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Page 21:-
with water; scarce any house being so inconsiderable as not
to be provided with one of those useful engines.
After the Bishop's patriotic exertion, the town continued to
increase till the year 1598, when the plague almost
depopulated it; since that time, it has flourished
gradually, and seems likely to increase. What probably has
added to its prosperity is, that, besides the Queen's
School, there are several charity-schools, where indigent
children are taught reading, writing, needlework, and every
other branch that can make them useful members of society.
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Hutton Family
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Among the illustrious families which this town hath produced
I shall only select one, as the rest will be mentioned in
other places; I mean the Huttons of Hutton-Hall. An
honourable record of this family appears on a brass plate
which was in the old church.
"Here lyeth Mary, daughter of Thomas Wilson Secretary of
State to Queen Elizabeth, who was first married to Robert
Burdett * of Bramcourt, in the county of Warwick,
Esq; by whom she had Sir Thomas Burdett, Bart. and several
sons and daughters; and was afterwards married to Sir
Christopher Lowther, of Lowther, in the county of
Westmorland, Knight. Her daughter Elizabeth Burdett was
married to Anthony Hutton of Penrith, in the county of
Cumberland, Esq; with whom she lived and died the last day
of May, Anno Domini 1622." This old lady did not live in the
same house with her daughter, but in an house (at her
desire) called Bramcourt, or, as commonly pronounced,
Bramercourt.
On the North side of the chancel was the following
inscription on a neat monument.
"Here lies interred Anthony Hutton, Esquire, who was a
grave, faithful, and judicious Councellor at Law, and one of
the masters of the High Court of Chancery; son and heir to
that renowned knight Sir William Hutton of Penrith, and was
matched into the noble family of Sir Thomas Burdett of
Bramcourt, in the county of Warwick, Baronet, by the
marriage of his virtuous sister Elizabeth Burdett; whose
pious care and religious bounty hath erected this marble
tomb, to perpetuate the memory of so worthy a
commonwealth-man, and so dear an husband, who died the 10th
of July 1637."
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addenda
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Before I leave Penrith, I must mention two pieces of
church-history which occurred too late to be inserted in
their proper place. The first is, that there was from the
time of Edward II. till the 20. of Richard II. an house of
Grey-Friars here, but so poor and small in number, that the
name alone remains. The other is this; In the year 1355,
some persons having committed several outrages in the church
and church-yard of Penrith, Bishop Walton issued out a
mandate to Sir Thomas rector of Burgham, and John de
Docwray, threatening the greater excommunication to all
concerned therein. Upon this, several of the parishioners
went to Rose Castle and owned themselves guilty to the
Bishop, humbly begging pardon, and intreating him to
withdraw his mandate. This he consented to, upon condition
that each of them should make an offering be-
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* Descendant of that Thomas Burdett, of whom Speed
tells us a very remarkable story, Book II. p.688. King
Edward IV. being on a progress in Warwickshire, and taking
his diversion of hunting in Arrow park, (belonging to
Burdett,) among other game killed a white deer, which Mr.
Burdett highly valued. This being told to Burdett, that his
buck was killed, but no mention made of the King's name, he
wished that the buck's horns were in that man's belly that
killed him, or in his that first proposed it. Some court
sycophants being at hand, reported his words, and
accordingly was tried and condemned to death; in consequence
whereof he lost his head at Tyburn, and was buried in
Grey-Friars Church at London.
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gazetteer links
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-- (friary, Penrith)
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-- "Hutton Hall" -- Hutton Hall
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-- "Penrith" -- (Penrith (CL13inc)3)
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-- "Petterell, River" -- Petteril, River
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-- (St Andrew, Penrith (CL13inc)2)
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