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Daniel Scott. Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland
Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland
Table of Contents
Preface
An Unparalleled Sheriffwick
Watch and Ward
Fighting Bishops and Fortified Churches
Some Church Curiosities
Manorial Laws and Curiosities of Tenures
Old-Time Punishments
Some Legends and Superstitions
Four Lucks
Some Old Trading Laws and Customs
Old-Time Home Life
Sports and Festivities
On the Road
Old Customs
Old School Customs
Index
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Daniel Scott
Published by Good Press, 2021
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The hill before being planted as it now appears, was simply a bare fell, without enclosures of any kind. The late Rev. Beilby Porteus, Edenhall, in one of his books,[2] after mentioning the uses of Penrith Beacon, added:—“Before these parts were enclosed, every parish church served as a means of communication with its neighbours; and, while the tower of Edenhall Church bears evident tokens of such utility, there yet exist at my other church at Langwathby, a morion, back, and breast-plate, which the parish were obliged to provide for a man, termed the ‘Jack,’ whose business it was at a certain hour in the evening to keep watch, and report below, if he perceived any signs of alarm, or indications of incursions from the Border.”
South Westmorland had as its most important look-out station, Farleton Knott, where “a beacon was sustained in the days of Scottish invasion, the ruddy glow of which was responded to by the clang of arms and the war notes of the bugle.”
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