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kerifopp, eaft and weft Caen-wood, Toufe-Bank wood, the Hoping hills 

 of Knarfdale, and the mountain of Crofs-fell y to the fouth. It is 

 within the manour of 



Btenkenfopp-CaJlle, the feat of the antient family of the Blenken~ 



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fopps ; of Ralph de Blenkenfopp, I K. Ed-ward I () ; of Thomas de 

 Blenkenfopp, 39, 42. K. Edward III f// ; and of William Blenkenfopp, 

 10 (^Elizabeth (m) ; who held it of the honour of Langley, pay- 

 ing annually for all fervices 6s. 8d. one half at Martinmas, and 

 the other at Whitfontide. In the fouth-weft end of Haltnvefd church 

 is the ftone-effigies of one of the family, recumbent, in armour, 

 his legs a-crofs, and hands elevated ; the habit and attitude of a 

 Knight Templer, or fuch as made the Crufade ; on which, and for 

 the ranfom of our Czur de Lion, K. Richard I, fo much money 

 was fwept out of the kingdom, that not one genuine coin of his 



(k) Ranaiphus Blenkenfopp tenet Blenkenfopp per dimidium marc, de Baronia de Tynedale. 



Efr*de An", i. Ed. I. 



(!) Thomas de Blenkenfoppte.net villam de Blenkenfopp libere de manerio de Langley^ pro 

 jldelitate, et pro fervicio 6s. 8 d. per annum : et valet per annum in omnibus exhibits, 10 I. 



Inquifit. ex bundello Efcaetr. Turri Londinenft, No. 17. capta apud Nov. Cujlrum fuper 

 Tynam die Veneris proxime poft feftum Sandi Petrl in Cathedra, 39 Edvardi III. coram Wil- 

 lielmo de Ryegate, Efcaetore Dom. Regis in comit. Nortbumbr. 



Thomas de Blettkenfopp tenet manerium de Blenkenfopp) cum pertinen. de manerio 

 pro fidelitate, et pro fervicio redJendi 6s. 8d. per annum, pro omnibus ferviciis ad terminos 

 Pentecoft..et SanH Martini in Hyeme, ad squales portiones.. 



Inquifit. ex bundello Efcaetr. turri Londinens. N. 37. capta apud Langley in comit. 

 Nortbutnbr. Die Jovis in Fefto Sancl. Andrea Apoftoli. 42 Edvardi III. 



(m) Wtllielmtis Blenkenfopp fuit feifitus de et in Blenkenfopp, Glenwhelt, Darles, Hill- 

 houfes, Driburn-haugh, et Wry-tree, cum terris in Haltwefel, et le Oufett. Efcaet. de 

 Anno 10 Eliz. 



