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All this and he still went off to war so
this might explain the reason for the motto.
1311
Robert the Bruce ‘burnt all the land of the Lord of
Gillesland’. Inhabitants of Irthington and other parts may have been
forced into subjection to the Scots.
1314
After English defeat at Bannockburn, the English borders
were defenceless and victorious Scots poured into and devastated
northern Cumbria and Northumberland, ravaging Tynedale
Robert the Bruce came again but was bought off with money.
1315
High Crosby raided by Scots.
1315-22 Sustained economic decline in the North in 1300’s
and 1400’s, particularly after harvest failures and famine in 1315 –
1317 and then livestock plagues in years 1315- 22.
1317
Dacres gained Gilsland by marriage.
1318
The Abbott of St Mary’s, York, asked to sell surpluses of
his tithes of grain from Westmoreland to keeper of the king’s victuals
at Carlisle.
1319
Scots raided again, devastating north-west England and
burning Gilsland and carrying off inhabitants. ‘The best and
richest of the country about Gillesland and Lidell’ reported as having
changed
sides and allied themselves to Scots, following Scots
invasion and their abandonment by the English king. Protection
extended by Scots to men of Gilsland and Liddel.
1322
Widespread devastation by Scots including Skelton,
Greystoke and Blencow.
1328
Treaty of Edinburgh concedes Scottish independence.
1333
Particularly savage burning and ravaging of Gilsland by
Scots led by Archibald Douglas.
1334
Naworth became main seat of the Dacres for next two
centuries; an impregnable castle.
1337
Lord of Gilsland raided and burned into Scotland with
counter attacks on his lands.
1341
Inquisitiones Nonarum blames county’s
impoverishment at this time upon many men having become horsemen and
archers in wars against the Scots, and also extensive disease of
murrain affecting sheep in all parts of the county except in Crosby and
Stanwix parishes.
1345
Great Scots raid on Gilsland and the Eden Valley, with burning of
Penrith, Blencow, Greystoke and Skelton.
1346
Lanercost Priory ransacked by Scots.
1349
First outbreak of Black Death, which killed at least a
third of Carlisle’s people by 1352.
1350
Production of wool goods concentrated in southern Cumbria
around Kendal and subsequently ceased to be an extensive cottage
industry in northern Cumbria.
1352
Income from demesne land at High Crosby remained low because ‘it
could not be demised better after the pestilence’.
(1357 – Arms awarded to Adam)
1361-62
Second major outbreak of the Black Death, whose worst effects may
have been limited to the Carlisle area and the Eden Valley.
1369
Plague revisited Cumbria.
1377
Poll Tax return records 678 names of over-14 year olds living in
suburbs as well as inside Carlisle city walls. Ropes made at
Naworth.
1379
Almost entire population of Newton in Northumberland killed by
the Black Death, which had reached Durham in 1349.
1388
Cumberland and Westmoreland devastated by Scots. Destruction at
Irthington and at other settlements.
This is an extract
from the Wannop family site
www.wannop.info/Wannop_Border_Country/Wannops_in_a_Cumblerland_and_Northumberland_Context.html
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