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Print, uncoloured engraving, Lanercost Priory,
Cumberland, engraved by Sparrow, published by Samuel Hooper,
212 High Holborn, London, 1783.
Included in The Antiquities of England and Wales, by Francis
Grose.
Pasted in the Lowther scrapbook, vol.4; between pp.504-505;
with descriptive text:-
LANERCOST PRIORY, CUMBERLAND. / PLATE II. / THIS Priory is
situated in a romantic valley, a small distance north of the
river Irthing, and a little to the southward of the Picts
Wall. / ITS remains consist of the Priory-church, and some
few of the offices of the Monastery, now fitted up for a
farm-house. / THE Chancel is in ruins, where, amidst shrubs,
brambles, and nettles, appear several very elegant tombs of
the Dacre family, but much damaged by the weather: the way
into one of the vaults beneath is laid so open, that the
stairs leading down are visible. Here are two stories or
series of arches, the under ones circular, supported by
columns of great thickness, some cylindrical, and some
polygonal. About the ruined parts of this building many
ash-trees have taken root, and flourish among the disjointed
stones, affording a very picturesque appearance. The Nave is
in good repair, and serves for the Parish-church; it has two
side aisles divided by pointed arches of a very considerable
span. / ON a stone on the inside of the East Wall, is the
following inscription: / 'Robertus de Vallibus filius
Huberti Domini de Gisland Fundator Prioratus de Lanercost,
A.D. 1116. AEdergaini Uxor ejus sine Prole Reverndus G.
Story hujus Ec. Pastor Grato Animo hunc lapidem posuit
1761.' / Which may be thus translated: 'Robert de Vallibus,
the son of Hubert, Lord of Gisland, Founder of the Priory of
Lanercost, A.D. 1116. AEdergane his wife had no children.
The Rev. G. Story, A.M. minister of this Church, out of
gratitude placed this stone 1761.' According to this date,
the Monastery was founded 53 years before the dedication of
the Church. In the east window, under a coat armorial of
three cockle-shells, are the following lines: / Mille &
quigentos ad quiquaginta novemque Adjice, & hoc Anno
condidit istud opus Thomas Daker Eques, sedem qui primus in
istam Venerat, extincta religione loci. Hoc Edvardus ei
dederat, devoverat ante Henricus longae Praemia Militae.' /
'To one thousand and five hundred add fifty and nine, and in
that year Thomas Daker, Esq. built this work. He was the
first who came to this seat after the dissolution of the
Priory. It was given him by Edward, though before promised
by Henry, as a reward for his long military services.' /
PROBABLY the work here alluded to, was the window whereon
the inscription is placed; which in the outrageous zeal of
the Times might have been demolished at the surrender. The
Church itself is apparently too ancient to be meant. / THE
west front of this Building was neatly finished, and in a
niche near the top is an elegant female figure. A small
distance west of the Church, in what was the
Church-yard-wall, is the remains of a handsome gate, whose
arch is a segment of a large circle. About a mile
south-east-ward, on an eminence, stands Naworth Castle,
which is plainly seen from hence. This was formerly also the
property of the Dacre family. / THIS Monastery, at present,
belongs to the Earl of Carlisle, into whose family it came
by a marriage with the sister and co-heir of the last Lord
Dacre. / IT is by some related, that this Priory was founded
as an expiation for the death of one Giles Bueth, who
pretending to have a right to the Barony of Gillisland, was
slain by Robert de Vallibus, or Hubert his father. But as no
such motive is mentioned, or hinted at in the Charter of
Foundation, probably it is a groundless story. / IN the year
1306, as appears in Leland's Collectanea, King Edward the
First remained here some time, whilst he sent his Justices
to Berwick, who there, according to Stowe, tried hundreds
and thousands of breakers of the peace and conspirators,
many of whom were hanged.; 'and the Countess of Bowen was
closed in a cage, whose breadth, length, height, and depth,
was eight foote, and hanged over the walls of Berwicke.' /
This View, which represents the West Aspect of the Priory
Church, was drawn Anno 1774.
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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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