The Briscos of Crofton Hall - Thursby Cumberland
The motto of the Briscos is GRATA - SUME - MANU
Take With a Grateful Hand.
The arms shows: Three greyhounds courant in pale sable.
The crest shows: A greyhound courant sable seizing a hare proper.
The family seat of the Brisco family was based at Crofton Hall near Thursby in Cumberland.
It is recorded that the founder of the Brisco lineage settled at Brisco, Carlisle at the time of the conquests.
Around 1390 Iswold Brisco obtained the Manors of Crofton Whinnow & Dundraw when he married Margaret Crofton she was daughter & heir of Sir John Crofton of Crofton knt.
Portions of Crofton date from 1665 and other elevations were added in the 1830s Some of the interior was attributed to the brothers Adam.
At one stage there were some 780 acres of farm, park & heronry. Times newspaper reported on 13th January 1936 that the historic hall was to get a new use. It became a small holding for the unemployed for the Land Settlement Association. Smallholdings were established for the unemployed men in Cumberland.
This ended 500 years of occupation by the Brisco family.
Crofton Hall is now demolished but there are a number of structures associated with Crofton Hall that remain. Many of the parts of the Crofton Hall estate are now listed and details are available on the English Heritage website Images of England. There were 142 acres of gardens including 9 acres of water ad artificial water supply with a stone and mortar wall. Sixty - seventy fallow deer and swans,canada geese,selection of wild duck and a heronary.
The grounds were laid out by Sir John Brisco 1770 - 1775
Stable Block Thursby IE Ref 71935
Gate House Thursby IE Ref 712932
Ice House Thursby IE Ref 71936
West Lodge Thursby IE Ref 71933
South Lodge Thursby IE Ref 71934
Greenways Estate House IE Ref 71937
The line of the Brisco Baronets was created 11th July 1782 with John Brisco born 17th May 1739 died 7th December 1805 as the first Baronet of the Brisco line. It is clear that the Brisco family were very wealthy with most family members living in large houses and dozens of servants. At first glance the Briscos seemed to be respectable members of the upper class being magistrates a member of parliament and even the clergy. Respectable occupations, but the records show a darker side to the origins of the family wealth.
Please go to thepeerage.com for a very comprehensive listing of names associated with the Briscos or visit Wikipedia
Take With a Grateful Hand.
The arms shows: Three greyhounds courant in pale sable.
The crest shows: A greyhound courant sable seizing a hare proper.
The family seat of the Brisco family was based at Crofton Hall near Thursby in Cumberland.
It is recorded that the founder of the Brisco lineage settled at Brisco, Carlisle at the time of the conquests.
Around 1390 Iswold Brisco obtained the Manors of Crofton Whinnow & Dundraw when he married Margaret Crofton she was daughter & heir of Sir John Crofton of Crofton knt.
Portions of Crofton date from 1665 and other elevations were added in the 1830s Some of the interior was attributed to the brothers Adam.
At one stage there were some 780 acres of farm, park & heronry. Times newspaper reported on 13th January 1936 that the historic hall was to get a new use. It became a small holding for the unemployed for the Land Settlement Association. Smallholdings were established for the unemployed men in Cumberland.
This ended 500 years of occupation by the Brisco family.
Crofton Hall is now demolished but there are a number of structures associated with Crofton Hall that remain. Many of the parts of the Crofton Hall estate are now listed and details are available on the English Heritage website Images of England. There were 142 acres of gardens including 9 acres of water ad artificial water supply with a stone and mortar wall. Sixty - seventy fallow deer and swans,canada geese,selection of wild duck and a heronary.
The grounds were laid out by Sir John Brisco 1770 - 1775
Stable Block Thursby IE Ref 71935
Gate House Thursby IE Ref 712932
Ice House Thursby IE Ref 71936
West Lodge Thursby IE Ref 71933
South Lodge Thursby IE Ref 71934
Greenways Estate House IE Ref 71937
The line of the Brisco Baronets was created 11th July 1782 with John Brisco born 17th May 1739 died 7th December 1805 as the first Baronet of the Brisco line. It is clear that the Brisco family were very wealthy with most family members living in large houses and dozens of servants. At first glance the Briscos seemed to be respectable members of the upper class being magistrates a member of parliament and even the clergy. Respectable occupations, but the records show a darker side to the origins of the family wealth.
