fouldrey as it is
called, built by one of the abbots of Fornesse on a
rock in the midst of the sea 1 Edward III.
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Fornesse abbey.
Aldingham. The Harringtons. Ulverston.
Lords of Gynes.
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Furness Abbey
Aldingham
Ulverston
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On the point itself nothing is to be seen but the walls of
Fornesse abbey, built A.D. 1127, by Stephen earl of
Boulogne, afterwards king of England, in a place formerly
called Bekensgill, or rather transferred from
Tulket in Andernesse [A;]. Out of the
monks of this abbey, and from no other (as they themselves
have said) the bishops of the isle of Man, which lies
overagainst it, used to be chosen by antient custom: it
being as it were the mother of many monasteries in Man and
Ireland. More to the east is Aldingham, the antient
estate of the family of Harrington, to whom it came
from the Flemings by the Cancefelds, and their
estate passed by a daughter to William Bonvill [t] in
Devonshire [u], and at length by him to the Greys
marquisses of Dorset. A little higher up is
Ulverston, memorable for the grant of a moiety
of it by Edward III. to John Coupland, a gallant
soldier, whom he advanced to the rank of banneret for taking
David II. king of Scots prisoner at the battle of Durham.
But after his death the same king bestowed it with other
estates in this county, and the title of earl of Bedford on
Ingelram lord Coucy [x], who had married his daughter
Isabell, and whose ancestors had great possessions in
England in right of Christiana de Lindesay.
... ... ... ...
The rest of Lancashire is not transcribed; until the
Additions.
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132.[A;]
Furness register.
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[s]
Hist. of Mailros, p.139. ed. Gale.
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[t]
Somersetshire. Holland.
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[u]
Dugd. Bar. II. 236.
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[x]
Dugdale Bar. I. 760.
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gazetteer links
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-- "Aldingham" -- Aldingham
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-- "Carthmell" -- Cartmel
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-- "Fornesse Abbey" -- Furness Abbey
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-- "Forness Fels" -- Furness Fells
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-- "Pile of Fouldrey" -- Piel Castle
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-- "Ulverston" -- Ulverston
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-- "Walney Island" -- Walney Island
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-- "Winander Mere" -- Windermere lake
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-- "Winander Mere" -- Windermere
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