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Western Marches against the Scots, and that this service was no 
sinecure we may rest assured, for in the old ballad of “ Flodden 
Field” we read :— 
Most lively lads in Lonsdale bred, 
With weapons of unwieldy weight, 
All such as Tatham Fells had bred, 
Went under Stanley’s streamers bright. 
From Silverdale to Kent sand side, 
Whose soil is sown with cockle shells ; 
From Cartmel eke and Connyside, 
With fellows fierce from Furness Fells. 
SUCCESSION FINES. 
There were other customs which have gradually died out, and, 
as a reference to them would extend my paper beyond its proper 
limit, I proceed to those which are more important, by reason of 
their being in force and governing the holdings of the tenants at 
the present time. And first as regards descent. In the Marquis 
and Richmond fees, the property descends, on the death of a 
tenant, to the eldest son; and, if only daughters survive, then to 
the eldest of them. ‘This is not precisely the same in the Manor 
of Hawkshead, for, though the tenement descends to the eldest 
son, if there is one, should there be only daughters, it does not go 
necessarily to the eldest amongst the daughters, but the eldest 
unmarried daughter takes the whole, paying to her younger sister, 
if only one, twenty years’ ancient rent: if more than one, forty 
years’ ancient rent to be equally divided amongst them. In the 
Manors of the Marquis and Richmond fees, you are not allowed 
by the custom to entail property. Therefore, if one leaves his 
property to his son and the heirs male or female of his body, the 
property will go to the son absolutely, the entail being disregarded. 
But this is not the case in Hawkshead. In many manors, the lord 
upon the death of a tenant is entitled to what is called a “ heriot,” 
which consists of the best chattel the tenant is possessed of at the 
time of his death, be it horse, ox, calf, or pig. Of the manors we 
are now considering, in that of Hawkshead there is no heriot 
payable. But in the Marquis and Richmond fees, the lord is 
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