By Nicholas Corder
The legal situations vividly defined via Nicholas Corder during this gripping e-book take the reader on a trip into the darkish mystery part of Cumbria's lengthy background. The hills, villages and marketplace cities of this well-known panorama were the surroundings for a sequence of awful, bloody, occasionally strange incidents over the centuries. From crimes of brutal premeditation to crimes born of ardour or depression, the full diversity of human weak spot and wickedness is represented right here. Swindlers, conmen, smugglers, pirates, baby killers, deserters, fraudsters, robbers and customary murderers humans those pages, besides their sufferers. There are descriptions of public executions and circumstances of remarkable family cruelty and malice that led to dying. Unforgettable neighborhood circumstances are reconstructed - the extreme profession of the imposter John Hatfield, the Whitehaven raid of John Paul Jones, the unsolved homicide of negative Lucy Sands, and plenty of extra. Nicholas Corder's chronicle of Cumbria's hidden...
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Joseph Budworth’s 1792 guidebook, A Fortnight’s Ramble to the Lakes, concentrates mainly on descriptions of the landscapes. However, he turned his pen to Mary Robinson with a description that was to make her name: Her hair was thick and long, of a dark brown, and though unadorned with ringlets, did not seem to want them; her face was a fine contour, with full eyes, and lips as red as vermilion; her cheeks had more of the lily than the rose; and although she had never been out of the village … she had a manner about her which seemed better calculated to set off dress, than dress her.
On 13 September of the same year, whilst Jonathan Sewell was cutting corn at Durdar, Ann Heslop, with Thomas Wallis and David Wilson, two yeomen from Penrith, joined him in the field and encouraged him to drink ‘large quantities of ale and spirituous liquors’, whilst yet another post chaise stood by, waiting to cart him off again. This time they’d altered the plan again and took him to Thomas Wallis’s house in Penrith, the next day moving him to Hood-Foot, where he spent another three days, after which he was moved over the mountains to Stanhope in Weardale, County Durham, where he was imprisoned in the house of John Walton.
Between 1776 and 1975, this house was used by the visiting judges presiding over the assizes at the nearby castle. As the area was administered by three different counties, the Assizes for many of these crimes were held in Carlisle (for Cumberland), Lancaster (for the Cartmel and Furness peninsulas) and Appleby for the few crimes that happened in the Westmorland area. All three towns are today well-kept and inviting, and whilst, like anywhere, they still have a few problems, the average visitor would have little to complain about.