[9] So called after Ketel, son of Eldred, son of Ivo de Tailbois, first Baron of Kendal, who came over with William the Conqueror.
[10] Canto vi., stanza 33, ‘Robin the Devil’ and Col. Briggs. See also ‘Annals of Kendal,’ (1861,) pp. 55, 56.
[11] The Commentator on Philippians; cf. my Memoir of him, prefixed to the reprint of his masterly book, p. vii. Since this Memoir was published, I have discovered that Dr Airay was son of Bernard Gilpin’s sister Helen. See the Apostle’s ‘Will,’ in the Surtees’ volume of ‘Wills and Inventories, from the Registry at Durham,’ (1860,) Part II., pp. 83-94. So that the Gilpins and Airays were related. I have to thank William Jackson, Esq., Fleatham House, St Bees, for calling my attention to this. It explains obscurities in the life of Airay, and gives a key to Bernard Gilpin’s special interest in him.
[12] The Life of Bernard Gilpin. By William Gilpin, M.A., Prebendary of Salisbury. With an Introductory Essay by Edward Irving. 1824. Page 123.
[13] That is, Richard Sibbes; Memoir, as before; Works, Vol. I. p. xxxi.
[14] Shakespeare, As you Like it, ii. 7.
[15] In a large quarto manuscript volume of ‘Memoirs’ of the Gilpins, drawn up by the Prebendary of Salisbury, (supra,) now before me by the kindness of its possessor, Charles Bernard Gilpin, Esq., Juniper Green, Edinburgh, I find the following concerning the above points: ‘He was the son of a younger brother, and being born to no estate, applied the first years of his life to the study of physic. But feeling a stronger inclination to divinity, he laid aside all thoughts of practising as a physician, and changing entirely the course of his studies, he took his degrees in divinity; but at what university, I find no account,’ (page 1.)
[16] See Appendix B. I have here gratefully to acknowledge the painstaking of Mr T. A. Eaglesim, M.A., of Worcester College, Oxford, by himself and the Bursar of Queen’s, in examining every likely source of information.
[17] See Appendix C, for some of these.
[18] Barnes’ Memoirs, page 141, as before. The Maitland Club ‘Munimenta’ of the University of Glasgow, (4 vols. 4to,) gives a ‘Richardus Gilpin, Anglus, entered 11th January,’ 1717,—none other.