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Henry the younger, his lord the King, it appears rather to have
been founded in the beginning of that reign; for William the
elder, Earl of Pembroke, died in the fourth or fifth year of the
reign of Henry III. He gave it, never to be erected into an
abbey, to the canons regular of St. Austin, reserving to himself
and his heirs the right of granting them the conge[acute] d'lire
of a prior, who should be independent of all others. Under the
north wall, a little below the altar, is the tomb-stone of
William de Walton, prior of Cartmel. He is mentioned in the
confirmation diploma of Edward II, and must have been one of the
first priors. Opposite to this is a magnificent tomb of a
Harrington and his lady, which Mr. Pennant thinks may be of Sir
John Harrington, who, in 1305, was summoned by Edward I, 'with
numbers of other gallant gentlemen, to meet him at Carlisle, and
attend him on his expedition in to Scotland.' But it agrees
better with a John de Harrington, called John of Cartmel, or his
son, of Wrasholme-tower, in Cartmel, as Sir Daniel Fleming's
account of that family has it, M.S.L.A. 1.132. The head of the
Harrington family, Sir John Harrington, in the reign of Edward I,
was of Aldingham, and lived at Gleaston-castle, in Furness, and
died in an advanced age, in 1347; and is more probably the Sir
John
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