Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society is a long-standing local history periodical.Volume 5 (new series), 1905 is available online here. Extracts of interest are reproduced below:

p63

"Roger de Clifford was the son and heir of Robert de Clifford, who is mentioned in the third petition. "He was attainted of treason," say Nicolson and Burn, (i., p. 277), "in the 15 Ed. II. [1322] ... for adhering to Thomas earl of Lancaster."
Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, led the baronial opposition to Edward II.; he was captured at Boroughbridge and executed March 22, 1321-22; and so the date of this petition will lie between 1322 and July, 1323, as we gather from Mr. Whitwell's notes.
Mr. Whitwell first quotes from the Close Roll (17 Edw. II. [1324], m. 40 in Calr. 11) : —
‘1323 July 28. Cowick.
To the sheriff of Westmorland.
Order to permit the abbot and convent of Hepp to receive four marks of yearly rent as below, as their predecessors have been wont to receive from the time of the making of the charter of Robert son of John de Veteri Ponte, as the King learns by inquisition taken by Robert de Barton and Henry de Warthecoppe, that the aforesaid Robert granted to the abbot and convent by his charter four marks of yearly rent of his cornage due to him from certain of his tenants in the county of Westmorland, to wit from Thomas de Hellebeck and his heirs, two marks of yearly rent for lands held of Robert in Ascom, from Robert de la Fierte and his heirs one mark of yearly rent for lands held of Robert in Milneburn, and from Eustace de Laval and his heirs one mark of yearly rent for lands held of Robert in Milneburn, to be received at two terms of the year, for the maintenance of a canon of the convent to celebrate divine service daily in the abbey for the dead, saving to Robert and his heirs the homages, wardships, reliefs, suits of court, and all other services that the said Thomas, Robert and Eustace have been wont to render for the aforesaid lands, in addition to the four marks aforesaid, and that the abbot and convent and their predecessors have always been in full and peaceful seisin of the above rent from the time of the making of the said charter until the rent was taken into the King's hands by the forfeiture of Roger de Clifford, the last lord of the aforesaid tenants.
Afterwards, on 24 March, the like order was sent to the sheriff.’"

See also *Nicolson et al 1777 p407.

p88

"Shield of Arms at Barton Church.

On the east side of the porch at Barton Church is an interesting shield of arms, concerning which some small error has arisen. It is supposed, and probably is, the armorial bearing of the family of Hartsop, of Hartsop in Patterdale. Nothing definite appears to be known about this family, and I have never come across the name except in Nicolson and Burn, who state that one of the Lancasters of Sockbridge, married an heiress of that family and quartered their arms. This is no doubt correct, in that the family of Lancaster did quarter these arms, but the name may not have been Hartsop. The small error I wish to correct is that the arms are incorrectly given in all the local books, and always without the tinctures. On carefully examining the shield, three cross crosslets are plainly visible between the tynes of the stag's horns, and in the visitation of Westmorland, 1615, the arms are given as arg. three stags' heads cabossed surmounted with cross crosslets fitchee gules."

See Barton arms.

p96

"Of Highhead, in Dalston parish, valued in 1739 at £13, Nicolson and Burn say that a license was granted in 1358 to build a chapel and have a chaplain, but that it had never been made parochial: they christened and buried at the mother church, and holy communion was administered at the chapel by the vicar (of Dalston) every Maundy Thursday. In Bishop Nicolson's time there was sometimes a curate at Highhead, sometimes a reader. On June 7, 1707, it appears by the bishop's register that Wm. Pool, A.M., deacon, was licensed as curate and schoolmaster, but he did not remain there, for on Aug. 7, 1707, the bishop records in his diary, " Mr Kanier, with ye new reader of High- Head, who was sent, with a Letter, to sue for Mr Miller's concurrence"; and on October 1, 1707, Sam. Kelph (literate) was licensed schoolmaster and reader. He was afterwards, in 1726, ordained deacon as curate of Allhallows. In 1713, Bernard Barton was licensed as reader and schoolmaster, and in 1715 Bernard Barton, of Ivegill, was ordained deacon; no fresh license was issued to him. In 1721 Wm. Miles was ordained deacon and licensed as schoolmaster and curate. In 1724 the bishop's register contains a nomination by the trustees of High-Head chapel of Isaac Wilson to be schoolmaster and reader : this is followed by the bishop's certificate that he had subscribed the declaration prescribed in the Act of Uniformity. On June 10, 1745, Joseph Hudson; M.A., was licensed as curate ; on Sept. 23, 1745, Joseph Blaine, clerk, was licensed; in 1746 Thomas Stack, literate, was ordained deacon ; and in 1749, John Scott, literate; he was ordained priest in 1752. This and Mungrisdale (mentioned below) are the only cases which I have noticed at that period of such a chapelry giving a title to priest's orders."

p197

"[October 1673] Given then to Thomas Barton youngest sonne of Mr Robert Barton of the Breeks Two Shillings and six pence 0.2.6"