HORNBY, (Lancashire) on the r. Lon. or Lune, almost at the extremity of the Co. next to Westmoreland, had a castle, a fine
building, which was the seat of the Lds. Monteagle, a branch of the Stanleys Earls of Derby, and since of the Parkers, one
of whom marrying into that family, had, in the R. of Ja. I. the same title conferred upon him; and it was this nobleman by
whose means the gunpowder plot was discovered. Here is a Mt. on M. It is now the seat of Charles Weem. Esq;.