Lays and Legends of the English Lake Country With Copious Notes

It contains about four acres of ground, is planted with firs and other trees, and has a curious octagonal cottage built with unhewn stones, and artificially mossed over and that...

The ancient family of the Curwens of Workington can trace their descent to Ivo de Tailbois and Elgiva daughter of Ethelred, King of England. Ivo came to England with the Conquer...

The singular name of the "Crier of Claife" is now applied to an extensive slate or flag quarry, long disused, and overgrown with wood, on the wildest and most lonely part of the...

Until the year 1823, there was an old oak on Wragmire Moss, well known as _the last tree of Inglewood Forest_, which had survived the blasts of 700 or 800 winters. This "time-ho...

And Sir Michael brooded an autumn day, As he looked on the slope at his child at play, On the green by the sounding water's fall: And often those words did he recall-- "We wait...

The murder in cold blood of this unarmed boy, for he was only twelve or at most seventeen years old, while supplicating for his life, was not the only atrocity committed by Lord...

When there is a break or opening in the Bar, the wind is said to rush through with great violence, and to extend over the country. Here again, the effect is mistaken for the cau...

The manor in which Ravenglass is included is dependent on the barony of Egremont; and King John granted to Richard Lucy, as lord paramount, a yearly fair to be held here on St....

"These visionary horsemen seemed to come from the lowest part of Souther Fell, and became visible first at a place called KNOTT: they then moved in regular troops along the side...

And thus the night was filled with moan. And was the good Earl slain and gone? For him the Prince that came in vain, A King, to enjoy his own again.

This plant "whose juice is now sweet, but was then bitter," is assumed to be one of the species of Nightshade which are indigenous in the dell and flourish there in great luxuri...

King James was magnificently entertained at Brougham Castle, on the sixth, seventh, and eighth days of August, 1617, on his return from his last journey out of Scotland. After t...

Our own histories make no mention of anything bearing upon the subject, but there seem to be good reasons for concluding that Cumberland was also invaded from the sea coast. The...

Fire cleanses: she must cleanse by fire. With oaken garland, white attire, Bearing the mistletoe, Beside the wicker hut her feet Pause--till her eyes her lover greet, And cheer...

Mr. Gilpin conjectures that the pile was probably intended to mark a division not between the two Counties of Cumberland and Westmorland, but rather between the two kingdoms of...

On the northern bank of the river Calder, in a deeply secluded vale, sheltered by majestic forest trees, which rise from the skirts of level and luxuriant meadows to the tops of...

"In early date, When I was beardless, young, and blate, E'en then a wish, I mind its power, A wish that to my latest hour Shall strongly heave my breast; That I for poor auld _C...

The noon was past; the sun's bright ray Sloped slowly down his westering way With mellower light; the sobering gleams Touched Glenderamakin's farthest streams; Flung all the ric...

Denton (MS.) speaking of Whitehaven or White-Toft Haven, says "It was belonging to St. Beghs of antient time, for the Abbot of York, in Edward I.'s time was impleaded for wreck,...

[5] This hollow, in the summit of Walla Crag, is visible from the road below. Rake, the term applied in this country to openings in the hills like this, is an old Norse word, si...

The society numbered three and thirty monks at the time of its dissolution, and about one hundred converts and servants, and no convert was admitted who could not pay for the la...

The day being far advanced before the King arrived at Stoke, he pitched his camp and deferred the battle till the day following. The forces of the Earl of Lincoln also encamped...

Two hundred years have rolled away, since the generation that saw those events has vanished from the earth, and every tangible memorial of the island hero has been thought to ha...

An old tradition connects the lords of this Castle with the Crusades. One version of it given in the histories of Cumberland, for it is variously related, is to this effect:--"T...

Thomas Warcup prepar'd this stone, To mind him of his best home. Little but sin and misery here, Till we be carried on our bier. Out of the grave and earth's dust, The Lord will...