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Gentleman's Magazine 1839 part 2 p.509
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book review
Guide to Naworth and Lanercost
Samuel Jefferson
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Guide to Naworth and
Lanercost
Book review.
A Guide to Naworth and Lanercost; or, Historical and
Descriptive Accounts of Naworth Castle and Lanercost Priory,
and a Life of Lord William Howard. Carlisle: by
Samuel Jefferson. 12mo.
THIS is a pleasing guide-book, offered by the author of the
History of Carlisle (which was reviewed in our May number,
p.516), to those of his friends who devote a summer's
holiday to a visit to the towers of Naworth, or the
mouldering arches of Lanercost.
Naworth Castle, the chief residence of the Dacres lords of
Gilsland, has been characterised by Sir Walter Scott as "one
of those extensive baronial seats which marked the splendour
of our ancient nobles, before they changed the hospitable
magnificence of a life spent amongst numerous tenantry, for
the uncertain honours of court attendance, and the equivocal
rewards of ministerial favour." It was here that the
celebrated Lord William Howard, better known as Bold or
Belted Will Howard,* a man
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* "Lord William," says Mr. Howard, in his Memorials
of the Howard Family, "is in the Lay of the Last Minstrel
called by Sir Walter Scott Belted Will Howard,
meaning, I apprehend, that he was in the habit of wearing
the baldrick, or broad belt, which was formerly worn
as a distinguishing badge by persons of high station. But
this, as to him, is not at all founded on fact, as the belts
which he wears in his pictures are particularly narrow. But
the characteristic epithet with which his name has come down
to our time is Bauld, meaning 'Bold Wyllie.' That of
his lady is 'Bessie with the braid apron;' not, I
conceive, from any embroidery of that part of her dress, but
using the word broad, which is often so pronounced, in
allusion to the breadth or extent of her possessions."
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