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brass, as I mentioned before - Sir William Stapleton, knight, who died in 1458, and Margaret de Vipont, his wife, whose daughter and coheir Joan married Thomas Musgrave of Musgrave, esq. and brought this place into the present family. Here are, besides, various mural monuments; many of them cenotaphs of several of the family, who are interred in the church of the Trinity in the Minories, London, the burial place of the Dartmouth Family, to which the Musgraves are allied*.
In a window is painted Ceolulf king of the Mercians, and his admired Saint Cuthbert, to whose monastery in the isle of Lindesfarn, the pious Prince, after nine years spent in vanity, retired: there he passed the remainder of his days and was interred close to the body of the Saint†. In the same window is the figure of a Bishop, with the head of an ancient King in his hand.
Long Meg and Her Daughters Not far from hence I crossed the Eden, here a beautiful stream, and the banks finely cultivated. After riding about three miles northward, I saw, in the parish of Addingham, the noted Druidical Temple called Long Meg and her daughters. The circle is formed of sixty-seven rude stones placed upright, and of unequal heights: all are placed single ex- LONG MEG.
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* Collins, 1, 82.
† Cressey's Church Hist. 592.

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