Identifier: countiesofenglan01ditc (find matches)
Title: The counties of England, their story and antiquities
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930
Subjects: Great Britain -- History England -- Antiquities
Publisher: London : G. Allen
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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a very cunning person. Hewas ruling when William the Conqueror came to England,submitted to him, and tried to play a double game,conspiring now with Scot and then with Norman, untilWilliam saw through his designs and exiled him. Inthe year of the Conquest Malcolm was ruling the county,but in 1092, when Dolfin was in power, William Rufuswent north, drove out Dolfin, restored Carlisle, built acastle and placed therein a strong garrison. Owing to the wars and confusion of centuries the land was sparselypeopled; so the Red King imitated the plan ofancient Assyrian monarchs, and transplanted some of theEnglish folk whom he had driven out of their dwellingsin Hampshire, for the purpose of enlarging his huntinggrounds, to the hills of Cumberland, thereby bringing ina new strain to the already mixed blood of the peopleof that border land. Henry I. constituted Cumberland an Earldom, whichhe gave to Ranulph Meschin, and in 1133 created thenew See of Carlisle, establishing a priory of canons, who
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Cumberland 69 soon began to erect a beautiful church, which, on accountof the troublous times that followed, never attained to the magnificence they contemplated. Meschin built acastle at Appleby, afterwards the seat of a barony whichultimately became the county of Westmorland. Gils-land and Lyddale were constituted baronies for thedefence of the northern boundaries, and Burgh also forguarding of the Solway. The Earl became weary ofhis northern home, and having succeeded to the Earldomof Chester, he somewhat reluctantly gave up Carlisle,having a mind to keep both. Confusion reigned when Stephen ruled, and the Scotsseized upon the border counties. King David came toCarlisle and built the keep of the castle in 1139, and inthe Battle of the Standard the men of the shire foughton the side of the Scots against the English. Duringthe infancy of Davids successor the strong hand ofHenry II. wrested the county from the Scottish grip. Heoften came to the cathedral city, and there held aconferenc

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