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Barony of Burgh by Sands |
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Cumbria (Cumberland) |
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barony |
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old text:- Pennant 1773
item:- land tenure; cornage
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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."
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old text:- Camden 1789
placename:- Barony of Burgh
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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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"... 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."
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Created by Ranulph de Meschines in the Land of Carlisle, to be a defence against Scotland
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Ferguson, Richard S: 1890 &1970 (reprinted): History of Cumberland
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