A HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND 



visitation. The venerable dean, Lancelot Salkeld, the last prior of the 

 old foundation, who had passed through all the vicissitudes of this 

 eventful period, appeared personally and subscribed isoluntarie et bono 

 animo to the articles of the received religion (suscepte religionis). Then 

 the commissioners charged him on oath to make a return to the articles 

 of inquiry on the morrow at noon. The four prebendaries also volun- 

 tarily and willingly subscribed. Seven out of the eight minor canons 

 appeared and did likewise. The other minor canon was detained in the 

 country by reason of bad health. The commissioners found little to 

 complain of in the internal affairs of the capitular body. The only 

 presentations recorded among the detectiones et comperta of the visitation 

 were 'that the Dean, Edward Mytchell and Richard Brandlynge, preb- 

 endaries ther, have not byn resident as often as they oughte, nether 

 have theye kepte their quarter sermones accordyng to the statutes. Item, 

 Hugh Sewell, prebendary ther, hath not byn so often resydent as he 

 oughte. Item, Barnabye Kyrkebride hath not byn resident nether kepte 

 his quarter sermones as he oughte to have don.' The success of the 

 visitors in reconciling the dean and chapter to the Prayer Book was a 

 good omen for the rest of the diocese. On the following day, 4 October, 

 the visitors sat in the choir of the cathedral to which the clergy and 

 people of the deaneries of Carlisle and Allerdale were summoned. All 

 the clergy who did not appear were pronounced contumacious. The 

 visitation was continued on Friday in the parish church of Penrith, for 

 the deaneries of Cumberland and Westmorland. During this session 

 the commissioners ordered the fruits, tithes and other emoluments of 

 the rectory of Marton (Longmarton) which William Burye, clerk, then 

 possessed, to be sequestrated, and committed the power of sequestration 

 to John Dudeley, gentleman. 1 Nearly a third of the parish clergy 

 of the diocese absented themselves from the visitation, and were pro- 

 nounced contumacious. 



By one of the provisions of the letters patent directing the visita- 

 tion, the commissioners were authorized to restore incumbents who were 

 unlawfully deprived during the late reign. Only two cases of restitution 

 to benefices were made by the visitors in the diocese of Carlisle. In the 

 case of the benefice of Ormside (Ormysyde), moved by Thomas Atkynson, 

 rector, against Percival Yates, the commissioners at their session in 

 Penrith on 6 October 1559, adjudged the benefice to Atkinson, and 

 decreed that Yates should be removed from the same. But Atkinson 

 did not enjoy his recovered rectory long, for we read soon after that the 

 church of ' Ormysshed' had been vacant for a whole year by the resigna- 



sub-sections of this record have been used for the account of the royal visitation of the diocese of Carlisle, 

 it has not been thought necessary to indicate the folio for each statement. The arrangement of the 

 manuscript makes it easy to consult. Strype made use of this book, for he says : ' This commission I saw 

 in the Queen's Paper House bound up in a volume in folio, containing all the inquisitions and matters 

 done and found in this large Northern visitation ' (Annals, ed. 1709, i. 167). 



1 Bury was not deprived, for he died rector of Longmarton ; and was succeeded by Mr. George 

 Bury, M.A., on 17 April 1562, on the presentation of Henry, Earl of Cumberland (Carl. Epis. Reg., 

 Best, MS. f. 5). 



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