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Workington, a Town famous for Salmon-Fishing: The Salmon
here are very good, and are carried fresh as they are taken up to
London upon Horses, which changing often, go Night and Day
without Intermission, and, as they say, out-go the Post; so that
the Fish come very sweet and good to London, where the
extraordinary Price they yield pays very well for the Carriage.
The same is done from Carlisle.
The first Lord of the Manor of Workington, after the
Norman Conquest, was William de Lancaster, who
exchang'd it with Gospatrick, from whom are descended the
Curwens, Knights, who have a noble Seat here; they took
their present Name from one Curwen, a Family in
Galloway, the Heiress of which was marry'd into this
Family; and of this House Mr. Camden, with Modesty,
says
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