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Gentleman's Magazine 1848 part 2 p.139
over the gateway in old English characters, "This made
Roger."
2nd. "Neither was Udard de Brohan or Broham Governor of
Appleby Castle temp. King Henry II." but Gospatrick son
of Orm, as is clearly shown by the following entry in the
Pipe Rolls for Yorkshire, 23 Hen.II. rot.5, m.2, the year
that Appleby Castle was taken by the King of Scots,
"Gospatricius, filius Orm, reddit compotum de cc. et xxvj.
li. et xiil. s. et iiij. d. de misericordia, quia reddit
castrum Regis de Appelbi Regi Scottie." Jordan Fontosme
says, "The King very soon had the castle of Appleby; there
were no people in it, but it was quite unguarded. Gospatric,
son of Orm, an old grey-headed Englishman, was the
constable; he soon cried mercy." But no mention of Udard de
Brohan or Broham is to be found at that time as in any way
connected with Appleby Castle.
3rd. "Nor have that family been located there from the
time of the Heptarchy." Where is there a shadow of
evidence that they were? Hugh de Morville, a "kinsman" too!
(see April, p.875), who forfeited the barony of Westmorland
in 18th Hen. II. A.D. 1171 for the murder of Becket,
possessed Brougham, for in that reign he converted tenure by
drengage into free tenure at Brougham,* and it is
clear that Gilbert de Broham (if ever there was such a
person at Brougham) had not thrown off that slavish service
in the 2nd of King John; for Mr. G. Shaw tells us that he
then appears as a drenge. After the forfeiture of
Hugh de Morville, the honour of Westmorland remained in the
crown till the 4th of King John, when it was, with the
castles of Appleby and Brough, intrusted to the keeping of
Robert de Veteripont, to whom in the next year it was given
in perpetuity, and from him it has descended, without
alienation, to the present Earl of Thanet. Brougham Castle
has always accompanied it; and, this being so, how can Mr.
G. Shaw pretend "to compile from memory" that the Broughams
have been here "located since the time of the heptarchy!"
with not even the help of a Domesday Book† to shed
its dim twilight on the tangled path which would lead him to
the time of the Confessor, say A.D. 1050, much less to that
of the heptarchy, say A.D. 600 or 700! Nor is the name de
Broha, which is as often spelt Brohan as Broham, any more
connected with Brougham, that we can find, than that of
Robert de Broi, which appears near the same year in the same
Pipe Rolls for Westmorland. The reasoning in this case much
resembles that of Fluellin, who thought the birthplace of
Alexander the Great was like Monmouth, because there was a
river at Monmouth and another in Macedon - or like Mr. G.
Shaw's own illogical conclusion in his last letter - that
because Horsley in his Britannia says the word Brougham is a
compound of Burgh and Ham, argal, as the grave-digger
has it, the family have been located there since the time of
the heptarchy! particularly as it smacks of the much older
Roman name Brovocum, - which is incorrect, for
Horsley calls it Brocavum.
4th. "The Hall does not stand on the Roman station."
This point we need not dwell upon, for the station itself is
still in existence, and rises up in evidence against
Mr. G. Shaw's history. Brougham Castle stands close on its
north vallum, and is three-quarters of a mile from Brougham
Hall. Horsley says, "Brocavum I conclude to be Brougham
Castle, in which I have the general concurrence of others."
See Roy's Military Roads, fol. and various authors
passim. So much for Brougham Hall standing on the
Roman station!
5th. "Nor is the manor of Brougham theirs." The first
evidenece which is adduced in support of this assertion is a
riding of the boundary of Brougham in the reign of Richard
the Second, when it is said Sir John Burgham was present
along with Sir John Clifforth. We have seen a copy of this
boundary perambulation quite different from the one quoted
from by Mr. G. Shaw. There is no Sir John Burgham there, but
plain John. Nor are the words alike. But supposing this to
be a genuine document, of which we have some doubt, it does
not prove that John Burgham had
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