Please go to thepeerage.com for a very comprehensive listing of names associated with the Briscos or visit Wikipedia
Crofton Hall Thursby
On January 13th 1936 The Times recorded the sale of Crofton Hall to the Land Settlement Association for small holdings to be established for unemployed men in Cumberland.
It was the end of 500 years of occupation by the Brisco(e) and Crofton family spanning 1390 to 1936
After 500years of continuous occupation without a sale.
Parts of Crofton Hall in 1936 dated from 1665 & 1830
Below the family seat at Crofton Hall with its splendid staircase and stone gatehouse set in 780 acres of parkland with a fine heronry.
Isold Brisco married Margaret Crofton heiress of Sir John Crofton when it became the family seat of the united family during the reign of Richard III
Portrait of Lady Brisco at Kenwood House by Gainsborough
Brisco & the Sugar Trade St Kitts.
Interior of a Slave Ship - Slaves from Africa to a life on the plantations.
In the trienial register of slaves recorded for the Slave Register of Former British Colonial dependencies it shows Wastel 2nd Baronet 1778-1862 and other family members such as Dowager Lady Brisco & Mary Brisco had some 500 slaves registered under their name around the year 1831. Many of the slaves seem to be registered at St Christopher / St Kitts at a plantation referred to as The Grange. I seems that St kitts had adopted a monoculture of sugar to serve the needs of the British during that period and Wastel operated a plantation. Ultimately Slavery Abolition Act of Parliament (Abolition of Slavery Act 1834) would require plantation owners to pay their labour force. Whatever the rules on slavery Wastel would have been one of the good guys in the eyes of the British Government as this region produced around 80,000 tons of sugar annually providing some £250 Million of customs duty each year in today's money.
Many others recognised the real nature of the sugar industry. A poem in four books by James Grainger 1721-1766 "The Sugar Cane" seems to offer a good description of the sugar plantations.
At St Christopher there were 156 sugar plantations, ranging in size from 37 to 1200 acres. Of the 89 owners listed, the two with the largest holdings were Sir Wastel Brisco, an absentee holding five estates totalling over 2600 acres.
Whilst Wastel had an interest in the The Grange sugar plantations at St Kitts/ St Christopher he acquired Shadwell Great House as a part of a marriage settlement.
From the records it is clear that both Sir Wastel Brisco Bart and Musgrave Brisco held slaves in other places and in a document date 1st December 1813 Musgrave & Wastel convey coffee grove plantation slaves to a William Mitchell. At the same time other slaves belonging to Wastel, Musgrave,John Carmac & John Booth Barton were converyed to William Mitchell. Sarah Brisco born 1787-1867 was married to a William Carmac.
More details of the Slave Trade from Whitehaven have been produced from the RUM STORY Whitehaven
The BBC website makes comment on the way wealth derived from the slave business would allow those involved to have fine country houses.
Traces of the slave trade
The geography of the British Isles, unlike that of the United States, doesn't at first sight appear to yield any clues to the country's slave trading past. There are no plantations, no plantation houses and seemingly little to suggest any connection between this country and the transatlantic trade in human lives.
Slavery appears as something that happened a long time ago and very far away: out of sight and out of mind. But a closer look at the built environment reveals that links to the slave trade are not only much closer than we realise, but also more numerous.
For more information see the website of:
The Sugar Estates of St Kitts By Dr Grant Cornwall.
Many others recognised the real nature of the sugar industry. A poem in four books by James Grainger 1721-1766 "The Sugar Cane" seems to offer a good description of the sugar plantations.
At St Christopher there were 156 sugar plantations, ranging in size from 37 to 1200 acres. Of the 89 owners listed, the two with the largest holdings were Sir Wastel Brisco, an absentee holding five estates totalling over 2600 acres.
