Edward GRAHAM Sr. ¹

  General Notes:

Edenhall
EDENHALL, in Leath ward, lies four miles from Penrith. The first proprietor of the manor upon record is Henry Fitz-Swein; in the reign of Henry III. it belonged to Robert Turp; a co-heiress of that family, after three descents, brought it to the Stapletons, in whom it continued five descents, and then passed with a co-heiress to the Musgraves in the reign of Henry VI. Sir Richard Musgrave, who had been made Knight of the Bath at the coronation of James I. was made a baronet in the month of June 1611, being one of the second list after the institution of the order. Sir Philip Musgrave, the second baronet, distinguished himself in the civil wars on the side of King Charles I. and is said to have been one of the last who despaired of the royal cause; he took Carlisle from the parliament in 1648, and was made governor of that city. The present baronet is Sir Philip Musgrave, as yet under age; Eden-hall is in the possession of his mother Lady Musgrave, relict of the late Sir John Chardin Musgrave, Bart. The singularly curious glass vessel, called the Luck of Eden-hall, has been already spoken of.
On the west side of the tower and in the south window of the parish church are the arms of Stapleton, Vipont, Musgrave, and Hilton. In the church is the grave-stone of William Stapleton, Esq. who married the heiress of Vipont, and died in 1457. There are several monuments of the Musgrave family. (fn. 1)
The church of Eden-hall was given by King Edward I. to the priory of Carlisle, and was soon afterwards appropriated to that monastery. The dean and chapter of Carlisle are now appropriators and patrons; the vicarage is united to that of Langwathby.
It appears by the parish register that forty-two persons, supposed to have been a fourth part of the inhabitants, died of the plague at Eden-hall in 1598.
There is a school at Eden-hall, endowed with 4l. per annum, by one of the Musgrave family.
The commons of this parish were inclosed by the act of 1803, for inclosing the honor of Penrith and forest of Inglewood.

From: 'Parishes: Edenhall - Grinsdale', Magna Britannia: volume 4: Cumberland (1816), pp. 100-109. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50687 Date accessed: 14 March 2012.

Edward married Mrs. Edward GRAHAM. (Mrs. Edward GRAHAM was born about 1652 in Edenhall, Cumberland, England ³.)