SHEEP i8i 



Year and Day runs from the first Proclamation, not from the seizure." 



In this book persons were named whose duty it was to see that 

 all strayed sheep were gathered on two specified days each year on 

 their respective commons. The Guide contained 411 entries. 



In 1827 a Guide was issued of the " Wool and Ear Marks " of 

 the stocks of sheep in Caldbeck, Mosedale, Bowscale, Mungrisedale, 

 Threlkeld, Underskiddaw, Bassenthwaite, Uldale, Ireby, etc. It was 

 published at Penrith and re-issued in 1848, and again in 1869 when 

 it was published at Keswick. The meetings in this district are 

 " annually and alternately held at Caldbeck, Mungrisedale, Threlkeld, 

 Bassenthwaite and Uldale, on the first Monday in December, and 

 at Skiddaw House on the last Monday in July." 



In 1839 James Brown, of Penrith, published what purported 

 to be a second edition of Joseph Walker's first Guide issued 22 years 

 previously. It was compiled by William Kirkpatrick, of Howtown ; 

 Richard Mounsey, son of the previous Mounsey ; and J. Mattinson, 

 a nephew of Joseph Walker. 



In 1849 Wm. Hodgson, of Corney, Cumberland, compiled a 

 Guide for the West, it was published at Ulverston and contained 

 some 1000 names. It represented 38 parishes or townships in Cumber- 

 land, 13 in North Lonsdale, and the following in Westmorland : — 

 Applethwaite, Ambleside and Rydal, Askham and Helton, Barton, 

 Bampton, Birbeck Fells, Crosby Ravensworth, Grasmere, Kentmere, 

 Langdale, Loughrigg, Longsleddale, Martindale, Measand and Mardale; 

 Patterdale, Rosgill, Shap, Swindale and Wet Sleddale, and Troutbeck. 



In 1863 the East and South Fells united and issued a joint Guide, 

 separately printed, diversely illustrated, but bound together. Then, 

 in 1873, the East, South and North Fells Associations all united and 

 published a single Guide, it was brought up to date and re-issued in 

 1885, 1896 and 1907. The parishes or townships in Westmorland 

 at the time of the amalgamation in the East Fells Association were : 

 Bongate, Dufton, Longmarton, Milburn, and Brougham ; in the 

 South Fells Association : Ravenstonedale, Brough, Warcop, Orton, 

 Tebay and Roundthwaite, Kendal and Shap, Birbeck Fells, Brether- 

 dale, Kirkby Stephen, Crosby Garrett and Little Asby. There were 

 no Westmorland parishes included in the North Fells Association. 

 Up to 1896 each member attending an Exchange had to pay one 



