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Print, engraving, Naworth Castle, Brampton, Cumberland,
by DL, 1774.
Pasted in the Lowther scrapbook, vol.4; between pp.490-491;
with descriptive text:-
NAWORTH CASTLE, CUMBERLAND. / PLATE II. / TRADITION says
this castle was built by the Dacres, but by which of them is
not ascertained. One of these, Robert de Dacre, from a
quotation in Madox's History of the Exchequer, seems to have
been sheriff of Cumberland, and another, Ranulph de Dacre,
14th. of Ed. 1st, constable of the tower. / THE first
mention of this castle is in the reign of Richard 2d. when
in the 18th of that reign, it appears from Madox's Baronia,
that William de Dacre, son and heir of Hugh de Dacre, who
was brother and heir of Ranulph de Dacre, held it, with the
manor of Irchington, to which it belonged; also the manors
of Burgh, near Sandes, Laysingby, and Farlham, and other
lands, by the service of one entire barony, and of doing
homage and fealty to the king, and of yielding to him for
cornage at his exchequer at Carlile yearly, at the feast of
the assumption of St. Mary, 51s. 8d. By what feofment,
whether old or new, says Madox, does not appear; neither in
what king's reign Ranulph de Dacre, ancestor of William here
named, was feoff'd; but it is plain, some ancestor under
whom Ranulph claimed, was enfeft to hold by barony. / IT
continued in the family of the Dacres, till the year 1569,
when on the 17th of May, according to Stowe, 'George Lord
Dacre of Greystoke, sonne and heire of Thomas Lord Dacre,
being a child in yeere's, and then ward to Thomas Lord
Howard, Duke of Norfolk, was by a great mischaunce slayne at
Thetford, in the house of Sir Richard Falmenstone, knight,
by meane of a vauting horse of wood, standing within the
same house; upon which horse, as he meant to have vauted,
and the pinnes at the feet being not made sure, the horse
fell upon him, and bruised the brains out of his head.' / IN
the January following, Leonard de Dacre, Esq; of Horsley, in
the county of York, second son to Lord William Dacre of
Gilsland, being dissatisfied with a legal decision, by which
his nieces were adjudged to succeed to the estate of their
brother the Lord Dacre, whose tragical death was just here
related; he entered into a rebellion, with design to carry
off the Queen of Scots; but being disappointed by her
removal to Coventry, and having the command of 3000 men,
which he been entrusted to raise for the queen's service, he
seized several castles, among which were those of Greystock
and Naworth; but being attacked and defeated by Lord
Hunsdon, at the head of the garrison of Berwick, he fled to
Flanders, where he died. / THIS castle next came into the
possession of Lord William Howard, the third son of Thomas
Duke of Norfolk, in right of his wife Elizabeth, sister of
George, the last Lord Dacre, beforementioned. In 1607, when
Cambden visited it, it was under repair; and Bishop Gibson
says, it was again repaired, and made fit for the reception
of a family, by the Right Hon. Charles Howard, great
grandson to the Lord William Howard beforementioned. / I
shall here transcribe another description of this castle and
furniture, sent me by a gentleman who viewed it anno 1732,
which though it repeats many things mentioned in the former
account, yet it has also diverse circumstances worthy
observation, not there taken notice of. / 'THIS is an
ancient stone building; the front long, with a square tower
at each angle; then you enter a court. In the noble hall,
the pictures of Anglo-Saxon kings, and painted on wooden
square panels, make the ceiling, and part of the wainscot at
the further end of the room: they were brought from
Kirk-Oswald castle when that was demolished. The chapel has
a ceiling, and part of its wainscot of the same kind, being
paintings of patriarchs, Jewish kings, &c. Here is also
painted a genealogy of the family from Fulcho, with their
arms. It has a floor of plaster of Paris, as have some other
of the rooms. Some of the apartments are very large and
spacious; the ceiling of one consists of small square panels
of wood, black and white interchangeably; the white has two
different carvings, the black is unwrought. The very little
Popish chapel is above stairs; the inside work curiously
carved and gilt; here are some small figures of the passion,
&c. Joining to this chapel is the library, which has a good
wooden roof; the books are old; there are not above one or
two of the manuscripts here now. Vide Cat. Librorum M. S.