Whilst Wastel had an interest in the The Grange sugar plantations at St Kitts/ St Christopher he acquired Shadwell Great House as a part of a marriage settlement.
From the records it is clear that both Sir Wastel Brisco Bart and Musgrave Brisco held slaves in other places and in a document date 1st December 1813 Musgrave & Wastel convey coffee grove plantation slaves to a William Mitchell. At the same time other slaves belonging to Wastel, Musgrave,John Carmac & John Booth Barton were converyed to William Mitchell. Sarah Brisco born 1787-1867 was married to a William Carmac.
More details of the Slave Trade from Whitehaven have been produced from the RUM STORY Whitehaven
The BBC website makes comment on the way wealth derived from the slave business would allow those involved to have fine country houses.
Traces of the slave trade
The geography of the British Isles, unlike that of the United States, doesn't at first sight appear to yield any clues to the country's slave trading past. There are no plantations, no plantation houses and seemingly little to suggest any connection between this country and the transatlantic trade in human lives.
Slavery appears as something that happened a long time ago and very far away: out of sight and out of mind. But a closer look at the built environment reveals that links to the slave trade are not only much closer than we realise, but also more numerous.
For more information see the website of:
The Sugar Estates of St Kitts By Dr Grant Cornwall.
Shadwell Great House St Kitts
Shasdwell Great House St Kitts
Gilbert Fleming built this Great House in the second quarter of the eighteenth century. He was one of three commissioners appointed by the British Government to distribute the lands acquired from the French by the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht. In 1833 Fleming became Lieutenant General of the Leeward Caribbean and Lieutenant Governor of St. Christopher. He is reputed to have taken advantage of his official position to acquire a large estate, most of which was bequeathed to his son, Gilbert Fane Fleming.
When Gilbert Fane Fleming’s daughter Carolina married John Brisco, Shadwell was used as the marriage settlement.Fleming later bequeathed the property to the Lady Brisco to be passed on to her first son and his heirs
When Gilbert Fane Fleming’s daughter Carolina married John Brisco, Shadwell was used as the marriage settlement.Fleming later bequeathed the property to the Lady Brisco to be passed on to her first son and his heirs
An Exhibition at Holborn Library in 2012 gave details of :
The Slave-owners of Bloomsbury
Posted on 25/09/2012 by FN
By Nick Draper and Rachel Lang
Alongside Bloomsbury’s associations with literary and cultural gentility runs a less comfortable story of exploitation and oppression as many British colonial slave-owners settled in the area’s streets and squares in the 18th and 19th centuries, according to an exhibition, The Slave-owners of Bloomsbury which will run at Holborn Library from 1stOctober to 12th November.
The area between Oxford Street/Bloomsbury Way and what is now the Marylebone Road, from Portman Square in the west to Gray’s Inn road in the east, was the centre of ‘West Indian’ life in London and indeed in Britain. The area attracted absentee slave-owners and others connected with Britain’s slave-colonies from the 1770s to the 1830s. As well as slave-owners, Bloomsbury was home to many of the merchants and bankers who traded the products of the slave plantations and supplied slave-owners with British goods on credit.
These owners, merchants and financiers drew income from the forced labour of enslaved people in the Caribbean working on estates under the control of attorneys and managers. The slave-owners of Bloomsbury occupied positions of power and influence even as the mood in Britain as a whole increasingly turned against slavery.
The development of these streets, with Portland Place being laid out in the 1770s, Bedford Square in 1775-1780 and Russell Square in 1800, coincided with the deepening of ties between London’s mercantile and professional classes and the slave colonies. The parish church of St. George’s Bloomsbury was one of the major ceremonial centres for this community of Britons living off the proceeds of slavery.
The exhibition highlights several case studies of slave-owners to illustrate the ways in which slave-ownership permeated elite society in Bloomsbury. It includes politicians such as the MP Richard Godson who lived at 22 Woburn Place, businessmen such as Benjamin Greene who founded the brewing and pub company Greene King and lived at 45 Russell Square, and gentry such as Sir Wastel Brisco, whose townhouse was at 11 Beaumont Street.
