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RENTS OF THE RICHMOND FEE. 
In the Richmond Fee customary and dry rents were payable 
by— 
sas 
Grasmere - - - - - eee et ae 
Langdale - - - - - - 9.12 §t 
Loughrigg - - - - . - a 16° 5 
Ambleside - - - - - - 2617 0 
Undermillbeck - - - : -\\ AS Sige 
Troutbeck - - : - - ee ae 
Applethwaite - - - - 24 10 I0f 
Fishery and Ferry of wiidernere - - 6-0" "6 
Crosthwaite and Lyth~ - . - -* 59 «ae 
New Hutton - - - - - - 10 9g gf 
Casterton - - = SEZ) 3Que 
Strickland Ketel and Fielsington - - 3. T0"Te 
Thornton, Westhouse, and Masinghill =. £214 ;10 
Amounting in the whole to Alyi 4 10} 
From this it will be seen that in Grasmere and Langdale there are 
lands held of both the Marquis and Richmond Fees, and this 
accounts for a discovery which a brother chip of mine mentioned 
to me the other day as having somewhat surprised him, namely, 
that in examining some deeds, he found there is land in Easdale, 
Grasmere, held of the Marquis Fee. I must now direct your 
attention to 
THE MANOR OF HAWKSHEAD, 
The first settled population of High and Low Furness appear 
to have been Anglo-Saxons. In the Doomsday Book, High 
Furness is called Hougun; and, when this survey was made, the 
lordship or liberty of Furness was in the hands of the Crown, 
Roger de Poictou, to whom it was given not long after the 
Conquest, having forfeited it by reason of some treasonable or 
disloyal act. It was subsequently granted to Stephen, Earl of 
Boulogne, and afterwards King of England, by whom it (with the 
exception of the lands of Michael le Fleming) was given and 
granted for the purpose of founding the Monastery of Furness. 
The charter by which this grant was made is dated in the year 
