Rebellion in the North Partes by the two earls of Northumberland & Westmorland & leonard Dacres in the year of our lord god 1569 & the 9th day of November. A sore plague was in London, notinghome Derbie & lincolne in the year 1593. A sore plague in new castle, durrome & Dernton in the year of our lord god 1597. A sore plague in Richmond Kendal Penrith Carliell Apulbie and other places in Westmorland and Cumberland in the year of our lord god 1598 of this plague there dyed at Kendal"--a few words more, now very indistinct, follow, and the remainder of the page is cut or torn off. Several records of the ravages committed by the plague in Cumberland and Westmorland are preserved in the more populous parts. The following inscription on the wall in Penrith Church is singular:-- AD MDXCVIII Ex gravi peste quæ regionibus hisce incubuit, obierunt apud Penrith 2260 Kendal 2500 Richmond 2200 Carlisle 1196 Posteri Avertite vos et vivite Ezek. 18th ---- 32 ---- From the Register it appears that William Wallis was vicar at the time; the following entries noting the beginning and end of the calamity are interesting:-- "1597. 22d of September, Andrew Hodgson, a foreigner, was buried." "Here begonne the plague (God's punismet in Perith.)" "All those that are noted with the ltre P. dyed of the infection; and those noted with F. were buried on the Fell." "December 13th, 1598, Here ended the visitation." The fear of infection prevented the continuance of the usual markets; and places without the town were appointed for purchasing the provisions brought by the country people. The Church register in the neighbouring parish of Edenhall takes notice of 42 persons dying in the same year, of the plague, in that village. Some centuries previous to this, in 1380, when the Scots made an inroad into Cumberland, under the Earl of Douglas, Penrith was suffering from a visitation of the same nature; they surprised the place at the time of a fair, and returned with immense booty; but they introduced into their country the plague contracted in this town, which swept away one-third of the inhabitants of Scotland.