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Life of Sir Philip
Musgrave
Book review.
The Life of Sir Philip Musgrave, Bart. of Hartley Castle,
co. Westmorland, and of Edenhall, co. Cumberland, Governor
of the City of Carlisle, &c. Now first published from an
original MS. by the Rev. Gilbert Burton, Vicar of
Edenhall, 1669-1683. S. Jefferson, Carlisle.
8vo.
SIR Philip Musgrave was one of the noble cavaliers whose
devoted loyalty and disinterested patriotism embellishes the
otherwise disastrous history of Charles the First. He was
naturally of a grave and studious temperament. Iin his
younger days, before the troubles,
"He had a melancholy disposition and
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