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Barony of Burgh by Sands, Cumberland
Barony of Burgh by Sands
county:-   Cumbria (Cumberland) 
locality type:-   barony

evidence:-   old text:- Pennant 1773
item:-  land tenurecornage
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 185  "... I must not quit the spot without saying, that, after the Conquest, De Meschines bestowed this barony on his brother-in-law Robert de Estrivers or Trevers. From him it fell by marriage to the Ewgayns, and from them again to the De Morvilles. This, and divers other lands in this county, were held by cornage, or the service of blowing a horn by way of alarm whenever an invasion of the Scots was perceived."

evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789
placename:-  Barony of Burgh
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 173:-  "..."
"... Burgh upon sands, whence the neighbouring country is called the Barony of Burgh, which Meschines lord of Cumberland gave to Robert de Trivers, and from him it came to the Morvilles, of whom the last Hugh left a daughter, who, by her second husband Thomas de Molton had Thomas Molton, lord of this place, whose son Thomas, by marriage with the heiress of Hubert de Vaulx, added Gillesland to his other estates, all which came at length to Ranulph de Dacre by marriage with Maud Molton. But nothing has rendered this little town so remarkable as the immature death of Edward I. who here ended his days after triumphing over all his enemies: a most renowned monarch, in whose gallant soul the spirit of God found an abode worthy of it to match the state of royalty not only with courage and wisdom, but with personal comeliness and dignity of body; and whom fortune in the prime of life exercised in many wars and most difficult events of state, while she was training him for the British sceptre, which, after he came to the crown, he so managed by the reduction of Wales and conquest of Scotland, that he may justly be accounted one of the glories of Britain."

hearsay:-  
Created by Ranulph de Meschines in the Land of Carlisle, to be a defence against Scotland


Ferguson, Richard S: 1890 &1970 (reprinted): History of Cumberland

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