Derwentwatera to the Abbey of Furness. On the dissolution of the 

 Monasteries it fell to King Henry VIII. and remained in the possession 

 of the Crown tUl the 10th year of King James I. about the 

 year A.D. 1613. While it was vested in King Henry the VIII. 

 John Fyssher and Lancelot his son were bailiffs of the King and in the 

 33rd year of his reign they rendered an account headed — "Furness 

 Monastery — Ministers Accounts. — Borrowdale in the County of Cumber- 

 land." They answer for rents paid, amounting to £29 14s. These rents 

 were paid as follows : — viz., by John Hynde, 8s. ; Robert Udale, 5s. ; 

 John Lambert, 5s. ; Nicholas Fisher, 8s. 6d. ; Thomas Fysher, 8s. 6d. ; 

 John Fysher, for Rygge, 15s. ; the widow of John Fisher, 15s. ; the 

 widow of Edward Fysher, 15s., and similar sums were paid by Oliver 

 Fisher, Hugh Harrey, Christopher Harrey, John Fyssher and Lancelot 

 his son, Hugh Youdale, John Udale, Gwydone Byrkehead, Miles Byrkehed, 

 John Byrkhed and his son John. The widow of Wm. Burkehead, 

 Nicholas Birkehead, Hugh Richardson, Christopher Byrkhed, John Brath- 

 wayte, Thomas Dyconson, John Jobson, Hugh Brathwayte and Robert 

 and John Brathwayte. 



King James sold the manor of Borrowdale to William Whitmore, 

 and Jonas Verdon, gentlemen, both of London, in 1613, and two years later 

 they sold it to Sir Wilfred Lawson, of Isel, knight ; Johii Lamplugh, 

 gentleman, John Braithwaite, Robert Braithwaite, John Jopson the 

 younger, Nicholas Dickinson, Thomas Birkhead, of Seathwaite, yeomen ; 

 Charles Hudson, of Boutherbeck, gentleman; WiUiam Braithwaite, John 

 Fisher the younger, John Jopson, Thomas Fisher, John and Robert 

 Birket, Anthony Braithwaite and Christopher Vickars, of Seatoller; Daniel 

 Heckstetter, of Rosthwaite, gentleman ; John Birket, of Thorneythwaite; 

 Janet Richardson, of Longthwaite ; John Youdale and Nicholas Birket, of 

 The Chapel ; Edward, John, Christopher and Thomas Birket, all of Rosth- 

 waite; Hugh Fisher and Gawen Harris, John Wood, of Skairness; John 

 Fisher, of Grange ; John Banks, of Stanger ; John Fisher and Timothy 

 Fisher, of Hollows; John Lambert and Richard Hyne, of Manesty; Wm. 

 Howe, of Newlauds, yeoman ; Wm. Braithwaite, of High House, and 

 Christopher Braithwaite, yeoman. It is described in a document com- 



