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then goes on to say: ‘They went to the church; and on the 
north side ther is 2 crosses distant the lenth of a man, one at head 
and other at feet. And was opened when I was a scholler there 
by William Turner, and there found the great long shank bones 
and other bones of a man, and a broad sword besides, fonde there 
by the church wardens.” 
In this account it is to be noted that neither the unknown 
antiquarian who introduced the story of the hero of the grave, 
Mr. Page, or Mr. Sandford, say anything about a giant. On the 
contrary, Mr. Page distinctly states that the crosses were the 
length of a man (i.e. an ordinary man) apart. The great long 
shank bone does not, I think, mean more than the long bone of 
the leg above the knee, as distinguished from the shorter one 
below it. Gibson’s edition of Camden’s “ Britannia” (1695) has 
*“* Additions to Cumberland,” written by Dr. Todd four years before 
he became vicar of Penrith, in which the crosses—spoken of as 
pillars—are described as about five yards apart, and the “giant” 
first comes before us thus :—‘“’Tis said they were set in memory 
of one Sir Ewan Ceesarius, knight in old time, a famous warrior of 
great strength and stature, who lived in these parts, and killed wild 
boars in the forest of Englewood, which much infested the country. 
He was buried here, they say, and was of such prodigious stature 
as to reach from one pillar to the other; and they tell you that 
the rude figures of boars, which were done in stone and erected 
two on each side between the pillars, are in memory of his great 
exploits upon these creatures. Thus it appears that between 1591, 
when the unknown antiquarian visited the monuments, and 1695, 
when Dr. Todd wrote about them, the grave had grown from the 
length of a man to that of a giant. 
THE GIANT’S THUMB. 
Or the ancient mutilated cross known as “ The Giant’s Thumb,” I 
have spoken in a former paper (Zvansactions, No. XIII. p. 1), and 
will only here add, that it has occurred to me, that the origin of 
its popular designation may have been in the resemblance which 
the mutilated cross, when standing only part of its height out of 
