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Gentleman's Magazine 1841 part 2 p.54
many a county historian the motto may be inscribed
Magnis ille excidit ausis
The world, in one sense, is more indebted to publishers than
to collectors, that is, to the publishers of their own
generation who diffuse the collections of preceding times,
rather than to the collectors of their own generation, who
bury their stores for posterity. The former process Mr.
Jefferson is very laudably engaged in accomplishing. He has
the use of a MS. history of the diocese, compiled towards
the close of the seventeenth century, by the Rev. Hugh Todd,
D.D.; of the MS. collections of Bishop Nicolson, and others
in the library of the Dean and Chapter of Carlisle. He also
pays greater attention to the Church architecture than has
previously been done, and publishes copies of the sepulchral
memorials.
Among these, in the church of Skelton, we find the
following:
"To the memory of HENRY RICHMOND BROUGHAM, Esq. who died
23rd April 1749, and lies near this place, where his father
Peter Brougham, Esq. and his mother Elizabeth, his brother
John, and sister Mary, are likewise interred. Erected by
John Gale, Esq."
The Peter here mentioned was the great-uncle of Lord
Brougham. He married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of
Christopher Richmond, esq. which Christopher's mother was
Mabell, elder daughter and coheiress of John Vaux of
Catterlen. The children of the marriage of Brougham and
Richmond all died without issue, as above noticed; and the
remarkable part of the matter is, that Lord Brougham and
Vaux is not descended from the heir of the
latter family. We think, however, that Mr. Jefferson, on
concluding his pedigree of Vaux of Catterlen in p.149,
should have mentioned that Lord Brougham's title was derived
from that family, in the way that we have mentioned.
Another object of interest in the volume is the castle of
Greystoke, which our author states is at present undergoing
a very extensive repair, from designs of A. Salvin, esq.
F.S.A. architect.
The volume is closed with biographies of several eminent
natives or residents of the district, among which is one of
Father Huddleston, contributed by Dr. Lingard.
On the whole, though it is obvious that twenty-one parishes
cannot be fully discussed in 500 not very large octavo
pages, we have no hesitation in saying that Mr. Jefferson's
book is, and ought to be, very acceptable to the county, and
that it is published at a price which will meet the
convenience of all purchasers. The embellishments are of an
inferior kind; and, without increasing his expences
materially, the author might certainly obtain more correct
drawings and more interesting subjects. In this respect we
shall hope to see an improvement in Mr. Jefferson's next
volume, which will contain the history of Allerdale Ward
above Derwent.
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