ABSTRACT
On the borders of the small but beautiful lake called Grasmere Water,2 in the country of Cumberland, is Grasmere Abbey, an old seat belonging to the family of Newenden. The abbey, founded by Ranulph Earl of Chester,3 for forty Cistersian monks, was among those dissolved by Henry the Eighth; by whom it was given, with its extensive royalties, to the family of Brandon; from whence it descended by a female to Sir Edward Newenden, its present possessor.
