Altering house, and building stables at Rose New Tower there, and court walls School at Dalston £.30, Tenement there £.80 Court House at Dalston 100 53 230 500 500 300 He left the revenues of that church in the best condition they had been in since the Restoration. Upon the death of Bishop Rainbow, he was (to his own great surprise, and no less satisfaction of the whole diocese,) recommended by King Charles to the Chapter for their Bishop, and by them unanimously elected on the 3rd day of May, 1684. On the 29th of June following (being St. Peter's day) he was consecrated in St. Peter's Church, at * See Jefferson's History of Carlisle. York, by Bishop Dolbin, assisted by the Bishops of Durham and Man; and about the middle of July did his homage at Windsor, and had restitution of the temporalities of his See. He bestowed on the public library built by him at Carlisle for the use of the clergy of the diocese many valuable books, in which his autograph may be seen. There is an engraved portrait of him in the vestry of the cathedral at Carlisle; the original, probably, is at Rose Castle. He died at Rose Castle on the 12th day of April, 1702, aged 87, and was buried in the Cathedral at Carlisle; over his remains are his armorial bearings, and the following inscription, according, as it is said, to his own instructions : D. S. THOMAS SMITH, S.T. P. hujus Ecclesiæ primum Canonicus, dein Decanus, tandemque Episcopus, placide hic in Domino requiescit; vixit annos LXXXVII. Obiit duodecimo die Aprilis anno Christi MDCCII. Moriens qui maxima meruit D.S. plura hic dici negavit. And, by the side of it, the following to his wife : D. S. Hic intus jacet ANNA SMITH, R.P.D.D. Thomæ Carliolensi Episcopi, Conjux Charissima, John Waugh*. BISHOP OF CARLISLE, PREBENDARY OF LINCOLN, AND DEAN OF GLOUCESTER. 1660-1734. "Genus et proavos et quæ non fecimus ipsi Vix ea nostra voco. "OVID. Nought from my birth or ancestors I claim, OPE SEXTUS the Fifth, as stout a Pope as ever wore the Triple Crown, but a poor man's son, used to say in contempt of the sneers raised against him, that he was born of an illustrious house; because the sunbeams passing through the broken walls and ragged roof illustrated every corner of the homely cottage in which he was born. In this wise John Waugh's House was indeed * There is a fine engraved portrait of him in St. Peter's, Cornhill, and in many houses in Westmorland; it is by Faber from an original by Vanderbank, to be found, as we believe, at Rose Castle. illustrious! The little tumble-down, thatchless, and smoke-dried cabin, where he was born, may be found nearly opposite the Gardeners' Arms in Scattergate, Appleby. It was (if we are rightly informed) one of the old Burgage tenures, and so long as that ancient borough had the privilege, in common with the Sheep-cote of Old Sarum, to send representatives to the grand assembly of lawmakers, it had its value in the estimation of the noble owner, and was industriously propped up and now and then occupied. But since the Augæan stable was cleansed by the all-sweeping measure of Reform, it has been the daily haunt of sparrows, snails, and lizards; with no other covering but the canopy of Heaven, with a wisp of straw for a window, and a scale-board for a door; one gable standing, but-in mockery of the past. If one may reason from small things to great-from a cabin to a castle- the law maxim cessante ratione cessat et ipsa lex has been misprinted cessat et ipsa res on the audit ledgers of Appleby Castle. Let us hope that the rising star of the house of Thanet may stand over it! A noble and generous spirit has just redeemed from the dust the hearth of Shakspeare and others of humbler caste. May it extend its genial influence to such as that of John Waugh ! With our will uncontrolled a Guardian Angel should have charge of them. He was born at this place in the year 1660. The general opinion seems to be that his father was a |