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time prevented it. Richard Hutton, as we have seen, died three 
years before the re-building of the church commenced, leaving his 
heir Addison Hutton, a boy in his teens; and it looks as if no one 
was found to care sufficient about the monuments to restore them, 
and that they remained neglected and uncared for at Hutton Hall 
until it was sold to Mr. Gasgarth, when the monuments were 
destroyed or carried away. That it was the intention of the church 
builders to provide for their restoration to the church appears from 
the fact that the east end of the south aisle corresponding to the 
old St. Andrew’s Choir, was left vacant, and continued so until the 
church was re-seated about twenty-five years ago, when it was 
utilised as a vestry. In the floor of this space there is a large slab 
of blue stone bearing just sufficient traces of an inscription to 
identify it with the slab described by Nicholson and Burn, as the 
monument of Mr. Richard Hutton and his daughter Barbara, of 
whom we have just been hearing. This slab is now covered with 
the wood floor of the vestry, but if exposed, would be unin- 
telligible. The inscription, originally, very slightly incised, is all 
but worn away by being walked upon. It would be a graceful act 
to place a brass plate upon the wall containing the original inscrip- 
tion, as recorded by Nicolson and Burn. The lost Hutton effigies 
have lately been found at Nunwick Hall, lying in an open yard 
exposed to weather and injury, and being only of plaster of Paris 
(as Nicolson and Burn say they were), are sadly mutilated ; they 
have been removed to Great Salkeld churchyard, where, of course, 
they have no right to remain, Penrith Church being their proper 
home. 
WILLIAM ROBINSON. 
The mystery attached to William Robinson, the seventeenth 
century benefactor of Penrith, referred to in my former paper, has 
now been cleared up. Hitherto he has only been known through 
his public benefaction to Penrith, an extract from his will relating 
thereto being all the documentary information known. The 
benefaction to Penrith, consisting of £55 a year for religious, 
charitable, and educational purposes, is in the hands of the 
