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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.'
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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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