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SOME OF THE OLD FAMILIES IN THE PARISH 

 OF CROSTHWAITE. 



By J. FISHER CROSTHWAITE, F.S.A. 



( Read at Keswick, March i6th, 1885.^ 



Having given in two former papers the best account I could of 

 the Derwentwater family, and of the Radcliffes, the first of whom 

 Sir Nicholas Radcliffe, married Elizabeth, sole heiress of Sir John 

 de Derwentwater, in the reign of Henry V., A.D. 141 7 ; and also 

 of another notable family of the name of Bankes, in which I gave 

 all the particulars I could gather of Sir John Bankes, whose Charity 

 still keeps his name in memory, — I shall in the present paper 

 confine my remarks to a few of the Notable Yeoman Families of 

 the ancient parish of Crosthwaite. 



Since the extinction of the House of Derwentwater, the records 

 of that family, with the documents relating to the early history of 

 the ancient manor, are gone. I am therefore obliged to take up 

 such fragments of history as I have been able to collect from 

 various sources, and put them together as well as I could. I have 

 had but little spare time of late, and must therefore bespeak your 

 indulgence for the hurried manner in which this effort has been 

 made. 



There can be no doubt that the yeomen of Borrowdale and of 

 Castlerigg and Derwentwater are many of them occupying, and 

 some are still owning, the self-same lands as their ancestors did 

 before the Norman Conquest. There are other notable families 

 besides those I am going to mention — such as the Leathes of 



