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680 When she had finished her hospital, she not only led and placed her pensioners in their several apartments, but frequently dined with them there, as they often did with her at her own table; some of them every week, and all of them once a month; and after dinner she would as freely converse with them, as with persons of the highest rank.

She repaired the church, school-house, town-hall and bridge, at Appleby.

Rebuilt a great part of the church, and made a vault at the north east corner of the chapel for her own sepulchre, at the expence of about 700£. over which, she erected a monument of black and white marble for herself.

She built a great part of the steeple at Skipton, in Craven, which had been pulled down in the time of the civil wars. And having repaired a great part of that church, erected there a fine monument for her father, George, earl of Cumberland.

She entirely built the church at Bongate, near Appleby; the chapel at Brougham, and that of Ninekirk.

She rebuilt the chapel of Mallerstang, and purchased lands of 11£. per annum, for the perpetual support of a person qualified to read prayers, with the Homilies of the church of England, therein; and to teach the children of the Dale to read and write English.

She likewise performed many great things for the honour and benefit of her family and posterity; for besides other inferior structures, she built six castles. Neither was she less careful in preserving the memoirs of her ancestors; for we are assured by bishop Rainbow, 'that, as she had been a most critical searcher into her own life, so she had been a diligent enquirer into the lives, fortunes, and characters of many of her ancestors for