The Birkbecks of Westmorland and their descendants . WESTMORLAND. 45 buried 4 June, 1707. His only son, Edward, had no surviving issue,and at his death, 3 June, 1728, Coatflat was divided between his two sisters,Isabel marrying John Metcalfe, and Elizabeth, married to Leonard Thorn-borrow. Coatflat Hall, which was situated a mile from Orton, was pulleddown in 1793, but I thought some of the interior walls of the presentfarmhouse and the barn were part of the original hall. Orton Hall, which is now called Petty Hall, is in the middle ofthe village, and very much as it was 300 years ago : what i

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The Birkbecks of Westmorland and their descendants . WESTMORLAND. 45 buried 4 June, 1707. His only son, Edward, had no surviving issue, and at his death, 3 June, 1728, Coatflat was divided between his two sisters, Isabel marrying John Metcalfe, and Elizabeth, married to Leonard Thorn-borrow. Coatflat Hall, which was situated a mile from Orton, was pulleddown in 1793, but I thought some of the interior walls of the presentfarmhouse and the barn were part of the original hall. Orton Hall, which is now called Petty Hall, is in the middle ofthe village, and very much as it was 300 years ago : what is now knownas Orton Hall being a modern house, the residence of Colonel Burn, thegrandson of the Historian. There is a description of the house in an article on Manorial Hals, by Dr. Taylor, in Transactions of Cumberland and WestmorlandAntiquarian Society, vol. xii., p. 19, from which I am enabled, by thecourtesy of Mr. Wilson, the Secretary, to copy the wood-cut of the stonepanel over the door. The initials are those of George and MargaretBirkbeck.. One of the mullioned windows still has the old glazing in diamondlead-work, also G. and B. on the corbel heads. The old oak door, with its iron-work, still has its oak bar running horizontally in a tunnel. 46 THE BIRKBECKS OF WESTMORLAND. One side of the kitchen is taken up by the great open chimney-arch with alittle square spy-hole window. Dr. Gibson, the present owner of PettyHall, shewed me a piece of oak panel taken from an old pew in OrtonChurch, on which is carved ^p^ and below *^r. ^ No doubt the formerire the initials of Brian Birkbeck and his wife Elizabeth, and the latterthose of Christopher Petty and his wife Elizabeth, their daughter andheiress. Thomas Birkbeck, with whom commences the following Pedigree, certified by Dugdale in his Visitation of Yorkshire, a.d. 1666, musthave been the second son of George and Margaret. The Wharton otKirkby There Pedigree in the Visitation of Westmorland has Anne, eldest daughter of Thomas