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taken from Mayburgh; but as neither the stones are of the
same kind, nor were the roads in those times practicable for
carriages, they must surely be wrong informed.
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Eamont Bridge
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We now enter the small but neat village of Emont Bridge,
consisting only of a few cottages †; yet so
excellently is this spot situated for trade, that besides a
very considerable bleaching-ground, several fulling mills,
&c. here is a silk and woolen Dyer, of sufficient
abilities to produce all those beautiful tints which are
employed in the Earl of Lonsdale's splendid
Carpet-Manufactory, whose excellence is universally known.
Emont Bridge divides Cumberland from Westmorland, and is a
plain but substantial building. From the middle arch is a
beautiful view either up or down the river, and perhaps few
places are better disposed in point of picturesque beauty,
though none have been less noticed.
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book 1
chapter 2
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Cumberland
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CUMBERLAND.
CHAP. II.
Emont Bridge, -- Carleton Hall, -- Carleton Family, --
Sir Thomas Carleton's Expedition into Scotland, --
Meal-Cross.
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Eamont Bridge
Carleton Hall
Carleton Family
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HAVING crossed the Bridge, and ascended a steep bank, we
meet with a small road which leads to Carleton-Hall; which
we mentioned before, but shall here give a succinct account
of it from the earliest tradition to this present time. It
was, about the time of the Conquest, the property of a
family of the name of Carleton, in which it continued
through many successions, until the year 1707, when it was
purchased by Mr. John Pattison Attorney at law in
Penrith. His son Christopher Pattison dying without issue,
the estate devolved upon his three sisters, the eldest of
whom had Carleton-Hall allotted to her as her share. She was
married to Mr. J. Simpson [T. Simpson] of Penrith, by whom
she had one daughter, who was married to the late James
Wallace, Esq; who, after living many years with high and
increasing reputation, died in the honourable post of
Attorney-General to his present Majesty George the III.
Dugdale, in his visitation in 1665, confirms the above
account of the Carleton Family.
As supplement to this account, and to give my readers an
insight into the state of these parts before the Union, I
beg leave to add a journal of a Focray [Forray] *,
headed by Sir Thomas Carleton of Carleton-Hall, addressed to
the Lord Wharton, then Lord Warden of the West Marches: it
is dated in February 1547, and has been copied by Dr. Burn,
which does not deprecate its worth.
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Sir Thomas Carleton's expedition
into Scotland
foray
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"The first day we made a road into Tevidale, and got a great
booty of goods, and that night we lay in the old walls of
Wancop-Tower, and builded to-falls; but for lake of houses
both for ourselves and our horses, we could not remain there
the weather was so sore, and so we came to Cannonby, and
then went to Dumfries and lay there, who submitted
themselves to become the King's Majesty's subjects of
England. And the morrow after my coming hither, I went into
the Moot-Hall, and made
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"a pro-
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† On one of them is the following inscription, highly
characteristic of the genius of this country.
OMNE SOLUM FORTI PATRIA EST.
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* Foraging, or marauding party.
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erratum from p.194
for J. Simpson, read T. Simpson.
for focray, read forray.
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gazetteer links
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-- "Carleton Hall" -- Carleton Hall
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-- "Emont Bridge" -- Eamont Bridge
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-- "Emont Bridge" -- Eamont Bridge
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-- "Lowther Hall" -- (Lowther Castle, Lowther
(CL13inc)2)
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-- "Mayburgh" -- (Mayburgh, Yanwath etc
(CL13inc)2)
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-- "Penrith Castle" -- (Penrith Castle, Penrith
(CL13inc)2)
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