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Loder,
Strickland.
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Loder is also a place of the same name, which, like
Strickland in its neighbourhood, gave name to
families of antient renown. Higher up at the confluence of
the Loder and Eymot in the year 1602 was found a stone with
this inscription in honour of Constantine the Great:
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Pientissimo Augusto.
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IMP.
C. VAL.
CONSTA-
NTINO
PIENT.
AVG.
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Isanparles Hanging
walls of Marcantoniby.
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Eamont, River
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The Eymot, after serving some time as a boundary between
this county and Cumberland near Isanparles, a rock
well known in the neighbourhood, formed by Nature difficult
of access, with many caverns and detours as a retreat to the
distressed in troublesome times, throws its own and other
streams into the Eden after a course of a few miles,
when it has received the river Blencarne, a boundary
towards Cumberland, on which I am told are confused ruins of
a castle called the Hanging walls of Marcantoniby,
or, as they fancy, Mark Anthony.
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Arms of Vipont. Earls of
Westmoreland.
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Westmorland, Earl of
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The first lord of Westmoreland that I have met with was
Robert de Veteriponte, or de Vipont, who bore
for his arms G. six annulets Or. King John gave him "the
bailliwik and revenues of Westmoreland for four knights
fees," whence the Cliffords his successors to this
day hold the office of Sheriff of Westmoreland
[*]. For the last Robert de Vipont [m] left only two
daughters Sybill [n], wife of Roger lord Clifford,
and Idonea, married to Roger de Leybourne. A long
while after this king Richard II. [o] created first earl of
Westmoreland Radulphus de Novavilla, or Neville, lord
of Raby, a man of high and antient Saxon nobility, descended
from Uchtred, earl of Northumberland. His descendants by his
first wife M. [p] daughter of the earl of Stafford, enjoyed
this title till Charles forming a conspiracy as vain as
wicked against Queen Elizabeth, and being obliged to fly his
country [q], disgraced that noble family, stained his own
glories [r], and ended his life in wretched exile in the
Netherlands. By his second wife Catherine [s], daughter of
John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, he had such a numerous
issue, that her descendants were at one and the same time
earl of Salisbury, earl of Warwick, earl of Kent, marquis
Montacute, baron Latimer, and baron Abergagavenny [t].
In this county are 26 populous parishes.
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149.*
Fines term. Mich. E.VI. H.VIII.
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[m]
who died 1261. Dugd. Bar. I. 349. 337.
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[n]
Isabel. H.
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[o]
21 R.II. He died 1425, 14 H.VI. buried at Staindrop. Ib.
297.
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[p]
Margaret. Ib. 298. His son John died 1423 in his father's
life time, and was buried in Grey Friars, London, and his
son Ralph succeeded and died 4 Richard III. 1484, succeeded
by his nephew Ralph 15 H. VII. and he by his grandson, who
died 15 E. VI. His son Henry succeeded, and died 1564, 6 E.
I. His son Charles joined in Northumberland's designs in
favour of the Queen of Scots, and died 1584. (Camden vit.
Eliz.) and with him this title ended. Ib. 297-301.
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[q]
and covering treason under the mask of religion. H.
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[r]
by actual rebellion in 1599. Ib.
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[s]
Joan. Dugd. Ib. 298.
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[t]
A duke of Bedford. H.
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ADDITIONS.
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gazetteer links
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-- Brougham
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-- "Eymot, River" -- Eamont, River
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-- "Isanparles" -- Giant's Caves
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-- "Hanging Walls of Marcantoniby" -- Hanging
Walls of Mark Anthony
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-- "Loder" -- Lowther
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-- "Westmoreland" -- Westmorland
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