Page & topic | Notes |
3: Geomorphology etc. | Davis, R.V. "Geology of Cumbria" (1977) Eastwood, T. etc. "The Geology of the Whitehaven and Workington District" (Geological Survey, 1931 ed.) |
3: Roman remains | West Cumberland Times, 1878 Jul 13 page 6e CWAAS 2-48 pages 55+ 60 See also Camden, William "Britannia" (first published 1586), for early speculation about the Roman harbour: |
3: Medieval Parton | So far all negative evidence before 1566 (see below); no Parton-in-Moresby references found in indexes of PRO printed calendars; the monastic cartularies of St. Bees, Holme Cultram, Furness or Lanercost (transcripts at JLC). However, the full text of Inquisitiones Post Mortem relating to early Lords of the Manor of Moresby (at the PRO) may contain relevant information (e.g. the Inquisition at the death of Hugh de Moriceby, 28 Jan, 22 Edward III 1347/8, includes an extent of the manor, not abstracted in the PRO calendar). I have not yet found the truth behind the statement in Parson & White "Directory of Cumberland & Westmorland" (1829) that Parton "is more ancient than Whitehaven, and the military have their route designated 'to Parton' when Whitehaven is intended as their quarters". |
3: Church assets 1535 | "Valor Ecclesiasticus" quoted in
Allen, Rev H.J. "History of the Church & Benefice of Moresby" (c1907) |
3-4: Harbours survey: | CWAAS 2-21, transcribed from
State Papers (Domestic) of Queen Elizabeth, addenda v13 no. 13 (and also available in the published PRO calendar of those papers) |
4: Growth of Irish coal trade | Nef, J.U. "The Rise of the British Coal Industry" (1932)
There's a bit of confusion here: Beckett, J.V. "Coal and Tobacco" (1981) appears to cite Nef as evidence for the early importance of Parton as a coal port, though Nef's references, both in the main text and the statistical Appendix d (iii) are to Workington. Further examination of Nef's sources (at the PRO) and related documents he didn't have time to check in detail might be interesting. |
4: Fletchers and Moresby | Brooker, J.G. "The Fletcher Family" (3 volume typescript, 1935-9, at JLC), which includes family trees and quotes, inter alia:
Fletcher, William "The Fletchers of Cockermouth Hall" (article in West Cumberland Times, 8 Aug 1885) |
4: Fletcher coal mines | Wood, Oliver "West Cumberland Coal" (CWAAS Extra Series XXIV, 1988) + PRO Calendar of Chancery proceedings, James I, C24/5 (Oswald Crofthatt & five other freeholder husbandmen of Distington v Henry Fletcher, 10 Nov 1621) |
4: Salt pans | Referred to in 1678 foreshore rights case; see specifically petition by William Fletcher, transcribed in
CRO D/LONS/W.1/31, pages 34-5 |
4: Lowthers at Whitehaven | Summaries in
Wood "West Cumberland Coal" and in Hay, Daniel "Whitehaven: A Short History" (1968) + revised edition as "Whitehaven: An Illustrated History" (1979) |
4: Whitehaven port in 1633 | Letter of 17 May 1633, quoted in
Wood "West Cumberland Coal" |
4: Christopher Lowther's order | Letter of 12 Nov 1633 in Hainsworth, D.R. (editor) "Commercial papers of Sir Christopher Lowther, 1611-1644", Surtees Society vol 189 (for 1974, published 1977) |
5: collapse of pier | Beckett "Coal and Tobacco" states that the old pier was destroyed in a gale in the early 1630s, apparently based on a claim in
PRO E/134/31&32 Charles II/Hilary term 26 (a document in the later foreshore rights battle, see page 9 notes) which I have not read. My more tentative interpretation is based on the 1678 Fletcher petition CRO D/LONS/W.1/31, pages 34-5 |
5: Lowthers at Whitehaven + foreshore dispute | Hay "Whitehaven...." |
5: loading out-of-turn | correspondence transcribed in
CRO D/LONS/W.1/31 |
5-6: pier sketch map | Letter from Thomas Tickell to Sir John Lowther, 18 Jan 1674/5. Serious embarrassment here: I came across a reproduction of the sketch-map, shortly before sending the book to press, in an article about salt-pans in the Bulletin of the Cumbria Industrial History Society (December 1988 issue, by Blake Tyson), and jotted down the letter reference. Finding I didn't have time to look up the letter, in WRO microfilm of correspondence between Thomas Tickell & Sir John Lowther 1642-1706 (original, CRO D/LONS/W.2/1) I decided to mention the sketch anyway, because of the way its date fitted with other documents. See the "Corrections and Updates" page for the unfortunate sequel. |
6: Sandford | Sandford, Edmund "A Cursory Relation of all the Antiquities and Familyes in Cumberland" (c1675, published by CWAAS 1890) |
6: Fleming | Fleming, Sir Daniel "Description of Cumberland" (1671, published in CWAAS Tract Series 3) |
