[196] Dr. Cox's Parish Registers.
[197] See "A Westmoreland Township" in the Westmorland Gazette.
[198] Mr. G. Brown has been helpful in this matter, which is very fully discussed in Mr. H. S. Cowper's Hawkshead. See also Ambleside Town and Chapel.
[199] Memorials of Old Lancashire, vol. i., p. 60.
[200] Browne MSS
[201] Remnants of Rhyme, by Thomas Hoggart, Kendal, 1853.
[202] Hone's Table Book.
[203] Queen Elizabeth's Palace at Greenwich had its Presence Chamber, in 1598, "richly hung with tapestry and strewn with rushes."
[204] Morrison Scatcherd, quoted in the Rushbearing pamphlet compiled by Miss E. Grace Fletcher.
[205] Survey of the Lakes, 1789.