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Page 194:-
on every Side, and a Brass Plate, with the following Inscription,
in Capital Letters:
This Pillar was erected Anno 1656, by the Right
Honourable ANNE, Countess Dowager of Pembroke, and
sole Heir of the Right Honourable GEORGE, Earl of
Cumberland, &c. for a Memorial of her last parting in this
Place with her good and Pious Mother, the Right Honourable
MARGARET, Countess Dowager of Cumberland, the 2d of
April, 1616. In Memory whereof she has also left an
Annuity of Four Pounds to be distributed to the Poor within this
Parish of Brougham, every 2d Day of April for ever,
upon the Stone Table hereby.
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Lady Anne Pembroke
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This Countess of Pembroke had a noble and great Estate in
this County, and a great many fine old Seats, all which she
repair'd and beautify'd, and dwelt sometimes at one, and
sometimes at another, for the Benefit of her Tenants, and of the
Poor, whom she always made desirous of her Presence, constantly
relieving them by her Bounty and Hospitality.
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mountains
Wry Nose
Three Shire Stones
Skiddaw
Helvellyn
Catstye Cam
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Some of the Mountains in Cumberland are very remarkable
for their Height, viz. the Mountain called Wry
Nose, upon the Top of which, near the Highway-Side, are to be
seen three Stones, commonly call'd Shire-Stones, lying
within a Foot of one another, yet in three several Counties,
viz. one in Cumberland, another in
Westmorland, and the third in Lancashire. Secondly,
the Skiddaw, a Mountain that rises up with two mighty high
Heads like Parnassus, and from which Scruffel Hill,
which is in Anandale in Scotland, may be discerned;
and according as Mists rise or fall upon these Heads, the People
there prognosticate of the Change of Weather. The third is
Lauvellin, the fourth Castinand, of which, and the
former, they have a proverbial Speech among them:
Skiddaw, Lauvellin, and Castinand,
Are th' highest Hills in all England.
On the S.W. of the Wry-Nose, is
Hardknot-Hill, a ragged Mountain, so steep, that it is
almost impossible to ascend it, yet on the Top of it a-
bout
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gazetteer links
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-- "Casticand" -- Catstye Cam
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-- "Countess's Pillar" -- Countess Pillar
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-- "Hardknot Hill" -- Hard Knott
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-- "Lauvellin" -- Helvellyn
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-- "Skiddaw, The" -- Skiddaw
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-- "Shire Stones" -- Three Shire Stones
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-- "Wry Nose" -- Wrynose Pass
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