[167] Rydal Hall MSS.
[168] Rydal Chronicles.
[169] Letters of the Wordsworth Family.
[170] In the mediæval story of Reynard the Fox, the Priest's barn is well walled about. See Francis Bond's Misericords, p. 73.
[171] De Quincey Memorials, vol. ii., 90-91.
[172] The Ven. William Jackson, D.D., was born in 1792, and preferred to the benefices of Whitehaven, Penrith, Cliburn and Lowther (Rector 1828-1878) by the Earl of Lonsdale, who gave him Askham Hall to serve as the Rectory of Lowther. Bishop Percy appointed him Canon and Chancellor of Carlisle, and gave him an Archdeaconry, which he resigned on becoming Provost of Queen's College, Oxford (1862-1878). He married the daughter of Mr. Crump who built Allan Bank, and had four daughters; two died young, one married a Mr. John H. Crump, the other the present Provost of Queen's College, Oxford, the Rev. J. R. Magrath, D.D.—Ed.
[173] He had resigned the living in 1878.
[174] See Ambleside Town and Chapel, p. 42.
[175] See Ambleside Town and Chapel, p. 46.
[176] Ambleside "Curates" Bible, Transactions, C. and W. An. S., n.s. vol vii.