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Law, and much improved and augmented by Dr. Smith, late
Bishop of Carlisle, and other Benefactors: But the
greatest Benefactress to this Town was the Lady Anne,
Daughter and Heiress of George Lord Clifford, who
in 1651 founded, and afterwards endowed an Hospital here, for a
Governess, and twelve other Widows, commonly called, the
Mother and twelve Sisters, settled Lands on the Top
to the Value of 8 l. a Year to keep up the Repairs of the
Church, School-house, Town-hall, and Bridge; rebuilt a good Part
of the Church in which she lies interr'd, and wholly rebuilt the
Church at Bongate, which is a Part of this Town.
The Town is governed by a Mayor, Recorder, twelve Aldermen, a
Common-council, and Serjeants at Mace. It stands on the
Roman military Way, which crosses this County from
Rear-Cross on Stainmore in the East, to the River
Eden, a little below Penrith in the West.
Other Towns of chief Note in this County are,
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Kendal, called also Kirkby Candale, i.e. a Church
in the Valley upon the River Can, over which it has two
Bridges of Stone, and one of Wood, and a Harbour for Boats. Dr.
Gale thinks it to be the Brovonaca of
Antoninus, and allows that it was the Station of the
Romans, called Concangi; but both these Points are
disputed. 'Tis much superior to Appleby in Trade,
Buildings, and the Number and Wealth of the Inhabitants, and is
indeed the largest Town in the County. It has two good Streets,
which cross each other, and is inriched by the Industry of the
Townsmen, and the Woollen Manufacture, with which they have drove
a Trade throughout England ever since the Reign of
Edward III. As early as Richard II. and
Henry IV. special Laws were enacted on purpose for
regulating Kendal Cloths. Queen Elizabeth erected
it into a Corporation by the Name of Aldermen and Burgesses; and
King James I. incorporated it with a Mayor, Recorder,
Town-Clerk, twelve Aldermen, twenty four Burgesses, and two
Attorneys, of whom the Mayor, Recorder, and two Senior Aldermen,
are always Justices of the Peace. It is of Note also for the
Manufacture of Cottons, Druggets, Serges, Hats, Worsted, and Yarn
Stockings, &c. Its Markets are on Saturday, and the
Monday before Lady day, and its Fairs are on
Trinity
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