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Title: The counties of England, their story and antiquities
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930
Subjects: Great Britain -- History England -- Antiquities
Publisher: London : G. Allen
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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t. Some of the holdings were nagtenements, the holder being obliged to furnish a certainnumber of horses, or to attend on horseback; while otherswere only obliged to serve on foot or to provide archersand bill-men. Learning was not forgotten amid the dales of West-morland. There was a famous Abbey of Shap, foundedby Thomas, son of Gospatric, for the Prasmonstratensiancanons of Preston in Kendal, and dedicated by him toGod and St. Mary Magdalene. A Westmorland man,Robert de Eglesfield, chaplain to Queen Philippa, wifeof Edward III., founded Queens College, Oxford, andmade ample provision by scholarships for the educationof the natives of his shire, a connection which is stillpreserved. His foundation has produced many learnedand good men, such as Bishop Barlow, of Lincoln, bornat Orton in 1607; Bishop Gibson, of London, born at 1 The milk-white cloth was a Kendal manufacture, as well as Kendal-green and Kendal cottons. Camden describes the town Lanificii gloria etindustria prsecellens.
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Westmorland 89 Bampton in 1669; Dr. John Mill, born at Shap in 1645,chaplain to Charles II., principal of St. Edmunds Hall,Oxford, a famous Greek Testament scholar; Dr. Shaw,a Kendal man, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford,and many others. Perhaps the most remarkable of theseQueens scholars was Bernard Gilpin, born at Kentmore,near Kendal, in 1517, who studied at Louvain, vicar ofHoughton-le-Spring, styled the Apostle of the North,who was offered the Bishopric of Carlisle, but preferredto minister to his people and preach to those who in thosetroublous times had no clergyman. A zealous reformer,he nearly was doomed to death in Marys reign. Hewas arrested on a charge of heresy, and conveyed toLondon; but during his journey the Queen died and thushe escaped that danger. In our account of Appleby wehave seen that the county saw some fighting, and in therebellion of 1745 the Pretender and his forces marchedthrough the shire without gaining any adherents, orreceiving much opposition from

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