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Excerpt from The Register of the Priory of St. Bees
T the date when the priory of St. Bees was founded the district in which it is situated was well organ ised according to Norman ideas in the ecclesiastical as well as in the civil sphere. The whole of the western portion of the modern county of Cumberland from the Wampool not far from Carlisle to the Duddon on the ex treme south-west was composed of two great fiefs, the barony of Allerdale on the north of the Derwent in poss ession of Waldeve son of Earl Gospatric, and the barony of Coupland, sometimes called the barony of Egremont from the name of the baronial seat, on the south of the Derwent in possession of William Meschin, both fiefs being held by grant of Henry I. Though these two hets lay in different fiscal areas, they were under the same ecclesi astical government, both being in the archdeaconry of Richmond and diocese of York before the formation of the see of Carlisle in 1133.
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