It also includes the Antiguan slave-owner John Adams Wood, the man at the heart of Mary Prince’s struggle for freedom. Mary Prince was an enslaved woman brought by John Adams Wood to London as a servant, who left the Wood family’s house in Leigh Street but could not return to Antigua without being re-enslaved. Her story was recorded in the famous and powerful ‘History of Mary Prince’, one of the few surviving narratives by enslaved people. Mary Prince, who lived for a period at Keppel Street, now the site of the Senate House of the University of London (where a plaque commemorates her struggle) reminds us that enslaved people as well as slave-owners shaped modern Bloomsbury.
But slavery was only part of the connections between Africans and the area, and the exhibition also celebrates these other African presences. Both before and after the period of colonial slavery (c. 1630-1838), men and women of African and African-Caribbean origin were born, lived, worked and died in Bloomsbury. The exhibition seeks also to reflect this heritage, highlighting examples of people who achieved distinction such as the composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, born close to Holborn Library and who died one hundred years ago this year, as well as the less well-known figures of ‘ordinary’ men and women exemplified by Billy Waters.
The exhibition is organised by the Legacies of British Slave-ownership (LBS) project atUCL which has spent the last three years researching Britain’s debt to slavery. The project aims to publish shortly an online Encyclopaedia of British Slave-owners, as a public resource accessible to all to assist in the research of slave-owners, of estates in the Caribbean, of the enslaved people in captivity upon the estates, and of Britain’s debt to slavery.
In conjunction with Holborn Library, the LBS project is also running two workshops in the 2nd floor archives centre, Holborn Library, from 2pm to 4pm on Saturday 6th October and Saturday 3rd November. Places are limited so people will have to book in advance (email [email protected] to reserve a place). The workshops will explore links between Bloomsbury and slavery, and introduce sources for further study, including a prototype of theEncyclopaedia of British Slave-owners.
“The Slave-owners of Bloomsbury” will run at Holborn Library (2nd floor, archives centre) 32-38 Theobalds Road London WC1X 8PA from 1st October to 12th November 2012.
http://news.fitzrovia.org.uk/2012/09/25/the-slave-owners-of-bloomsbury/
The Slave-owners of Bloomsbury
Posted on 25/09/2012 by FN
By Nick Draper and Rachel Lang
Alongside Bloomsbury’s associations with literary and cultural gentility runs a less comfortable story of exploitation and oppression as many British colonial slave-owners settled in the area’s streets and squares in the 18th and 19th centuries, according to an exhibition, The Slave-owners of Bloomsbury which will run at Holborn Library from 1stOctober to 12th November.
The area between Oxford Street/Bloomsbury Way and what is now the Marylebone Road, from Portman Square in the west to Gray’s Inn road in the east, was the centre of ‘West Indian’ life in London and indeed in Britain. The area attracted absentee slave-owners and others connected with Britain’s slave-colonies from the 1770s to the 1830s. As well as slave-owners, Bloomsbury was home to many of the merchants and bankers who traded the products of the slave plantations and supplied slave-owners with British goods on credit.
These owners, merchants and financiers drew income from the forced labour of enslaved people in the Caribbean working on estates under the control of attorneys and managers. The slave-owners of Bloomsbury occupied positions of power and influence even as the mood in Britain as a whole increasingly turned against slavery.
The development of these streets, with Portland Place being laid out in the 1770s, Bedford Square in 1775-1780 and Russell Square in 1800, coincided with the deepening of ties between London’s mercantile and professional classes and the slave colonies. The parish church of St. George’s Bloomsbury was one of the major ceremonial centres for this community of Britons living off the proceeds of slavery.
The exhibition highlights several case studies of slave-owners to illustrate the ways in which slave-ownership permeated elite society in Bloomsbury. It includes politicians such as the MP Richard Godson who lived at 22 Woburn Place, businessmen such as Benjamin Greene who founded the brewing and pub company Greene King and lived at 45 Russell Square, and gentry such as Sir Wastel Brisco, whose townhouse was at 11 Beaumont Street.
