KEN 
the Foot is an efcutcheon furrounded with the garter, 
bearing Rofs and Parr, quarterly, quartering the other 
two before-mentioned ; but cannot fay whether this is lord 
T’arr of Kendal, queen Catharine’s father, or her brother 
the marquis of Northampton ; perhaps it is a cenotaph 
for the latter, who was buried at Warwick, 1571. The 
following epitaph compofed for himfelf, by Mr. Ralph Ty- 
rer, vicar of Kendal, who died 1627, and placed in the 
choir, may be worth the reader’s perufal on account of 
its quaintnefs: 
London bred mee,—Weftminfter fed mee, 
Cambridge fped mee,—My fitter wed mee, 
Study taught mee,—Living fought mee. 
Learning brought mee,—Kendal caught mee. 
Labour preiTed mee,—Sicknefs diftrelled mee, 
Death opprefled mee,—The grave potfetTeu mee, 
God firft gave mee,— Chrift did fave mee, 
Earth did crave mee,—And heaven would have mee. 
The remains of the caltle are feated on a fine hill on the 
river, oppofite to the town ; almoft the whole of the in- 
clofure-wall remains, with four towers, two fquare and 
two round, but their upper parts and embattlements are 
demoiilhed. It is of rough (tone and cement, without any 
ornament or arms round ; inclofing a court of like form, 
and furrounded by a moat; nor could it ever have been 
larger than it is, for there are no traces of out-works. 
There is a good view of the town and river, with a fertile 
open valley, through which it winds. If the traveller af- 
cends from the end of Stramon-gate-bridge to the caftle, 
which was the only way to it when it was in its glory, 
and is the eafieft at prefent, lie will obferve a fquare area 
that had been fortified by a deep moat, and .conneded to 
the caftle by a draw-bridge, where was probably the back 
court: the ftones are entirely removed, and the ground le¬ 
velled, “and laughing Ceres re-affumes the land.” The 
prefent ftrufture was undoubtedly railed by the firft ba¬ 
rons of Kendal, and probably on the ruins of a Roman 
Ration, this being the moft eligible fite in the county for 
a fuminer encampment; and, at a fmall diftance from Wa¬ 
ter-crook, there are ftili fome remains of a dark-red free- 
llone, ufed in facings, and in the doors and windows, that 
have been brought from the environs of Penrith-moor, 
more probably by the Romans than by either the Saxon 
or Norman lords. 
About a mile from Kendal on the right, clofe by the Ken, 
is Water-crook, where was the Concangium of the Romans : 
here a body of the vigilators (or watchmen) kept guard, as 
this was the intermediate ltation between the ditclies at 
Amblefide and the garrifon at Overborough. The line of 
the fofs may be ftili traced, though much defaced by the 
plough. Altars, coins, and infcribed ftones, have been 
found here ; and in the wall of the barn,on the very area of 
the ftation, is ftili legible the infcription preferved by Mr. 
Horlley to the memory of two freemen, with an impre¬ 
cation againftany one who fhould contaminate their fepul- 
chre, and a fine to the fil'cal. There is alfo an altar with¬ 
out any infcription, and a Siienus without a head. At a 
fmall diftance is a pyramidal knoll, crowned with a fingie 
tree, called Satury ; where probably fomething dedicated 
to the god Saturn has ftood. 
To the fouth-eaft is the village of Natland : on the creft 
of a green hill, called Helm, are the veitiges of a caitellum, 
called Caftle-fteads, by which the refidence of the watch¬ 
men at Water-crook correfponded (by fmoke in the day 
and flame in the night) with the garrifon at Lancafter. 
Near the beacon on Wanton-crag, there is a houfe at a 
diftance to the north called Watch-houfe, where Roman 
Coins have been found. ,At Natland, an old chapel was 
rebuilt in 1731- Here a floor fixteen inches deep has been 
difcovered, with refervoirs, See. with an area one hundred 
and forty yards fquare, with many foundations and vacui¬ 
ties like ovens. 
