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Page 115:-
Muche people prayed for Cloudesle, that his life saved myght
be;
And when he made him ready to shote, there was many a
weeping ee.
But Cloudesle cleft the apple in twaine, his sonne he did
not nee:
"Over God's forbode", sayd the Kynge, "that thou should
shote at me."
I geve the eightene pence a day, and my bow shalt thou
bere,
And over all the North countre I make the chyfe rydere.
And thyrtene pence a day, sayd the Queen, by God and by my
say;
Come feche thy payment when thou wylt, no man shall say the
nay.
Wyllyam, I make the a gentleman of clothyng and of fe,
And thy two brethren yemen of my chambre, for they are so
semely to se.
Your sonne, for he is of tender age, of my wyne seller he
shall be,
And when he cometh to mans estate, shall better advaunced
be.
And Wyllyam, bring to me your wyfe, me longeth her to se;
She shall be my chefe gentlewoman to governe my nurserye.
The yemen thanketh them curteously, to some byshop wyl we
wend,
Of all the synnes that we have done, to be assoyld at his
hand.
So forth be gone these good yemen as fast as they myght
he,
And after came and dwelled with the Kynge, and dyed good men
all thre.
Thus endeth the lives of these good yemen, God send them
eternal bless,
And all that with a hand-bow shotteth, that of heaven may
never mysse. - Amen.
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Robin Hood
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SOME will have these three mentioned in the above old ballad
to have been contemporary with Robin Hood's father, as the
pedigree writer of Robin says:
The father of Robin a forester was, and he shot in a lusty
long bow,
Two North Country miles and an inch at a shot, as the Pindar
of Wakefield does know.
For he brought Adam Bell, and Clim of the Clough, and
William a Cloudeslee,
To shoot with our forester for forty merk, and our forester
beat them all three.
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St John, St John's in the
Vale
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Going along the lane called Castrigg Loning, which
leads from the Druids temple to the top of the village of
Castrigg, we come to a place called the Pyat's, (i.e.
Magpy's) Nest: here we have a view of St
John's chapel, standing upon a mountain, with no other
edifice near it, except an Ale-house. The church and
the ale-house are indeed such inseparable companions in this
country, that I should almost suppose that poet, who says,
"Wherever God erects an house of pray'r,
The devil always builds a chapel there,"
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customs
penny fair
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to be a Cumbrian. A very old custom in use here, and some
other places, deserves particular notice. On the Sunday
before Easter all the inhabitants of the parish, old and
young, men and women, repair to this ale-house after evening
prayer: they then collect a penny from each person, male or
female, but not promiscuously, as the women pay separately:
this money is spent in liquor, and at one of these meetings,
(or penny fairs as they are called) amounted to three
pounds, so that there must have been 720 persons present.
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-- "Castrigg Loning" -- Castle Lane
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-- "Pyat's Nest" -- (High Nest, St John's
Castlerigg etc)
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-- "Englyshe Wood" -- (Inglewood Forest
(CL13inc)2)
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-- "Pyat's Nest" -- (Low Nest, St John's
Castlerigg etc)
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-- "St John's Chapel" -- St John's Church
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