6: Denton | Denton, Thomas "A Perambulation of Cumberland and Westmorland... 1687& 88" (typed transcript at JLC) |
6: Fletcher debts | CRO D/Lons/W1/66 (notes by James Lowther, c1718), "My advice to those that come to my estate at Whitehaven" See also page 11 notes below. |
6: reconstruction map | Based on sketch plans in CRO D/LONS/W.10 folder of loose Parton plans, plus additional plans on WRO JAC 358, microfilm of Andrew Pellin plans |
6-7: foreshore rights | Lowther's petition, 4 Mar 1677/8, in
PRO "Calendar of Treasury Books, 1676-9"
All other correspondence transcribed in CRO D/LONS/W.1/31: William Christian 19 Mar 1777/8 Thomas Tickell 26 Mar 1678 Matt. Miller (Whitehaven customs comptroller) 27 Mar 1678 William Fletcher 17 May 1678 ship masters & merchants, no date (pages 44-5 in transcript) |
7: Civil War | Anon [Manders, Henry] "Moresby Hall and its owners in the olden time", 1875 |
8: delay by Customs | PRO "Calendar of Treasury Books, 1676-9", request by William Fletcher, 23 Jul 1678 |
8: seamen list | CRO D/LONS/W1/31, pages 51-53 |
8: estate valuation | CRO D/LONS/W.1/31, pages 36-37 |
8: Surveyor General's report & grant | PRO "Calendar of Treasury Books, 1676-9", 13 Mar 1678/9 |
8-9: appeals against grant | CRO D/LONS/W.1/31, pages 56-59 |
9: church attendance | CRO D/LONS/W.1/31, pages 190 & 210 |
9: loading agreement | Wood, "West Cumberland Coal" |
9: new pier | PRO E 134/31 Charles II/Michaelmas term 28 (online catalogue description) +
sketch plan in CRO D/LONS/W.10 folder of loose Parton plans + PRO E 134/31&32 Charles II/Hilary term 26 (online catalogue description) |
9: unanswered question | CRO D/LONS/W.1/31, page 13 |
9: legal quays | PRO E 178/6636 (online catalogue description)
see also PRO "Calendar of Treasury Books" Treasury warrant for ports of Carlisle & Whitehaven, 25 Aug 1681 |
10: Whitehaven pier | PRO "Calendar of Treasury Books" petition from Lowther, dated 22 Jul 1684 |
10: Lowther coal business | Wood "West Cumberland Coal" |
10: Lamplugh agreement | Hainsworth, D.R. (editor) "The correspondence of Sir John Lowther of Whitehaven 1693-1698" (1983), letter 20 (+ 79) |
10: William Christian | Hainsworth "1693-1698", letter 97 |
10: Denton | Denton "Perambulation" |
10: Lamplugh's staithes | Hainsworth "1693-1698", letter 122 |
10: profit puzzle | Hainsworth "1693-1698", letter 200 (+ 209) |
10-11: canal & basin | Hainsworth "1693-1698", letter 215 |
11: Fletcher mortgage | Hainsworth "1693-1698", letters 58 + 233 |
11: pier progress | Hainsworth "1693-1698", letters 233 + 235 + 240 + 243 |
11: legal advice | Hainsworth "1693-1698", letters 234 + 235 + 243 |
11: old injunction | Hainsworth "1693-1698", letter 245 (+ 244) |
11: decree | Hainsworth "1693-1698", letters 246 + 256 |
11: readiness of pier | Hainsworth "1693-1698", letters 252 + 255 |
11: new injuction | Hainsworth "1693-1698", letters 258 (editor's note) + 259 |
11-12: injunction failure | Hainsworth "1693-1698", letters 258 + 260 + 262 + 263-265 (interesting details regarding Lamplugh's circulation of a certificate for local businessmen to sign, asserting that the new pier would not damage Whitehaven, and attempts to influence the local Dissenters) + 266-269 (gathering of evidence of breaches of the new injunction) + 274 + 279 (researching old Government documents) + 282 |
11-12: teething troubles | Hainsworth "1693-1698", letters 259 + 262 + 264 + 266 (+ 273) |
11-12: Lamplugh in London | Hainsworth "1693-1698", letters 260 + 276 + 282 |
12: pier improvement | Hainsworth "1693-1698", letter 324 |
12: salt pans | Hainsworth "1693-1698", letters 311 + 338 |
12: regular shipments | Hainsworth "1693-1698", letters 314 + 321 + 324 |
12: Lowther use of Parton | Hainsworth "1693-1698", letters 327-328 + 331 + 335 |
12: map | Sketch plans in CRO D/LONS/W.10 folder of loose Parton plans, and Andrew Pellin plan (WRO microfilm JAC 358). NB Roads assumed from later property deeds but not shown on sketch maps, except "Brewery Brow", indicated on Pellin's Parton plan as "The Road from Morresby down towards Parton Harbour". |
13: routine | Hainsworth "1693-1698", letter 340 |
13: coal price slump | Hainsworth "1693-1698", letters 347 + 353 + 355 |
13: silting solution | Hainsworth "1693-1698", letters 375 + 377
sluice basin shown on sketch plan in CRO D/LONS/W.10 folder of loose Parton plans, and on Pellin plan (WRO microfilm JAC 358) |
13: problems with Fletcher | Hainsworth "1693-1698", letter 440 (+ mortgage/sale negotiations in letters 235 + 244 + 254 + 255 + 257 + 258 + 261 + 276) |
13: problems with colliery | Hainsworth "1693-1698", letters 420 + 430 + 440 + 492 |