It also includes the Antiguan slave-owner John Adams Wood, the man at the heart of Mary Prince’s struggle for freedom. Mary Prince was an enslaved woman brought by John Adams Wood to London as a servant, who left the Wood family’s house in Leigh Street but could not return to Antigua without being re-enslaved. Her story was recorded in the famous and powerful ‘History of Mary Prince’, one of the few surviving narratives by enslaved people. Mary Prince, who lived for a period at Keppel Street, now the site of the Senate House of the University of London (where a plaque commemorates her struggle) reminds us that enslaved people as well as slave-owners shaped modern Bloomsbury.
But slavery was only part of the connections between Africans and the area, and the exhibition also celebrates these other African presences. Both before and after the period of colonial slavery (c. 1630-1838), men and women of African and African-Caribbean origin were born, lived, worked and died in Bloomsbury. The exhibition seeks also to reflect this heritage, highlighting examples of people who achieved distinction such as the composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, born close to Holborn Library and who died one hundred years ago this year, as well as the less well-known figures of ‘ordinary’ men and women exemplified by Billy Waters.
The exhibition is organised by the Legacies of British Slave-ownership (LBS) project atUCL which has spent the last three years researching Britain’s debt to slavery. The project aims to publish shortly an online Encyclopaedia of British Slave-owners, as a public resource accessible to all to assist in the research of slave-owners, of estates in the Caribbean, of the enslaved people in captivity upon the estates, and of Britain’s debt to slavery.
In conjunction with Holborn Library, the LBS project is also running two workshops in the 2nd floor archives centre, Holborn Library, from 2pm to 4pm on Saturday 6th October and Saturday 3rd November. Places are limited so people will have to book in advance (email [email protected] to reserve a place). The workshops will explore links between Bloomsbury and slavery, and introduce sources for further study, including a prototype of theEncyclopaedia of British Slave-owners.
“The Slave-owners of Bloomsbury” will run at Holborn Library (2nd floor, archives centre) 32-38 Theobalds Road London WC1X 8PA from 1st October to 12th November 2012.
http://news.fitzrovia.org.uk/2012/09/25/the-slave-owners-of-bloomsbury/
Hylton Castle 1830s - A home for Hylton Brisco
Hylton Castle /Orton Park Carlisle Home of Hylton Harvey
Originally named Hylton Castle, Orton CA5 6JN.
English Heritage listed 78362
Images of England states it was built in the 1830s by Sir Wastel Brisco, for his son Hylton Harvey Brisco 1810-1896 ; mid C19 extension. Stucco on chamfered plinth with angle pilasters, string course and central parapet. Welsh slate roof with coped gables; ashlar chimney stacks. 2 storeys, 7 bays, with lower extension of 2 storeys, 5 bays. 6-panel door in painted stone architrave; pilaster and entablature doorcase. Ionic porch with fluted columns. Sash windows with glazing bars, painted stone sills. Extension: sash windows with glazing bars, painted stone sills. End wall right is slate hung. Rear: full height pilasters between each window; heavily modillioned and dentilled eaves cornice. Interior: early C19 hall ceiling of moulded plaster; cantilever stone staircase of square plan with wrought-iron decorative balusters and wood handrail. Principal ground floor room has similar moulded plaster ceiling. Wastel was also responsible for Orton Park School built around 1859.
May 2010 Hylton Castle is For Sale £1,100,000
A spacious Grade II Listed country house set in approximately 3 acres of grounds lying just 3 miles from Carlisle. Built in the early 1800s the property is approached from a long tree-lined drive and overlooks the surrounding parkland.
Listing NGR: NY3548453174.
