The Birkbecks of Westmorland and their descendants . he built a house calledJulians Bower, close to Hornby, which was still standing in the time ofAnne, Countess of Pembroke, with its wainscotted hall, hung round withprodigious stags heads. His brother Robert succeeded him, and entertained Edward Balliol atPendragon Castle on his expulsion from Scotland in 1337. Anne, Countessof Pembroke, in whom y* name of y said Cliffords determined, says inher Diary that she formed the design of restoring Pendragon Castle asearly as 1615, but she had several other ruined castles to repair, so that itwas not
The Birkbecks of Westmorland and their descendants . he built a house calledJulians Bower, close to Hornby, which was still standing in the time ofAnne, Countess of Pembroke, with its wainscotted hall, hung round withprodigious stags heads. His brother Robert succeeded him, and entertained Edward Balliol atPendragon Castle on his expulsion from Scotland in 1337. Anne, Countessof Pembroke, in whom y* name of y said Cliffords determined, says inher Diary that she formed the design of restoring Pendragon Castle asearly as 1615, but she had several other ruined castles to repair, so that itwas not till 1660 that Pendragon was restored. She placed the followinginscription over the castle gate :— This iendragon Castle was re|iayred by the Lady Anne Clifiord, countcsse ofIL-nibroke, Dorsett and Montgomerie, baroncsse Cliftbrd, Westmorland and \escie,bigh Sbcriffessc by inheritance of the county of Westmorlandj and lady of thehonour of Skipton in Craven, in the year i66o : so as she came to lye in it herself Inq. post mortem 8 Edward II., THE BIRKBECKS OF WESTMORLAND. 67 for a little while in October i56i, after it had layen ruinous without timber or anvcovering ever since the year 1541. Isaiah, chap. Iviii, ver. 12. Gods name bepraised. The text is so appropriate that it must be quoted here : And theythat shall be of thee shall build the old waste places : thou shalt raise up thefoundations of many generations ; and thou shalt be called, The repairer ofthe breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in. The castle was dismantledin 1685, and has since been a quarry for building stones. The reproduc-tion from Bucks engraving shews what its state was in 1738, but there isvery little now remaining. Mallerstang Chapel, which is a perpetual curacy, lies a mile south ofthe castle, and is said to have been built during the life of Robert deClifford in the reign of Edward II., and as recorded in a stone over thedoor, This Chappie of Mallerstang, after it had layne ruinous and dec
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