The account of the history of St. Anthony's Church at Cartmel Fell (Nostalgia, August 2) was written by me some 10 or 15 years ago.
After the leaflet on which it was based was printed, I checked it and found that, when referring to the now-erased inscription on the painted glass - ("Wilm Brogg goeth to market upon Tuesday xjj Aprill. God Fend him"), the word 'market' had been substituted for what it should have been - 'London'.
The then vicar said he would have the mistake in the leaflet corrected, but obviously this has been overlooked.
Going to market was hardly a dangerous exercise, but going to London was going into the unknown. Doubtless there would have been a train of packhorses taking the wool or woollen goods to London, but thieves were more likely to be on the lookout for merchants returning home with gold in their purses.
Even in the seventeenth century, the wife of the vicar of Witherslack wrote to her son, begging him to return from his Oxbridge college in company of others. She sent him half a crown to remind him he had a mother who loved him.
Jennifer Forsyth
Grange-over-Sands
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