button to main menu  Edward Aglionby's Notes of the Debatable Land, 1590, page 169

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and Leven are able to make vC. serviceable men. There dwelleth also a surname of Stories, but they are sore decayed.
Leven.
Upon this river also dwelleth many Grames, and above Kirklynton in Sompert dwelleth a great surname of Fosters, and about Hethersgill is a surname of Hetheringtons.
Bewcastle.
There dwelleth Fosters, Cwsers, and Nixsons, but sore decayed.
Gilsland.
In Gilsland is no great surname. The Belles is the most. There is a surname of Mylbournes and Hardens, but they are not many.
Bourgh.
There is fowre surnames there, Lyddalls, Glastes, and Huntingtons, Hodgesons. But there is not many of none of them.
Musgrave and Salkeld.
The greatest surname of the gentlemen within the wardenry, is Musgraves and Salkelds.
The severall surnames of the Borderers of Scotland and their dwellinges.
Sarke.
Betwixt Eske and Sarke dwelleth the surname of Johnsons, called the Johnsons of Greatney.
Kinmont.
Above them dwelleth Kinmont and Armestrong, and about him dwelleth C. able men all Armestronges.
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