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Crosthwaite in 1616, it is mentioned that the Company of the 

 Mines Royal gave twenty pounds, and Radigunda Hechstetter 

 forty shillings, for the increase of the school stock, and delivered 

 the same to Master Daniel Hechstetter, and Emanuel Hechstetter, 

 now deceased (whose executor Joseph Hechstetter is), to be paid 

 to the eighteen sworn men. 



On the 8th of September, 1623, one Daniel Hechstetter got a 

 lease for five lives, of the " Heads," a croft of ground, being by 

 estimation twelve acres, for himself and for the lives of Samuel 

 Hechstetter, Jonathan Hechstetter, and Radigunda Hechstetter, 

 all of Keswick, and the longest liver of them, for twenty shillings 

 a year. There is a house in Keswick, next to Captain Jackson's, 

 near the bridge, which has thick walls, and is wainscotted with 

 beautifully carved oak, and has initials D. H., a shield, and other 

 initials I. H., which I take to be Daniel and Jane Hechstetter. 

 His wife's maiden name was Jane Bankes, of Keswick, and this 

 property passed down to the present owner from one William 

 Bankes, an opulent manufacturer. 



One of the family became master of the Grammar School at 

 Carlisle. He was M.A. of Queen's College, Oxford, and rector of 

 Bolton, Cumberland, from 1665 to 1686.* Probably he was the 

 son of Joseph Hechstetter, of Smelting House, Keswick, who 

 married first Joyce Bankes, daughter of John Bankes of Keswick, 

 and only sister of Sir John Bankes, Chief Justice of the Common 

 Pleas in the reign of Charles I., and the founder of Bankes's 

 Charity in this town. 



The works were carried on by the side of the river Greta, as 

 well as at Newlands, there being smelting houses at both places.! 

 The works by the Greta river extended from Calvert's bridge toj 

 the Hammer Hole, above the Forge. This is a mill race, a partj 

 of which is cut through the solid rock, and forms a tunnel. It has 

 been cut with wedges and pick hammers, in the same manner as 

 the levels were driven in the mines at Newlands. This mill race 

 carried the machinery used in smelting, hammering copper plates 

 and sawing wood, etc. 



* Antiq. vol, vii, p. 231. 



