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Print, engraving, Lanercost Priory, Burtholme, Cumberland, engraved by J Wooding, late 18th century?
Pasted in the Lowther scrapbook, vol.4; between pp.504-505; accompanied with descriptive belong to a Hearne and Byrne print:-
LANERCOST PRIORY, / Situated upon the north side of the river Irthing, in the county of Cumberland, was founded, as appears by an inscription in the Church, by Robert de Vallibus or Vaux, Lord of Gilsland or Gilesland, in the year of our Lord 1116, and dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene, 53 years after, in the sixteenth year of the reign of Henry II. by Bernard, second Bishop of Carlisle. It is said this Monastery was built in expiation of a murder that the Founder had committed on one Giles Bueth, a descendant of the Saxon owner of Gilsland. This Giles Bueth was a competitor with William Meschines, the Norman grantee, for the possession of this Barony; after whose death Henry II. gave it to Robert de Vallibus, who to secure his possession of it, is said to have killed Giles Bueth in a most perfidious manner. / By the original deed of gift from Robert de Vallibus, this Monastery for Monks of the Augustine Order, was endowed with the Village of Walton, and the Church of the same place, with the Chapel of Ireverman, and the Churches of Irthington, Brampton, Carlton and Farlham; the said Robert gave to it likewise the lands of Warthecolman, Roswrageth, Appletrethwait, and Brenskibeth, with pannage in the forest of Walton; as also pasture for thirty cows and twenty sows, with their respective young to the second year: he granted moreover to the Monks of this house, the bark of timber-wood in his barony, which had been Bueth's lands, and the dry and fallen wood in his forests for their fuel, with liberty to have mills and fishings in Erthing, Hortingburn, and other places. / King Richard I. granted and confirmed, by Charter, to God, St. Mary Magdalene, and the Prior of Lanercost, all the aforesaid benefactions; and farther confirmed to them, as the gift of Robert de Vallibus, the tithes of all the venison of the said Robert and his heirs, as well of the flesh as of the skins, and tithes of the skins of foxes; the tithes also of his lakes and fisheries, and in his waste lands, the tithes of foals, calves, lambs, pigs, wool, cheese, and butter; and if any of these waste lands should afterwards be cultivated, then the full tithes of such improved lands also. / Henry II. granted to this house a like confirmation of its rights and possessions; and Edward I. who often resided at Lanercost, during the preparations for his wars in Scotland, and in his returns from that kingdom, was a great benefactor to this Monastery. / From the manners and piety of the times, it continued to enlarge its privileges and possessions till the general dissolution of the monastic orders, when Henry VIII. by letters patent, dated the 22d of November 1542, granted to Thomas Dacre, Esq. of Lanercost, and his heirs male, in consideration of his true and faithful services, all that the house and site of the late Monastery or Priory of Lanercost, with its Park, and all its appurtenances, situated near the same, &c. to be held of the King in capite by Knight's service: and Edward VI. by letters patent, bearing date the 28th of June, in the sixth year of his reign, granted to the said Thomas the Church of Lanercost, with other Churches, lands, tithes, &c. formerly belonging to the said Priory. / It has been presumed from the authority of some Latin verses, said to have been taken from the Dining Hall of the Monastery, that the house, having been much neglected from the expulsion of the Monks to the year 1559, was at that time repaired by the original Grantee for his own residence; but as these lines are in the east Window of the present Church, they may be supposed principally to refer to his fitting it up as a parish Church, and to the construction of the east wall of it, raised by him across the Nave of the old building next the Choir, reducing it by this means to a proper size for the inhabitants. / This Thomas Dacre, who was afterwards created a Knight, was a natural son of Thomas Lord dacre of the north, and a person of distinguished eminence. The family of Dacre continued at Lanercost Priory till the present century, when James Dacre, Esq; the last heir male, dying without issue, bequeathed the bulk of his estate to his nephew Joseph Appleby, Esq; or Kirklington in Cumberland, with an injunction to assume the name of Dacre, and whose grandson Richard Dacre, Esq; now enjoys it; but the site and demesne of Lanercost Priory having, by the patent of the thirty-fourth year of Henry VIII. been granted to Thomas Dacre, Esq; and his heirs male only, these reverted to the crown, and are now held on lease by the right honourable Frederick Howard, the present Earl of Carlisle. / The View here given, which represents the inside of the Transept of the Priory Church, was taken in the year 1777, and is inscribed to the Reverend Charles Davy, of Onehouse in the County of Suffolk, as a memorial of his attachment to the arts, and of the affection and esteem of his much obliged Friend and Servant, Thomas Hearne. / The Latin verses above mentioned are these which follow: / 'Mille et quingentos ad quinquaginta novemque / Adjice, et hoc anno condidit istud opus / Thomas Dacre eques, sedem qui primus in istam / Venerat, extincta religione loci. / Haec Edvardus ei dederat, devoverat ante / Henricus longae praemia militiae.'
inscription:- printed bottom right and centre
J. Wooding sculp / LANERCOST PRIORY, in CUMBERLAND. Pl.II.
wxh, sheet:- 18x14cm
wxh, print:- 181x126mm
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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.

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