Angl. & Hib. Tom 2d, p.14, &c. The Earl of Carlisle never
lives here, but at Castle-Howard in Yorkshire. In the garden
wall are stones with Roman inscriptions, collected probably
from the Picts Wall; a general account of these stones is
given in Horsley's Britannia Romana.' / CAMBDEN, who also
mentions these stones, gives the following copy of some of
their inscriptions. One is, / IVL. AVG. DVO. . M SILV. . VM
/ On another / .I. O. M .... II .AEL . DAC .. C.P ... EST
VRELIVS. FA. L. S. TRIB. PET. VO. COS. / On a third, / LEG.
II. AVG. / On a fourth, / COH. J. AEL. DAC. CORD. . ALEC .
PER ... / THESE stones were, by the late Earl of Carlisle,
given to Sir Thomas Robinson, who married his sister, and
were by him removed to his museum in Rooksby. / This view,
which represents the entrance to the castle, was drawn anno
1772.
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from:-
Scrapbook, 4 volumes, History of Westmorland and Cumberland
Illustrated, of descriptive texts, maps, and prints of views
and coats of arms, for Westmorland and Cumberland, assembled
by a member of the Lowther Family, late 18th early 19th
century.
The volumes are quarter bound, with marbled paper on the
covers; each has a bookplate inside the front cover. The
pages cut from various sources are nicely mounted, two sided
pieces set neatly in a window in the scrapbook page.
The main content is the whole of the two volumes of The
History and Antiquities of the Counties of Westmorland and
Cumberland, by Joseph Nicolson and Richard Burn, published
London, 1777. Nicolson and Burn volume 1 is in scrapbook
volumes 1 and 2, volume 2 in scrapbook volumes 3 and 4. Maps
and prints are interspersed to make an illustrated version
of the history.
Some of the sources of maps and prints have been
recognised:-
Maps - coast of Cumberland etc by Andrew Dury, 1764;
Westmorland and Cumberland by Richard Blome, 1673; sheets
from Britannia Depicta, Emanuel Bowen, 1720; Cumberland by
John Speed, Henry Overton edn 1695; Cumberland by John Cary
1787.
Prints from the Set of prints, 20 engravings, Views of the
Lakes etc in Cumberland and Westmorland, drawn by Joseph
Farington, published by William Byrne, London, 1789. Note
that plate numbers vary from edition to edition of this set.
Prints from the Antiquities of Great Britain, drawings by
Thomas Hearne, engraved by William Byrne, published by
Hearne and Byrne, London, 1786-1807.
Prints from Britannia Illustrata, drawings by Leonard Knyff,
engraved by John Kip, published London, 1707-1740.
Print from A Tour in England and Scotland, by Thomas Newte,
published by G G J and J Robinson, Paternoster Row, London,
1788..
Some of the coat of arms are cut from A Display of Heraldrie
by John Guillim late Pursuivant at Armes, published London,
about 1610-11 to 1755.
Coats of arms probably from The Baronetage of England, by
Edward Kimber and Richard Johnson, published London? 1771.
Pages from The Antiquarian Repertory, by Francis Grose,
Thomas Astle, et al, published London, 1775-1809.
Text from the Baronetage of England by Collins?
Scraps cut from an unidentified gazetteer.
At the end is the title page and pp.7-51 from A General View
of the Agriculture of the County of Cumberland, by John
Bailey and George Culley, published by C Macrae, London,
1794.
Individual maps and prints are documented separately; with a
note of their position in the scrapbooks.
inscription:-
: embossed: label on spine: (tatty remains): HI[ ] / [
]/WEST[ ]M[ ] / [ ] / CUM[ ]M[ ] / ILLUS[ ]T[E ]
inscription:-
: printed & embossed: bookplate: gold on grey; crest, 6
annulets from the coat of arms, flowers, thistles: LOWTHER
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