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Bainbridge Inscriptions, Appleby
Bainbridge Inscriptions
Street:-   Chapel Street
locality:-   Appleby
civil parish:-   Appleby-in-Westmorland (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
coordinates:-   NY68232039
1Km square:-   NY6820
10Km square:-   NY62

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evidence:-   old text:- Pennant 1773
item:-  plague; market
source data:-   Book, A Tour from Downing to Alston Moor, 1773, by Thomas Pennant, published by Edward Harding, 98 Pall Mall, London, 1801.
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Pennant's Tour 1773, page 142  "... some antiquities have been found in its neighbourhood. Numbers of inscriptions are preserved in a wall near the public school, placed there by Reginald Bainbridge the schoolmaster, in the time it was visited by Camden. There is no certainty of any of them having been found at Appleby, and several were"
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Pennant's Tour 1773, page 143  "copied on stone from originals now lost, but found in other places; and many are said to have been altered according to his fancy, with a singular conceit. He has given, of his own composition, three inscriptions cut à l'antique, which stand with the others."
"The first is historical, and settles the time in which the Romans had a station here; then gives the time in which it suffered the ravages of the Scots; after that commemorates a scourge of the pestilence, and finally the removal of the market to Gilshaughline. The last was occasioned by the plague, of which a hundred and twenty died in the town and parish."
"The next inscription is in memory of the founders of the school; and the third is a tribute he pays to his own -"
""ABALLABA QVAM CC.
"FLVIT ITVNA. STATIO FVIT
"RO. TEMP. MAVR. AREL.
"HANC VASTAVIT. F. F.
"GVIL. R. SCOT. 1176.
"HIC PESTIS SAEVIT 1598
"OPP. DESERT MERCAT
"AS GILSHAVGLINE.
"DEVM TIME.""
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Pennant's Tour 1773, page 144  ""ROBERTO LANG
"TON ET MILONI
"SPENSER QVI
"APPLEBIAE F: F.
"HANC SC
"H. M. OBM. P.R.B.P.""
""R. BAINEBRIG
"HOC AED. HIPOD
"IDASCALS D.D.
"IN P P. 1606.""
evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) 
source data:-   Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition by Richard Gough, published London, 1789.
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Page 157:-  "..."
"... The curious collection of inscriptions made here [Free Grammar School] by Mr. Camden's friend Bainbridge were dispersed or stolen at the rebuilding of the school in this century, except those to be specified. So little consolation have collectors who labour for incurious or ungrateful posterity!"
""Upon a front of a little building made of stone by Mr. Reginald Bainbrigg in 1602, he being then schoolmaster of the freeschool of Appleby, are placed divers stones having Roman inscriptions upon them; which he (being much affected to those antiquities) had got together from several parts of this county, and also out of Northumberland and Cumberland. They are placed in two ranks, twelve in one and eight in the other. There is one also above towards the roof; and another on a coyne-stone looking towards the south. There are two more also on the front of the school-house, viz. on each side of the doore one."
""The letters upon some of these seeme to have been cut deeper, by direction of the sayd Mr. Bainbrigg, in respect they were all most worne out by time."
""Of some of these Mr. Cambden hath printed copyes in his Britannia, which were communicated to him by this school-master, as he acknowledgeth."
""There are three other stones, viz. one standing just ouer the doore of the sayd building, and the other adjoyning to it towards the south, whereon are these following inscriptions, cut by direction of the sayd Mr. Bainbrigg, viz."
"ABALLABA QUAM C.C.
FLVIT ITVNIA STATIO FVIT
RO: TEM M. AVR. AVREL.
HANC VASTAVIT FF
GVIL. R. SCOT 1176
HIC PESTIS SAEVIT 1598
OPP. DESERT. MERCAT'
AS GILSHAVGHLIN F.
DEVM TIME."
"D. O. M.
D.L.L.M. REGINALDVS
BAINBRIG QVI DOCVIT.
HIC. ANN. XXII. AET. S. 57. 1602.
H.M.S.V.P."
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Page 158:-  "ROBERTO LANG
TON ET MILLONI
SPEIVCER QVI
APLEBEIAE F. f.
HANC SCOLAM
H.M.OB.M.P.R.B.P."
"DE REPUBLICA BENE MERERE
PVLCHRYM EST."
"C.C. in the 4th line in circumfluit, F.F. in the 4th funditus, and the last F. fuit. So that here we have its Roman antiquity, its devastation by war and pestilence, and the removal of the market to Gilshaughlin four or five miles north-west of the town in Cliburn parish."
""The other stones which are placed on the front of this building, all except two, I take to be copies made by the said Reginald Bainbrig, from severall originals which he found in sundry places of this country and the parts adjacent; most of which are published by Mr. Camden, if not all.""
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 The photos are taken top then bottom working left to right.
The inscriptions are in a very sad state.

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person:-    : Bainbridge, Reginald
see:-    school, Appleby
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