1. Thomas Watson, ‘Lazonby Hall’,The Patriarch’s Aeolian Harp(Penrith, 1860) [hereafter cited asPatriarch], p. 50.
2. Cumberland and Westmorland Advertiser, 1 July 1884, p. 6.
3. Cumbria Record Office Carlisle (hereafter, CROC), Rain Family Records, DX 1755/15/1.
4. Penrith was at the hub of an extensive Wesleyan Circuit during Watson’s lifetime. See fn. 2.
5. Thomas Watson,The Patriarch’s Aeolian Harp, new edn (Penrith, 1906) [hereafter,Patriarch1906]. I would like to thank Stephen White for drawing this edition to my attention. For a brief history of thePenrith Herald, see David Parry,Newsplan: Report of the Newsplan Project in the Northern Region, October 1987–September 1988(British Library, 1989), p. 270.