PLATE IV. Group V.-1, Dacre; 2, Layton of Dalemain; 3, Bouche; 4, Genton; 5, Fallowfield; 6, Strickland. Group VI.-1, Lucy; 2, Brougham; 3, Binham. PLATE V. Group VII.-1, Huddleston; 2, Le Fleming; 3, Dudley; 4, Blunston; 5, Harrington; 6, Maltravers; 7, Salkeld; 8, Vernon; 9, Curwen; 10, Ireby; 11, Thornborough; 12, Thwaites. PLATE VI. Group VIII.-1, Engayne; 2, Stanwix; 3, Sandis; 4, Southaik. Group XIII.-1, Vipont; 2, Lowther; 3, Musgrave; 4, Hellebeck. PLATE VII. Group IX.-1, Lancastre; 2, Broughton; 3, Bardsey; 4, Preston; 5, Kirkby; 6, Lovick; 7, Copeland. PLATE VIII. Group X.-1, De Meschines; 2, Warwick; 3, Halton; 4, Orton; 5, Bird; 6, Fairfax; 7, Pickering; 8, Leyburn; 9, Dudley. PLATE IX. Group XI.-1, Harcla, Earl of Carlisle ; 2, Fletcher; 3, Moresby; 4, Orfeur; 5, Kirkbride; 6, Bouche; 7, Ellis 8, Thwaites. PLATE X. s; Group XIV.-1, Carlisle; 2, Lamplugh; 3, Upton; 4, Delamore. Group XV.-1, Brisco; 2, Patrickson; 3, Whelpdale; 4, Machell; 5, Matholl, the colours are marked wrong of this coat; they should be the same as those of Machell, for which I rather think Matholl is a slip of St. George. ART. XXXVII.-A Runic Inscription on Hessilgil Crag: Murchie's Cairn. By the late Rev. John Maughan, B.A., Rector of Bewcastle. Read at Penrith, August 15th, 1873. DUR URING the summer of 1872, a Scandinavian Runic Inscription was discovered by a shepherd, named John Davidson, on one of the Hessilgil Crags, on the Highgrains Farm, in the parish of Lanercost, in the county of Cumberland. The Hessilgil Crags are about half a mile north of the Barnspike Crags, where a Runic Inscription was discovered in 1864, which is recorded in Prof. Stephens's Work on the OldNorthern Runic Monuments, page 548. Like the Barnspike, the Hessilgil Inscription faces the north, and is well protected from the weather by another crag, which stands close to it, and forms a barrier against the shower and the blast. The Runes may be read as on the accompanying illustration, being about the same size and shape as those at Banspike. In a modern notation it reads thus: ASKRHRITAHAFTGILHIMTHIGA HESSIL askr hritah aft Gil himthiga Hessil (lit) LIT "Askr wrote this in memory of the son of his companion Hessil." On these words I shall now make a few brief observations. ASKR. This may be either the name of ASK or ASKR, as in proper names the R final often merely denotes that the noun is in the nominative case. Here, however, I prefer ASKR because we have a remarkable trace of him in the word ASKERTON, the name of one of our noted Border Castles, and probably the ancient residence of the ASKR, whom, with his friend Hessil, we may suppose to have been an old Norse pirate, and to have settled in this district and given his name to it. The township of Askerton lies on the north side of the parish of Lanercost, is about ten miles long, and five miles broad, and contains the Barnspike and Hessilgil inscriptions, which are about three miles from the far-famed inscription on the Bewcastle Cross. In very old records Askerton appears to have consisted of two Askertons, so that we may assume that the family of ASKR had flourished in these |