the property of the Slanlies for fome centuries. Before us was an
extenfive, but ihallow ford, formed by the Kent and other rivers,
now palled with trouble by the beating of the waves.
A t the entrance into this water am met by a guide, called here
the Carter, who is. maintained by the public, and obliged in all
weathers to attend here from fun rife to fun fet,, to conduit paflfen-
gers over.
Three miles from the fhore is Cartmet, a fmall town with moil
irregular ftreets, lying in a vale furrounded by high hills. The
gateway o f the monaftery of regular canons of St. Aujlin, founded in
1 188, by William Marefchal, Earl of Pembroke, is ftill Handing.
But this had long been holy ground, having about the year 677,
been given to St. Cuthbert, by Egfrid, King o f Northumberland, with
all its inhabitants, at that time, entirely Britijh.■
The church is large, and in form o f a crofs ; the length is 157
feet : the tranfept 110 : the height 57. The fteeple is moft Angular,
the tower being a fquare within a fquare ; the upper part being
fet diagonally within the lower. The infide of the church is hand-
fome and fpacious : the centre fupported by four large and fine
eluftered pillars : the W eft part more modern than the reft, and the
pillars oft agonal. The choir beautiful, furrounded with ftalls ;
whofe tops and pillars are finely carved with foliage ; and with the
inftruments of the paflion above.
On one fide is the tomb ftone of William de Walton, with a crofs
on it. He was either firft or fécond prior o f this place. The
infcription is only Hic Jacet Frater Wilelmus de Walton Prior de
Cartmel.
On the other is a magnificent tomb o f a Harrington and his lady,
both
both lie recumbent beneath a fine carved and open work arch,
decorated with variety of fuperftitious figures ; and on the furbafe
are grotefque forms of chaunting monks. He lies with his legs
acrofs, a fign that he had obtained that privilege by the merits of a
pilgrimage to the Holyland, or a Crufade. He is faid to have been one
of the Harringtons of Wrajholm tower, his lady a Huddlejlon of
Milium Caftle. It is probably the effigies of Sir John de Harrington,
who in 1305,' was fummoned by Edw. I. with numbers o f other
crallant gentlemen, to meet him at Carlijle, and attend him on his
expedition into Scotland-, and was then knighted along with Prince
Edward, with bathing, and other facred ceremonies *.
The monument erected by Chrijlopher Rawlinfon, of Carkhall, in
Cartmel, deferves mention, being in memory of his grandfather,
father, and mother. The laft a Monk, defcended from a Tho. Monk
of Devonjhire, by Frances Plantagenet, daughter and coheir o f Arthur
Vifcount Lijle, fon of Edw. IV. and this Chrijlopher dying
without ilfue was the laft male by the mother’s fide o f that great
line.
In a fide chapel is the burial place of the Lowthers -, among other
monuments is a neat but fmall one of the late Sir William.
Pafs through fome fields, a ftrange mixture of pafture, rock and
fmall groves. Defcend a hill to Holker, once the feat o f the family
of the Prejlons, fince the property o f the Lowthers, and lately that of
Lord George Cavendijh: a large irregular houfe, feated in a pretty
park, well wooded; and on the fide o f the houfe is a range of
low rocky hills, direfting the eye to an immenfe chain o f lofty
mountains.
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H o lk e r .
9 Dugdah's Baronage, II. 99.
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