North East View of Scaleby Castle, in the County of
Cumberland.
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Print, uncoloured engraving, The North East View of
Scaleby Castle, in the County of Cumberland, drawn and
engraved by Samuel and Nathaniel Buck, 1739, reprinted by
Hudson Scott and Sons, Carlisle, Cumberland, 1877.
With descriptive text of 1837. No.9 in The Castles, Abbeys, and Priories of the County of Cumberland, 1877. |
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THE NORTH-EAST VIEW OF SCALEBY-CASTLE, IN THE COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND. |
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To Richard Gilpin Esqr : This Prospect is humbly Inscribed by his Oblig'd Servants, Saml. & Nathl. Buck. dedication |
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THIS Castle wch. is still surrounded with a Mote in very good Order, was built by Richard the Rider, surnam'd Tiliolff, who first possess'd ye Manor of Scaleby by the Grant of K. Hen : I. From him it descended along with ye said Manor, for abut ten Generation unto Robt. Tiliolff, who died in ye Reign of K. Hen : VI. without Issue. Then it came by Marriage of ye Heiress, to ye Pickerings, & afterwds. from Them, by ye like means, to ye Musgraves of Hayton in this County, of whom, after it had suffer'd much in ye Civil Wars, it was purchas'd by Richd. Gilpin Esqr. M.D. Grandfather of Richard Gilpin Esqr. ye present Proprietor. Saml. & Nathl. Buck delin : et sculp : Publish'd according to Act of Parliament March 26. 1739. |
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