English Heritage listed 78362
Images of England states it was built in the 1830s by Sir Wastel Brisco, for his son Hylton Harvey Brisco 1810-1896 ; mid C19 extension. Stucco on chamfered plinth with angle pilasters, string course and central parapet. Welsh slate roof with coped gables; ashlar chimney stacks. 2 storeys, 7 bays, with lower extension of 2 storeys, 5 bays. 6-panel door in painted stone architrave; pilaster and entablature doorcase. Ionic porch with fluted columns. Sash windows with glazing bars, painted stone sills. Extension: sash windows with glazing bars, painted stone sills. End wall right is slate hung. Rear: full height pilasters between each window; heavily modillioned and dentilled eaves cornice. Interior: early C19 hall ceiling of moulded plaster; cantilever stone staircase of square plan with wrought-iron decorative balusters and wood handrail. Principal ground floor room has similar moulded plaster ceiling. Wastel was also responsible for Orton Park School built around 1859.
May 2010 Hylton Castle is For Sale £1,100,000
A spacious Grade II Listed country house set in approximately 3 acres of grounds lying just 3 miles from Carlisle. Built in the early 1800s the property is approached from a long tree-lined drive and overlooks the surrounding parkland.
Listing NGR: NY3548453174.
Wastel Brisco
Crofton Hall Thursby - Family seat of the Brisco Family
Wastel Brisco & The Courts
The Citizen (Carlisle) - Sir Wastel Brisco and Ourselves 1st March 1830.
Well after the divorce proceedings had been started by Wastels wife Sarah there was an editorial leader in The (Carlisle) Citizen 1st March 1830 No XXI entitled Sir Wastel Brisco and Ourselves - Alleged Libel by The Citizen against Sir Wastel. It seems that the Citizen had published or referred to a letter that they had received and published in The Citizen on 1st September 1829. The letter did not mention Wastel by name just B........ but suggested in a colourful manner that this person was an ill mannered drunkard. Wastel used his wealth and influence to have revenge on the monthly publication, possibly after recognising aspects of his character.
Full details of the items printed in The Citizen. 1st March 1830 are shown here. .
Apart from attacking the local newspaper through the courts for a libel, during his life there are several records of Wastel in court on different issues. As well as his long running divorce from Lady Brisco there are a number of other cases that offer a flavour of life with the Briscos as well as incidents where others ended up in court after problems with the Briscos.
It seems Lady Brisco living away from Sir Wastel would run up debts with local traders without an intention of settling the bill as in Davis v (Wastel) Brisco for horse feed purchased by Lady Brisco. In August 19xx a Mr Richard Broster an Ironmonger of Carbuton Street, Fitzroy Square was charged by the police with breach of the peace. Apparently he turned up on a Friday at 164 Albany Street the home of Lady Brisco seeking payment for goods supplied over two years previously. Following threats to " knock ladyships brains out" he was arrested. The long running case of Brisco v Brisco did establish a certain amount of case law concerning a wife separated from a husband and the responsibility for the debts incurred. It is clear that Wastel was regularly in court or being taken to court and was content to visit a judge at his home to discuss the case in private as he did during his long running divorce case.
Full details of the items printed in The Citizen. 1st March 1830 are shown here. .
Apart from attacking the local newspaper through the courts for a libel, during his life there are several records of Wastel in court on different issues. As well as his long running divorce from Lady Brisco there are a number of other cases that offer a flavour of life with the Briscos as well as incidents where others ended up in court after problems with the Briscos.
It seems Lady Brisco living away from Sir Wastel would run up debts with local traders without an intention of settling the bill as in Davis v (Wastel) Brisco for horse feed purchased by Lady Brisco. In August 19xx a Mr Richard Broster an Ironmonger of Carbuton Street, Fitzroy Square was charged by the police with breach of the peace. Apparently he turned up on a Friday at 164 Albany Street the home of Lady Brisco seeking payment for goods supplied over two years previously. Following threats to " knock ladyships brains out" he was arrested. The long running case of Brisco v Brisco did establish a certain amount of case law concerning a wife separated from a husband and the responsibility for the debts incurred. It is clear that Wastel was regularly in court or being taken to court and was content to visit a judge at his home to discuss the case in private as he did during his long running divorce case.
