Gents Mag 1849 part 2 p.250
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Gentleman's Magazine 1849 part 2 p.250
[Philip]sons lay the lands of Thomas Laybourne of Cunswick Hall, a descendant from that bold baron who for his uncompromising spirit is described with such raciness in the old Norman poem of the Siege of Caerlaverock as "a valiant man, without but and without if, sans mes et sans si." In the annals of the Philipsons it is recorded that an agreement, subsequently confirmed by a deed, bearing date A.D. 1480, was entered into between the principal men of these two families, to the effect that Edmund Philipson should marry Janet the daughter of the said Thomas Laybourne, and if Edmund should die before such event then that she should be given in marriage to his brother. As this union with Edmund does not appear to have taken place, he must have died before its celebration, whereupon Robert became her husband. These are the persons to whom the inscription remaining in the hall window refers, and it is probable that on the occasion of their marriage the hall at Calgarth was built - though the existing enrichments of the interior may on various grounds be considered the productions of a later period, and the family then settled there, as in the early part of Henry the Eighth's reign they are styled "of Calgarth." Previous to the time of this last named sovereign, it was the practice of the monasteries and abbeys throughout England to have all considerable donations secured and confirmed to them, by every descent, from the first donor or benefactor; and hence it is accounted for that there are found in some of the chartularies and lieger books of the old religious houses the regular pedigrees of every family of any note or consequence up to the period of the dissolution of such institutions. From the records of the religious communities it was that the distinguished genealogist and herald, Sir William Dugdale subsequently laid the foundation of his great work on the Baronage of England. When after the Reformation such monastic records were discontinued, it became the duty of the heralds to perambulate the several counties at certain intervals, when they received and examined the pedigrees of the several families, approved the genuine, rejected the spurious, and respited the doubtful for further consideration, blazoned the arms, and granted new bearings to new families, or new marks of distinction to different branches of the same family. The last visitation for these purposes, in Westmerland and Cumberland, was made in the years 1664 and 1665, by the accomplished herald I have named, who was the particular friend of that Mr. Machel whose genealogical collections towards a history of Westmerland were enriched in no small degree by his intimacy and correspondence with Sir William. Dr. Burn (who subsequently was extensively indebted to Mr. Machel's labours), for the information of individuals curious in the minute circumstances of the lives of those who long ago formed the important body of the ancient gentry of England, has in the pedigree given of the Philipsons preserved, among other particulars relating to them, the form by which in Queen Elizabeth's time the herald confirmed the arms of De Thirlwall to Rowland Philipson of Calgarth, and granted him a crest to the same; and in this age, when a critical study of heraldry, once stigmatised as "the science of fools with long memories," though as has been justly said "it should rather be designated as a science which, if properly directed, would make fools wise," is reviving throughout England, it perhaps may have interest if here inserted. "To all and singular, as well nobles, gentles, as others, to whom these presents come, to be seen, heard, read, or understood, Robert Cooke esquire, Clarencieulx King of Arms of the East, West, and South parts of this realm of England, sendeth greetings. For as much as Rowland Philipson, alias, Therlwall, of Calgarth, in the co. of Westmerland, and Miles Philipson, alias Therlwall, of Thwatterden Hall, in the co. aforesaid, brothers, sons to Christopher Therlwall of Thwatterden Hall aforesaid, which Rowland was descended of a younger brother forth of the house of Thirlwall, in the co. of Northumberland, which said Rowland, by reason of the Christian name of one of his ancestors was called Philip, the younger son of the said Philip was called Philipson, and so continueth the same surname, which Rowland their ancestor |
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