source: L.A.S. Butler, ed., The Cumbria Parishes, 1714-1725, from Bishop Gastrell's Notitia, with additions by Bishop Porteus, 1778-1779, Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, Record Series, vol. 12 (1998), p. 197: in 1778-9 upwards of 40 boys were instructed in Greek and Latin.