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Book, A Tour from Downing to Alston Moor, 1773, by Thomas
Pennant, published by Edward Harding, 98 Pall Mall, London, 1801.
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Pennant's Tour 1773, page 126 "The castle of Harcla stood on an eminence at a small distance from Kirkby Stephen. This, and the manor of the same name, as part of the great barony of Westmoreland, was granted by King John to Robert de Veteripont, a most potent baron of Norman descent, who died in great power, and highly trusted in the reign of Henry III. This barony continued in his male heirs till the death of his grandson Robert, who was slain at the battle of Evesham, where he took part with the Barons. He left two daughters, Isabella and Ivetta, oftener styled Idonea. The King committed these Ladies, being then very young, to the guardianship of Roger de Clifford of Clifford-castle in Herefordshire, and"
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Pennant's Tour 1773, page 127 "Roger de Leybourne. According to the custom of the times, and the real intent of the trust, as soon as the heiresses were of proper age, they were married to the sons of their guardians - Idonea to the son of Leybourne, and Isabella to Roger eldest son of Clifford. ..."
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Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England,
Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition
by Richard Gough, published London, 1789.
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"This county [Westmorland] is divided into the barony of Kendal and the barony of Westmorland,
in later times called the barony of Appleby. ... the latter to that [diocese] of Carlisle.
In each barony we find two wards, being districts of the like number of high-constables,
who presided over the wards to be sustained at certain fords and other places for
repelling plundering parties out of Scotland. ... two in the bottom called East and
West wards. There was antiently a middle ward between the two last, but since watching
and warding ceased it has fallen into the other two."
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