Joun Hastie, VICAR. 
Mr. Hastie commenced his register with a memorandum of his 
induction, thus :—“ Mr. John Hastie, M.A., was inducted Vicar of 
Penrith, April 28th,16o1, in the presence of Mr. Anthony Page, 
steward, and Mr. Thomas Atkinson, and many others.” Close to 
this, and squeezed into the margin, is a note, “ the brewing lead 
was all cut to pieces by the Scots soldiers to make bullets of.” 
This is a little perplexing. If the depredators were really the 
Scottish soldiers in time of war, Mr. Hastie was going a good way 
back in history, but if he referred to the Border thieves of his own 
day, he was really too complimentary in dignifying the miscreants 
with the title of “ soldiers.” 
This Mr. Anthony Page, who witnessed John Hastie’s induction, 
must be the person mentioned in my former paper in connection 
with Sandford’s story of the visit of a strange antiquary, when Mr. 
Page was schoolmaster as well as steward of the Manor, between 
1581 and 1591, It will be remembered that Mr. Page and others 
were invited to sup with the stranger at the Crown, and discuss the 
ancient monuments in the churchyard. Mr. Page was evidently a 
man of importance in Penrith. I have traced him in the registers, 
and find that in 1586, when he was schoolmaster, his marriage is 
thus recorded :—‘‘ 1586, June 12th, Anthony Page and Isabella 
Lancaster were married at Mardell Chapel by Parson Burton.” 
Four of his children, Ann, Grace, Anthony, and Elizabeth, were 
baptized before the year of the plague, and in that terrible year his 
son Edmund was born, and his wife and son Anthony carried off 
with the plague. Mr. Page’s burial is registered in 1623. Mr. 
John Hastie was a native of Catterlen, and from his time to the 
end of the last century, the name of Hastie frequently occurs in 
the Penrith registers. Mr. Hastie’s wife died in 1607, after which 
he married Grace Page, the daughter of Mr. Anthony Page, she 
then being eighteen years of age. During John Hastie’s time 
Penrith Vicarage saw eighteen births and eight deaths, 
