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sisted of Stockhouse (or more properly, Storkhouse), Wanthwaite, 

 Walk Mill, Crook, and Little Ings. It passed to Mr. Daniel San- 

 derson, and after him to his younger brother, John Sanderson, who 

 afterwards sold it to the late Mr. Abraham Fisher, whose executors 

 sold Wanthwaite to Mr. Henry White of London, whose fore-elders 

 sprang from the same valley of St. John's. 



This is one instance showing how far back most of the yeomen 

 families might be able to trace the possession of their holding, if 

 they only had a friend like Mr. WilHam Jackson, F.S.A., to go 

 into the records held by lords of manors like those of the ancient 

 family of Curwen. 



The name of Fisher is of great antiquity. 



In the ministers' accounts, 33 Henry VIII. (1542) for the 

 Furness monastery, we have the names of all the holders and of the 

 payments made by the freeholders of Borrowdale for the dues 

 payable to the church, which at that time were paid to Henry VIII. 

 and continued to be so paid till in 16 15, when the dalesmen paid 

 for the enfranchisement of their estates the sum of twenty-five 

 pounds, two shillings. 



I see that in a paper which I read before this Society on " Old 

 Borrowdale," 2nd June, 1875, I gave the names and amounts paid 

 by each tenant (in 1542) to John Fyssher and Launcelot his son, 

 who were " Bailiffs of the Lord the King there for the time afore- 

 said." There were eight Fyshers, six Burkheads, three Brathwaytes, 

 three Udales, one Lambert, one Hynde, two Harveys, Hugh Rich- 

 ardson, and John Jobson. 



In the great deed of Borrowdale executed 1613, (seventy-one 

 years later,) we still have the same names, with the addition of 

 Lamplugh, Hudson, Banks, Howe, and Sir Wilfrid Lawson of 

 Isel, as amongst those who bought their property free. 



The fortunes of the dalesmen have been increased from time to 

 time by second and younger sons going out and succeeding in 

 business in the metropolis. In the year 1788, Isaac Fisher, son 

 of Mr. Joseph Fisher of Seatoller, was apprenticed to a silversmith 

 in London, and the witness to his indentures was William Birkett, 

 a banker's clerk, who went from Borrowdale ; who was the person 



