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period, rather than to that of a century earlier. His wife was 

 Maud Beauchamp, who survived him many years, Hving at Brougham 

 Castle as her jointure house, which the record says she greatly 

 enlarged and repaired, and made there "Maud's Pool." I do not 

 know whether any reminiscence of the name of "Maud's Pool" 

 remains in the popular folk-lore, but the pool itself is to my eye 

 quite apparent on the west side of the castle. It was, I think, an 

 artificial canal from the river Lowther, above the confluence of the 

 riverS; to the Eamont on the north side of the castle. The canal 

 was widened out in the middle of its length with an island left in 

 the centre. It would be quite a pretty piece of landscape- 

 gardening, and not for purposes of defence. 



The wise and prudent Roger, like many other good fathers, had 

 a hair-brained, wild eldest son. His name was Thomas, and for 

 some undefined reason he was banished by the Parliament from 

 the Court, and prohibited from serving the king. So by way of 

 working off his superfluous energies, he joined some sort of French 

 crusade against the then barbarous tribes of Germany, where he 

 was slain in the year 1393, in his twenty-eighth year. He survived 

 his good father only two years, and he left a son John, three years 

 of age, who, in due time, married and got killed, as was usual with 

 the race. His wife was Elizabeth Percy, daughter of Hotspur. 

 John fell in the French war, when he was thirty-four years old, 

 leaving a son Thomas, seven years of age. His widow married 

 Ralph Neville, son of Ralph Neville of Raby Castle, and lord of 

 Penrith manor. 



The words of the record about this lady are noteworthy : it says, 

 "This Elizabeth Percy was one of the greatest women of her time, 

 both for her birth and her marriages ; but the misfortunes of the 

 wars so followed her, that in her time her grandfather, the Earl of 

 Northumberland, was beheaded, and his son, her father, slain in 

 battle; her first husband slain in France; and, after her decease, 

 was her son Thomas, Lord Clifford, and her son John, Lord 

 Neville, and her grandson John, Lord Clifford, all slain in battle." 

 Elizabeth was buried in Staindrop Church, near Raby Castle. 



The young Clifford, Thomas, son of John by his wife 