Still keeping along by the eaft fide of the river, you 
some to Levan’s Park, one of the fweeteft fpots that fancy 
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imagine: the woods, the rocks, the river, the grounds, 
are rivals in beauty of ftyle arid variety of,contrail; the 
bends of the river, the bulging of the rocks over it, un¬ 
der which in fome places it retires in hafte, and again 
breaks out in a calm and fpreading dream, are matchlefs 
beauties. The ground in fome places is bold, and hangs 
abruptly over the river, or falls into gentle dopes and eafy 
plains ; all is variety with pleading tranfiiions. Thickets 
cover the brows; ancient thorns, and more ancient oaks, 
are fcattered over the plains ; and clumps of folitary 
beech-trees of enormous fize equal, if not furpafs, any 
thing the Chiltern-hills can boaft. The park is well 
flocked with fallow-deer. The fide of the Ken is fa¬ 
mous for petrifying fprings, that incruft vegetable bodies, 
as mol's, leaves of trees. Sec. Levan’s Hall was the feat of 
a family of that name for many ages ; then of Redman for ■ 
feveral defeents ; afterwards it came to the Bellinghams, 
and Adam, or his fon James, gave it the prefent form in 
the reign of queen Elizabeth, and in talte of carving-in 
wood attempted to outdo his cotemporary, Walter Strick¬ 
land, efq. of Sizergh. After Bellingham it came to colonel 
Graham, and, from his daughter by marriage, to the an- 
ceftor of the late noble polfelfor the earl of Suffolk. The 
gardens belonging to this feat are rather curious in the old 
ftyle, and faid to have been planned by the gardener of 
James II. who refided here with colonel Graham during 
lome part of the troubles of his royal mailer. Sizergh 
Hall is a venerable old manfion in a plealant fituation, 
formed, like the reft in ancient times, fora place of de¬ 
fence. The tower is a fquare building, defended by two 
fquare turrets and battlements ; one of them is,over the 
great entrance, and has a guard-room capable of contain¬ 
ing ten or a dozen men, with embrafures ; the winding 
Hair-cafe terminates in a turret, which defends the other 
entrance. At Levan’s Bridge you have a new view of the 
valley, and the eaft fide of the Ken. At the park-gate 
there is a charming view of Sizergh, Ihowing itfelf to the 
morning fun, and appearing to advantage from an eleva¬ 
ted fite under a bold and wooded back ground. The 
tower was built in the reign of Henry III. or Edward I. 
by fir William Strickland, who had married Elizabeth, the 
general heirefs of Ralph d'Aincourt. This is evident 
from an efcutcheon cut in Hone on the weft lide of the 
tower, and hung cornerwife; d’Aincourt quartering 
Strickland, three fcollop-lhells, the creft on a clofe helmet, 
and a full-topped holly-bulh ; the fame are the arms of the 
family at this time, and this has been their chief refidence 
ever iince. 
Caftle-law-hill is an artificial mount that overlooks the 
town of Kendal, and faces the caftle, and furpafles it in 
antiquity; being one of thofe hills called Laws, where, in 
ancient times, diftributive juftice was adminiftered. A 
handl'ome obelilk was ereded on the top of this hill by 
fubfeription of the inhabitants of Kendal, in 1788 ; which, 
feen from almoft every part of the vale, is a very beauti¬ 
ful object; and, being in the centenary of the revolution 
in 16S8, has the following infcription : 
Sacred to liberty. 
This obelifk was ereded in the year 1788, 
In memory of the revolution in 1688. 
KENDAL-GREE'N, f. A bright green colour.—Three 
milbegotten knaves in Kendal-green came at my back. 
Shakejpeare. 
KEN'DER, a town of Hindooftan, in Sehaurunpour: 
ten miles north of Sehaurunpour. 
KEN'DER, a town of Curdiftan: twenty-eight miles 
fouth-weft of Betlrs. 
KEN'DRICK’s ISLAND forms the weft fide of Nootka 
Sound, into which you may enter from the weft by Maf- 
lachufetts Sound, along the northern lide of the ifiand. 
KEN'DSADAM, a town of Turkeftan, on the Sir ; 
eighty miles north-well of Talhkund. 
KENDUSKE'AG, a river of Americi, which runs into 
the Penobilot at the town of Bangor, about two miles be- 
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