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	Gentleman's Magazine 1839 part 2 p.509
book review   Guide to Naworth and Lanercost   Samuel Jefferson
	Guide to Naworth and Lanercost Book review. A Guide to Naworth and Lanercost; or, Historical and Descriptive Accounts of Naworth Castle and Lanercost Priory, and a Life of Lord William Howard. Carlisle: by Samuel Jefferson. 12mo. THIS is a pleasing guide-book, offered by the author of the History of Carlisle (which was reviewed in our May number, p.516), to those of his friends who devote a summer's holiday to a visit to the towers of Naworth, or the mouldering arches of Lanercost. Naworth Castle, the chief residence of the Dacres lords of Gilsland, has been characterised by Sir Walter Scott as "one of those extensive baronial seats which marked the splendour of our ancient nobles, before they changed the hospitable magnificence of a life spent amongst numerous tenantry, for the uncertain honours of court attendance, and the equivocal rewards of ministerial favour." It was here that the celebrated Lord William Howard, better known as Bold or Belted Will Howard,* a man
	* "Lord William," says Mr. Howard, in his Memorials of the Howard Family, "is in the Lay of the Last Minstrel called by Sir Walter Scott Belted Will Howard, meaning, I apprehend, that he was in the habit of wearing the baldrick, or broad belt, which was formerly worn as a distinguishing badge by persons of high station. But this, as to him, is not at all founded on fact, as the belts which he wears in his pictures are particularly narrow. But the characteristic epithet with which his name has come down to our time is Bauld, meaning 'Bold Wyllie.' That of his lady is 'Bessie with the braid apron;' not, I conceive, from any embroidery of that part of her dress, but using the word broad, which is often so pronounced, in allusion to the breadth or extent of her possessions."
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