Lays and Legends of the English Lake Country: With Copious NotesWhite, John Pagen
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Lays and Legends of the English Lake Country: With Copious Notes
White, John Pagen
Lake District (England) -- Poetry; Legends -- England -- Lake District
Of the three and thirty monks of which the society at Furness was
composed, the names of the Abbot, the Prior, and twenty-eight of
the brethren, were appended to the deed: two had been committed to
ward and sure custody in the King's castle of Lancaster, for being
"found faultye:"[17] and one of the number remains unaccounted for.
FOOTNOTES:
[10] _Saccum._--The power of imposing fines upon tenants and vassals
within the lordship.
[11] _Soccum._--The power and authority of administering justice.
[12] _Tollum._--A duty paid for buying and selling, &c.
[13] _Theam, Team._--A royalty granted for trying bondmen and villains,
with a sovereign power over their villain tenants, their wives,
children, and goods, to dispose of them at pleasure.
[14] _Infangenetheof._--The power of judging of thefts committed within
the liberty of Furness.
[15] _Clibanus_, a portable oven: the term probably represents the
quantity of bread contained in it at one baking.
[16] This sum is stated by West to be £151, which Mr. Beck says is
a mistake. The deed of surrender of Bolton Priory was signed by the
Prior and fourteen canons. Of the subscribers to this instrument, two,
in 1553, which would be about sixteen years after their dissolution,
continued to receive annuities of £6 13s. 4d.; one, £6; seven, £5
6s. 8d. each: and one, £4. The other canons were dead, or otherwise
provided for.
[17] For treason. One of them, Henry Talley, had said that no secular
knave should be head of the Church; and the other had declared that the
king was not the true king, and no rightful heir to the crown.
KING DUNMAIL.
They buried on the mountain's side
King Dunmail, where he fought and died.
But mount, and mere, and moor again
Shall see King Dunmail come to reign.
Mantled and mailed repose his bones
Twelve cubits deep beneath the stones;
But many a fathom deeper down
In Grisedale Mere lies Dunmail's crown.
Climb thou the rugged pass, and see
High midst those mighty mountains three,
How in their joint embrace they hold
The Mere that hides his crown of gold.
There in that lone and lofty dell
Keeps silent watch the sentinel.
A thousand years his lonely rounds
Have traced unseen that water's bounds.
His challenge shocks the startled waste,
Still answered from the hills with haste,
As passing pilgrims come and go
From heights above or vales below.
When waning moons have filled their year,
A stone from out that lonely Mere
Down to the rocky Raise is borne,
By martial shades with spear and horn.
As crashes on the pile the stone,
The echoes to the King make known
How still their faithful watch they hold
In Grisedale o'er his crown of gold.
And when the Raise has reached its sum,
Again will brave King Dunmail come;
And all his Warriors marching down
The dell, bear back his golden crown.
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