Mary Taylor v Brisco Bart -- February 1846
Thursday 23rd February 1846 Northern Circuit Carlisle Assizes.
This was a case where the plainttiff 22 year old Mary Taylor was engaged for a lalf year by a Mrs Stow(e) (housekeeper) in October 1845 as a Laundry Maid in the home of Sir Wastel Brisco Bart. The girls mother was also in service at Crofton Hall as a cook. As an addition to her laundry duties the girl was also required to assist the housemaid in the making of the nine beds and when the housemaid was not available this was an additional task. It seems Mrs Stow complained that the beds were not being made to her likeing and an angry exchange between Mary and Mrs Stow also involving the girls mother argued that there was not enough time being allowed for all the bed making. After the angry exchange it seems both Mary and the girls mother were told to pack their bags and leave. A cart collected them and they were oblidged to find lodgings. The case involved the lost earnings and it seems the court awarded the plaintiff £12.9s.
During the case there was discussion on the relationship of Sarah Stow and Sir Wastel with it being said that she had born him many children.
Thur 26th February 1846 19170
This was a case where the plainttiff 22 year old Mary Taylor was engaged for a lalf year by a Mrs Stow(e) (housekeeper) in October 1845 as a Laundry Maid in the home of Sir Wastel Brisco Bart. The girls mother was also in service at Crofton Hall as a cook. As an addition to her laundry duties the girl was also required to assist the housemaid in the making of the nine beds and when the housemaid was not available this was an additional task. It seems Mrs Stow complained that the beds were not being made to her likeing and an angry exchange between Mary and Mrs Stow also involving the girls mother argued that there was not enough time being allowed for all the bed making. After the angry exchange it seems both Mary and the girls mother were told to pack their bags and leave. A cart collected them and they were oblidged to find lodgings. The case involved the lost earnings and it seems the court awarded the plaintiff £12.9s.
During the case there was discussion on the relationship of Sarah Stow and Sir Wastel with it being said that she had born him many children.
Thur 26th February 1846 19170
After all the litigation and divorce proceedings.
In 1851 when Wastel was age 72 years he is recorded still at Crofton Hall in the same house as Sarah Stow age 65 years but she is still recorded in the census as a housekeeper.The working class knew their place in society in those days and were kept there. Ten years later Wastel is recorded a year before his death living alone at Crofton Hall with just four servants. He had a Butler,cook,housemaid and a laundry maid. Sarah Stow who had climbed from "below stairs" soon learnt to treat the servants with the same contempt and lack of care as Wastel and in a well recorded court case Sarah Stow as a senior servant hired and fired staff and controlled their work with the whole hearted support of Wastel. The transcription from a report in The Times gives an indication on what it must have been like working for the Briscos. View Here
A charge of Simony - Robert Brisco 3rd Bart
Not all the problems that the Brisco family faced were with the law and there is a record of Robert Brisco 3rd Bart 1808-1884 encountering a few problems with the clergy.
In 1827 Robert was called to the Chapel of Carlisle Cathedral because of a charge of simony. Where he sought to buy religious favours by means of a request to fund the Rector of Orton until his son Fleming came of age and then for the Rector of Orton to pass to his son. The bishop responded and "gave the lash" and ordered Robert Brisco to pay the costs charged.(March 1859) His son Fleming Brisco born 1845 would have been about 14years old and the clergy would have offered an occupation if the law or army were unsuitable occupations when he came of age. This was at a time if you had money you thought you had influence. Have things changed in 21st century Britain?
In 1827 Robert was called to the Chapel of Carlisle Cathedral because of a charge of simony. Where he sought to buy religious favours by means of a request to fund the Rector of Orton until his son Fleming came of age and then for the Rector of Orton to pass to his son. The bishop responded and "gave the lash" and ordered Robert Brisco to pay the costs charged.(March 1859) His son Fleming Brisco born 1845 would have been about 14years old and the clergy would have offered an occupation if the law or army were unsuitable occupations when he came of age. This was at a time if you had money you thought you had influence. Have things changed in 21st century Britain?