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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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Page 151:- "... 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 [Barony of Appleby]
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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