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Marriage it came to Sir Hugh Morvil, whose Family enjoy'd
it for some Time, and were called the Morvils of Burgh
super sabulones: A Knight of this Family, named Hugh
Morvil, was one of the four that kill'd Thomas
Beckett, Archbishop of Canterbury; for which, being
afterwards very penitent, he gave the Rectory of this Town to the
Abbey of Holm Cultram, which the Bishops of
Carlisle appropriated to the Monks.
The Sword with which he kill'd the Archbishop was kept long at
Issal, and now remains in the Family of the
Arundels.
This Town is yet more memorable for the Mounment of our
victorious Prince Edward I. who having so far subdu'd the
Scots as to bring away the sacred Stone at Scone
Abbey, whereupon their Kings used to be crown'd, died here in
his Camp, on his March against them, like a true Soldier,
guarding his Frontiers with his latest Breath: In Memory of him
there was afterwards erected a handsome square Pillar nine Yards
and a half high, with these inscriptions on three Sides:-
On the W. Side.
Memoriae eternae EDWARDI I. Angliae Longe Clarissimi,
qui in Belli Apparatu contra Scotos occupatus Hic in
Castris Obiit, 7 Julii, A.D. 1307.
On the N. Side.
Nobilissimus Princeps HENRICUS HOWARD Dux Norfoliciae,
Comes Mareschal, Angliae Oriundus, P. A.D. 1685.
On the other Side.
JOHANNES AGLIONBY, I. C. F. C. i.e. Juris consultus fieri
causavit.
Beneath.
THOMAS LANGSTONE, fecit, 1685
The
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