Transactions of the Cumberland
Transactions of the Cumberland
Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archeological Society Volume 8 by Cumberland And Westmorland Society
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Author: Cumberland And Westmorland Society
Page Count: 122 pages
Published Date: 01 Mar 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
Type: Pdf
ISBN: 9781130383393
File size: 46 Mb
File Name: Transactions.of.the.Cumberland.&.Westmorland.Antiquarian.&.Archeological.Society.Volume.8.pdf
Download Link: Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archeological Society Volume 8
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...held in such esteem by the London citizen and apprentice; a new fashion and new colour perhaps had arisen; and smoother Rate and Valuation books. textures caught the fancy of the purchaser. Then to that languishing London trade the death-blow was probably struck by the plague, which appeared in our valleys in 1577. The first outbreak lasted over a year. A second came in 1597 and 1598, which was more severely felt in the towns, 2,500 people being carried off in Kendal alone. It is impossible, from the ill-kept registers of Grasmere, where whole months and even years are found wanting in the plague period, to arrive at any reliable conclusion as to the reduction of the population in the parish; but when we find twelve burials entered in November, 1578, and again (December being blank) ten for the following January, it is clear that this was considerable, f Indeed, the tradition of the plague remains to this day in Langdale (where it seems to have raged the worst) strong and fixed. Several versions of the story of its introduction are told, and a little mound overgrown with trees is pointed out where a cottage once stood, whose inmates sickened and died, and were left till the walls fell in ruins upon them. Such a tale implies great callousness and fright on the part of the neighbours, or else a visitation of such severity that the few who remained sound were unequal to cope with it. The Langdale folk indeed found themselves unable to carry the dead of the valley to the consecrated earth of their church at Grasmere; for a little plot of ground under bleak Lingmoor, ringed round with broken walls, and overgrown with alien laurels, is shown as the place where these were buried. It was perhaps here that the Hawkshead man was laid, about whom there is so strange a...
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Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archeological Society Volume 8 by Cumberland And Westmorland Society
Author: Cumberland And Westmorland Society
Page Count: 122 pages
Published Date: 01 Mar 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
Type: Pdf
ISBN: 9781130383393
File size: 46 Mb
File Name: Transactions.of.the.Cumberland.&.Westmorland.Antiquarian.&.Archeological.Society.Volume.8.pdf
Download Link: Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archeological Society Volume 8
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...held in such esteem by the London citizen and apprentice; a new fashion and new colour perhaps had arisen; and smoother Rate and Valuation books. textures caught the fancy of the purchaser. Then to that languishing London trade the death-blow was probably struck by the plague, which appeared in our valleys in 1577. The first outbreak lasted over a year. A second came in 1597 and 1598, which was more severely felt in the towns, 2,500 people being carried off in Kendal alone. It is impossible, from the ill-kept registers of Grasmere, where whole months and even years are found wanting in the plague period, to arrive at any reliable conclusion as to the reduction of the population in the parish; but when we find twelve burials entered in November, 1578, and again (December being blank) ten for the following January, it is clear that this was considerable, f Indeed, the tradition of the plague remains to this day in Langdale (where it seems to have raged the worst) strong and fixed. Several versions of the story of its introduction are told, and a little mound overgrown with trees is pointed out where a cottage once stood, whose inmates sickened and died, and were left till the walls fell in ruins upon them. Such a tale implies great callousness and fright on the part of the neighbours, or else a visitation of such severity that the few who remained sound were unequal to cope with it. The Langdale folk indeed found themselves unable to carry the dead of the valley to the consecrated earth of their church at Grasmere; for a little plot of ground under bleak Lingmoor, ringed round with broken walls, and overgrown with alien laurels, is shown as the place where these were buried. It was perhaps here that the Hawkshead man was laid, about whom there is so strange a...
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