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| Burrellgreen, Great Salkeld | ||
| Burrellgreen | ||
| civil parish:- | Great Salkeld (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | buildings | |
| coordinates:- | NY54593533 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY5435 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY53 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 50 6) placename:- Burrell Green |
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| source data:- | Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25
inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton,
Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. |
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| story:- |
A brass dish dating from 1417 was given to a daughter of this house when married to
the King of Mardale. A servant was sent to get water from a well, and the witch of
the well asked for food and drink in return for the water and a blessing on the wedding,
and a dish. An inscription on the dish reads:- |
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| "Mary Mother of Jesus. Saviour of Men. If e'er this dish be sold or gi'en, Farewell the Luck of Burrell Green." |
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| The dish has ever since been kept with the farm. |
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| Mr Hartshorne, in Old English Glasses, published by Arnold, London, 1897, p.141, says:- |
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| "The Luck of Burrell Green lacks the essential quality of Lucks, namely, fragility.
It is a brass charger, 16 inches in diameter, of late sixteenth century character,
... Such a travestie of picturesque antiquity tends to shake the faith in luck altogether." |
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| This luck may have done duty as an alms dish in a church. |
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