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succeeding Providence, for none can know what shall come after 

 them; but to invite them to it, that saying in the i6 Psa. v. 5, 6, 

 7, and 8, may be fitly applied : 'The Lord is the Portion of mine 

 Inheritance and of my cup ; thou maintainest my lot. The lines 

 are fallen unto me in pleasant places ; yea, I have a goodly 

 heritage.' 



"About the loth of this March, 1655, while I lay in Appleby 

 Castle, did I cause a great part of Appleby Church to be taken 

 down, it being very ruinous and in Danger of falling of itself; and 

 so I caused a vault to be made in the North East Corner of the 

 Church for myself to be buried in, if it please God. And the 

 repairing of the said Church cost me about some 6 or 7 Hundred 

 Pounds, being finished in the year following. 



"This summer (1658), in the beginning of the Spring, did I 

 cause Bon gate Church, near Appleby, to be pulled down and new 

 built up again at my own charge; and it was wholly finished 

 about the latter end of April, 1659 : for which God be praised. 

 Psa. 116, V. II, 12, 13. 



"And the beginning of this summer (1659), a little before my 

 coming out of Westmorland, did I cause the Church of Ninekirks 

 to be pulled down and new built up again in the same place, 

 larger and bigger than it was before, which finished the latter end 

 of this summer, though myself and my family were then at my 

 castle in Skipton in Craven. And this Church of Ninekirk would 

 in all likelihood have fallen down, it was so ruinous, if it had not 

 been repaired by me. Psa. 116. 



"And about the said 4 August, 1659, was there a Garrison of foot 

 soldiers put into Appleby Castle, into the great Tower there called 

 Ceaser's Tower, which I lately repaired. They went away, and 

 after they were gone others came in their room, but stayed not 

 long ; as likewise into Brougham Castle for a while ; both of which 

 Castles these soldiers not long after quitted, and went away. 

 Deut. c. 25, v. 5. 



"And the 25th day of April, 1660, this year a new Parliament 

 began to sit at Westminster, wherein were chosen, most part by 

 my means, Knights of the shire of Westmorland, my two Cousins, 



