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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 121 "The first who held this great barony was Ivo de Tailebois, brother to Fulk earl of Anjou. He came in with the Conqueror, and received from him that part of Lancashire which joins to this county, and all the great tract afterwards styled the Barony of Kendal. He became the first baron. It remained in his family several generations; then was transferred, by the marriage of Helwise daughter of William de Lancastre, to Gilbert, son of Roger Fitz-Reinfred, a potent man in the reign of Richard I. On the death of William de Lancastre the third, who died in the reign of Henry III. the barony was divided among his three sisters, Helwisia, Alicia, and Serota: the last dying without issue, it became the property of the survivors. - One share was distinguished by the name of the Richmond-fee, the other by that of the Marquis and the Lumley-fee."
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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 former belongs to the diocese of
Chester, ... 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 of these wards
are in Kendal Barony, Kendale and Lonsdale wards; ..."
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