The Preston genealogy; tracing the history of the family from about 1040, , in Great Britain, in the New England states, and in Virginia, to the present time . es and others in thepinfold that was walled with stone, and which stood in the mid-dle of the village. Sir Henry Slingsby, a Yorkshire baronet, w!i->took part in the engagement does not give the number says: —There was taken, besides killed, -200 foot, whicliwere sent to the Prince; .i IT sailors and some ricli countryiuvnwere kept prisoners at Dalton Castle. Again he says:—we V^^inot any; oidy Sir John Preston had his
The Preston genealogy; tracing the history of the family from about 1040, , in Great Britain, in the New England states, and in Virginia, to the present time . es and others in thepinfold that was walled with stone, and which stood in the mid-dle of the village. Sir Henry Slingsby, a Yorkshire baronet, w!i->took part in the engagement does not give the number says: —There was taken, besides killed, -200 foot, whicliwere sent to the Prince; .i IT sailors and some ricli countryiuvnwere kept prisoners at Dalton Castle. Again he says:—we V^^inot any; oidy Sir John Preston had his horse killed, and it mayseem that being down, some of the foot running by gave him aknock on the head, but some thought it was by falling upon astone, for the contusion of his scull was nuide so in the midJltof it as one could not imagine how the fall should make it. Ih-lay in a swoon and speecliless many days, but his ])erfect senseand understanding he recovered not for half a year after. Some idea of the magnificent j)roportions of th*buildings may be gained frf)m tlie subjoined illusti-;i-tion and table: FURXESS ABBEY. 341 r e f - • ? »« 1 \ ^. *The following are the principal interior dimensions ofFurness Abbev: Church ......... Chancel Transepts 130 Sacristy . Chapter-IIou-e Monks Dormitory . Cloisters Cloister Walks .... Cellariura Infirmary Abbots House .... Len gth. W idth. •>7G ft. 0 in. . G6 ft. 0 in Oo (( G i i . 27 G 130 (i 0 a . 30 0 50 (( 0 \i . 16 G 00 i i 9 ii. 45 G 20-2 a G a . 30 G 1:35 a 0 a . lOtj G ?? — li — i I. 12 0 2U (( 0 i i 29 0 153 (C 0 i : . 4: G TO (i 0 i i . 2(j 0 The part taken by Henry VIII. relative to themouastei-ies. is described: In lo3G, when Henry decided upon the suppression, orconfiscation of the smaller monasteries, a bill was brouHit into 342 APPENDIX, PRESTON GENEALOGY. Parlianioiit, and Hume states, It does not appear that any opjio-sitioii was made to tliis important law. But Sir Ilem-y Sp^i-man, in his De non Teme
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