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Page 205:-
cutaneous disorders, and much resorted to both by the
English and Scotch [q]. The tradition of this abbey being
founded in atonement for a murder seems to have little or no
grounds from the foundation charter, wherein the founder
Robert does not even enjoin the monks to pray for the soul
of Giles Bueth. At the dissolution it was granted to Thomas
Dacre of Lanercost, afterwards knighted, and commonly called
Bastard Dacre, being an illegitimate son of Thomas
lord Dacre of the North, whence the family bear in their
arms the bar of difference. He repaired the mansion house
1559, and put up in the dining room window these lines, now
in the east window of the church:
Mille & quingentos ad quinquaginta novemque
Adjice, & hoc anno condidit istud opus
Thomas Dacre eques, sedem qui primus in istam
Venerat, extincta relligione loci.
Haec Edoardus ei dederat, devoverat ante
Henricus longae praemia militiae.
Upon failure of the male heirs of his body it reverted to
the crown, and is now in lease to Frederic earl of Carlisle
[r].
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Burdoswald.
Pl.XIV. 9.
Pl.XIV. 10.
Pl.XIV. 11.
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roman fort, Birdoswald
roman inscription
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Burdoswald, in Lanercost parish, a very large and
remarkable fort, at which more inscriptions have been found
than at any other Roman station, was the AMBOGLANA of the
Notitia, the station of the cohors I Elia Dacorum.
Many of the stones found here having been brought over the
river to Willoford, that place has without reason
been supposed a station; for there are no such appearances
[s]. Ford and Worth are often confounded.
Volurtium Raven. is on the altar Volantium
[t]. Of the inscriptions given by Mr. Camden the 3d, 7th,
and 8th, are at Rookby, from Naworth [u], the first was at
Naworth, Horsley's Cumb. xi. the 2d, if it was not a large
low altar now in a corner of a house at Willoford, is lost
[x]; the 4th seems to be on an altar at Corby castle [y],
Horsley's Cumb. xvi. and to be read Pro salute D N Maximi
ac fortissimi Marii Aurelii Maximiani ... aedificavit.
The focus is very particular [z]. The 5th is Horsley's Cumb.
xxiv. p.259 at Naworth. The 6th was built up in the front of
a house within the fort at Burdoswald [a]. At
Willoford were the altars [b], fig12, 13. Pl.XIV.
with other stones that have the centurial mark, or are
uninscribed [c]. At Underhaugh, a house between
Burdoswald and the Irthing, was fig.14. Pl.XIV. [d] and
within the fort [c], fig.15. and fig.11. Fig.1 Pl.XV. was in
a garden or yard wall on the south side of the fort [f]:
fig.2. is Horsley's XIII. fig.3 his XII. fig.4 his XIV.
Fig.6 Pl.XV. was on the front wall of the principal house at
Murray, a village a quarter of a mile east from
Burdoswald [g]. The stone inscribed DADA is in a house in
the fort [h]: two others [i]. Some centurial stones COH.
viiii. [k] were at Lanerton, a mile west from
Burdoswald [l]. Above 100 yards without the fort eastward in
a kind of ruin were dug up two more altars, with
inscriptions, communicated by Mr. George Smith to Gent. Mag.
1746, 538. engraved Pl.XV. fig.7, 8. They recite the Cohors
I Elia Dacorum Postumiana.
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ALIONE.
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Whitley Castle
roman inscription
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Whitley castle in Northumberland is the
antient ALIONE [m]. The inscription given by Mr. Camden is
probably lost, for that now at Appleby is but a copy. It
belongs to Caracalla, whose relationship to the several
emperors here enumerated is explained by Mr. Ward [n]. Mr.
Horsley saw in the hands of Mr. Henry Wallace, of Whitley,
proprietor of the site of the station this inscription [o]:
VEX. LEG.
XX VV
RE FEC
and in a house called Castle-nook, at the south entry
of the station another [p] likewise to Caracalla. At
Kirkhaugh adjoining in the church-yard is this
inscription on an altar:
DEAE ME
NERVAE
ET
HERCVLI
VICTOR.
i.e. Deae Minervae & Herculi Victori [q].
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Earls of
Cumberland.
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Cumberland, Earl of
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According to Dugdale [r] William de Meschines was brother to
Ranulph, earl of Chester, and had Coupland bestowed on him
by the Conqueror, or Henry I. and his son Ranulph died in
his life time. But, p.525. he says Ranulph de
Meschines had the whole county of Cumberland bestowed on him
by Henry I. and granted Gillesland to Hubert de Vaux, as
before, p.201. The chronicle of Cumberland [s] makes Ranulph
earl of Cumberland, his brother Geoffrey earl of Chester,
and his brother William lord of Coupland. Dugdale [t] makes
Ranulph, earl of Chester, to have been earl of Cumberland,
and to have died 1129, 29 Henry I. and his brother William
lord of Coupland, and Geoffrey of Gillesland. From this
Ranulph the present earl of Carlisle, lord Gillesland, is
descended by the female line.
Francis Clifford, earl of Cumberland, died 1641, and was
succeeded by his only son Francis, who died at York 1643,
leaving an only daughter Elizabeth, married to Richard Boyle
viscount Dungannon, created 20 Charles I. lord Clifford, of
Lonsborough, and 16 Charles II. earl of Burlington [u]. The
title of duke of Cumberland was conferred on prince George
of Denmark, who was also created earl of Kendal, and baron
Ockingham [16]. It was revived 1726 in the person of William
Augustus, second son of his late Majesty, after whose death,
1765, it was conferred by his present Majesty, 1766, on his
youngest brother Henry Frederic, who at present enjoys it.
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[q]
G. Short. Burn, II. 505.
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[r]
Burn, II. 501. 504.
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[s]
Horsl. 107.
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[t]
Gale MS. n.
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[u]
Horsl. Cumb. viii. ix. x.
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[x]
Horsl. 252.
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[y]
Gordon, xliii. 96.
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[z]
Cumb. vii. 253.
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[a]
Ib. vii. 253.
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[b]
Horsl. Cumb. i. ii. 252.
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[c]
Horsl. 253.
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[d]
Horsl. Cumb. iv. 253.
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[e]
Cumb. v. vii.
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[f]
Horsl. Cumb. vi. 253. Gord. pl.XLV. fig.4.
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[g]
Horsl. Cumb. xviii.
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[h]
Ib. xix.
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[i]
Ib. xx. xxi. xxii. xxiii.
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[k]
Ib. xxvi.
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[l]
Ib. xxv. 258.
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[m]
Horsl. 85. 89. 110, 111.
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[n]
Horsl. 51. Northumb. cxiii.
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[o]
Northumb. cxi.
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[p]
Northumb. cxii.
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[q]
Ib. cxiv. p.252.
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[r]
Bar. I. 89.
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[s]
Mon. Ang. I. 400.
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[t]
Mon. Ang. I. 397. Bar. I. 38.
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[u]
Dugd. II. 346.
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[16]
G.
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Rare
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gazetteer links
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-- "Holywell" -- Holywell
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-- Lanercost Priory
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-- "Burdoswald roman fort" -- (roman fort,
Birdoswald)
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-- "Whitley Castle" -- Epiacum
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