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No gentle knighte, nor lady gay, 
May pass that castle-walle : 
But from that foule discourteous knighte 
Mishappe will them befall. 
Hee’s twyce the size of common men, 
Wi’ thewes and sinewes stronge, 
And on his back he bears a clubbe, 
That is both thicke and longe. 
Tarn Wadling was drained in 1858 at the instance of Lord 
Lonsdale ; and what was once a place of attraction to shooters of 
wild fowl, anglers for carp, and gatherers of cranberries, is now a 
broad expanse of cultivated ground. 
Of the ancient trees near Hesket, there stands the “'Thorn of 
Ransom,” or Court Thorn, on the stone beneath whose branches 
annually, on the feast of St. Barnabas (June 11th), have assembled 
for unnumbered years the tenants of upwards of twenty manors, 
from whom a jury was impannelled and sworn, of which Dr. Hugh 
Todd says, the Chamberlain of Carlisle anciently was foreman. 
Here were paid the annual dues to the Bow Bearer of Inglewood 
Forest. 
Mr. T. Denton, writing in 1688, says that the townships of the 
north and the west parts of the Forest meet in the morning, the 
Chamberlain of Carlisle being foreman of their jury; the townships 
of the south and the east parts in the afternoon, the Bailiff of 
Penrith being foreman. He describes the courts as being like the 
Swain-Mote courts used in other forests. 
In Castle Sowerby there is a lofty hill called Castle Hill, 
which is part of one of the ten principal estates in the parish 
formerly called Red Spears. The owners of these lands did their 
_ singular service of riding through the town of Penrith on Whit- 
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Tuesday, brandishing their spears. The spears were about nine 
feet in length, and until within this century some of them remained 
in the proprietors’ houses, where they were usually deposited. 
_ These Red Spears were sureties to the Sheriff for the peaceable 
_ behaviour of the rest of the inhabitants. The ancient owners of 
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the estate now particularly noted, annually served as jurors at the 
_ Forest Court, by which they were exempted from all parish offices. 
