22 S. H. Scott, A Westmorland Village: The Story of the Old Homesteads and “Statesman” Families of Troutbeck by Windermere (Westminster, 1904), 21. A statesman whose papers survive in the Cumbria Record Office at Kendal was Benjamin Browne of Westmorland (1664-1748).

23 Paul Brassley, “Northumberland and Durham,” in Thirsk, ed., Agrarian History of England and Wales, Vol. 5, Part 1, 49.

24 Robert V. Remini, Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Empire, 1767-1821 (New York, 1977), 15; T.G.F. Darby, “The Agrarian Economy of Westmorland” (thesis, Univ. of Leicester, 1965).

25 J. Leopold, “The Levellers’ Revolt of Galloway in 1724,” SLHSJ 14 (1980), 4-29.

26 Hughes, North Country Life in the Eighteenth Century: The North East, 1700-1750, 16.