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miners,who came from Derbyfhire, to-carry 
en the wsrk, and to make a farther trial 
for procuring ores In purfuance of this 
agreement, a proper perion was appomt- 
e by the company fo plan and fuperintend 
the operations ; but after feveral unfuc- 
eelsful artempts to recover the vein, and 
the water becoming exceedingly incom- 
motions to the workmen im the mine, 
they were under the neceffity of deffting 
from ther defrgn, — Several trials have 
been alio made, at different times, on Or- 
ton Scar for procuring copper; but no 
qtiantity of that metal. has-ever been ob- 
tained, fufficient to defray the expences of 
the work. There are two quarries where 
blue flate was formerly procured ; but as it 
was only of an inferior quality, they have 
not been wrought for many. years. 
There are no mineral {prings in the pa- 
rith, unlefs a imall rill, called the Gold- 
Afke, maay be fo denominated. ‘This {pring 
conttantly bubbles up fand that refembles 
gold; but which is only fulphbur, and, 
neverthelels, does not impregnate the 
water, 
Turbery, or peats, are commonly ufed 
for tuel, excepting on the north fide of the 
Lune, where the inhabitants are obliged 
to burn coals, which they fetch: from 
the Stanmore-pits, a diftance of about 
twenty miles, and which, including the 
carriage, colt after the rate of thirteen 
fillings per ton, | 
At a place called Langhill, in this pa- 
rifh, was born in 1607, Thomas Barlow, 
D.D. bifhop of Lincoln. Aifter being 
educated at the free grammar-{chool of 
Appleby, in this county, he was removed 
in the fix-eenth year of his age to the uni- 
verfity of Oxford, and entered of Queen's 
College, of which, after the death of the 
earned Dr. Langbuine, he was chofen pro- 
volt. In 1660 he was eletted Margaret’s 
profeffur of divinity ; and in 1675, chiefly 
through the interett and recommendation 
ef Sir Jofeph Williamfon, who was alio 
w native of the north of England, and at 
that time fecretary of ftatc, he was ad- 
vanced to the fee of Lincoln. This pre- 
late was author of feveral works, anid, 
feon after the reftoration of king Charles 
the feeond, publithed THe Cafe of a Toler- 
ation in matters of Religion, addrefled to 
the celebrated Robert Boyle, efq. ‘* Fis 
book and the fentiments it contains,’” lays 
the late Dr. Kippis, ‘¢ reflect, upon the 
the whole, no. {mall honour on Dr. Bar- 
low. Though he limited toleration too 
much, few men, and e(pecially few di- 
vines, would, in thofe days, have gone fo 
far in their conceflions to tender conici- 
~~. ‘ 
Account of the Parifb.of Orton. 
417 
ences as our author. The Prefoyteriang: 
thermielves, though upon the eve of being 
perfecuted, entertained mo fuch rationai, 
views of things. The writer of the Con-- 
feffienal {peaks with fingular rejpect of our 
prelate. He calls him not only a learned, 
but a worthy bifhop ; and having had oc~ 
cafion, a little before, to mention Laud,, 
Bennet, and Sinclair, fays, that he was 
worth three dozen of Lauds, Bernets, or 
Sinclairs*.”” Dr. Barlow died at Bugden,, 
in Huntingdonthire, October 8, 1691, in 
the eighty-fifth year of his age. 
In this parifh alfo was born the late 
John Burn, efq. cniy fon cf the late Dr. 
Burn+, and one of bis Majetty’s jutices of 
the peace for the counties of Weitmorland 
and Cumberland. ‘This gentleman, who: 
continued till tie time of his death to make 
additions to his father’s well known works 
on the ** Juftices of the Peace,”’ which has 
gone through eighteen editions, was un- 
queftionably the molt active and intelli- 
gent magiftrate in the north of England. 
Educated under the eye of a parent, wnole 
knowledge of the civil and e elefaiti- 
cal laws of this country was equailed by 
few, and excelled perhaps by none, Mr.. 
Burn-obtained thofe acquirements which: 
rendered him. eminent in his: itation, and 
diftinguifhed above others. The lattcr 
editions of Dr. Burn’s ‘* Juftice of the 
Peace,” which were publifhed under the 
care of his fon, evince the talents and abi- 
lities of Mr. Burn, and prove that he was. 
not altogether unworthy to tread in the 
feotftsps of his father and inftructor, 
Whilt, however, we endeavour jultly to 
apprecia e the acquirements and exertions. 
of this gentleman, we cannot but lament 
that his morals, did not correfpond witix 
his abilities ; and, di{daining the trite apo- 
thegm of De mortuis nil nifi bonum, mutt 
deplore that the qualities of his heart did 
not equal thofe of his head. Poffefling a 
property greater than moft of his neigh- 
bours, his manners were neither genile, 
nor unafluming ; and the inhabitants of 
Orton were frced by his death from a re- 
traint under which they had been a long 
time held. He dicd in the {pring of 1802, 
aged 58. J 
About thirty years ago, lived William 
Farrer, of Redgill in this parith, who was 
a celebrated confuror, and of whom feveral 
remarkable fories are (till tokd. Among 
the branches into which the mofs-grown 
trunk 
* Biographia Britannica. 
+ Of Dr. Burn we fhall have eccafion to 
fpeak more at large in the Statiftical Account 
of Kirkbyftephea, of which he was 4 native 
