, of CarkhalL in Lancashire, esq. an able Saxon scholar, the only
, of CarkhalL in Lancashire, esq. an able Saxon scholar, the only son of Curwen
Rawlinson of the same place, who died in 1689, and descended from a family of long standing in High Furness,
and very numerous in the parish of' Hawkshead and Colton, was collaterally related to the subjects of the three
following articles. He was born in 1677, educated at
Queen’s college, Oxford, made upper commoner May 10,
1695, and eminently distinguished for his application to
Saxon and Northern literature. He published, whilst at
Queen’s college, a beautiful edition of king Alfred’s Saxon
translation of “Boethius de Consolatione Philosophise,
”
Oxon. Grammatica Anglo-Saxonica, ex Hickesiano Thesauro excerpta,
” printed at Oxford in Viro eximio Christophoro Rawlinson Armigero, Literaturae Saxonicae Fautori egregio, hasce breviculas Institutiones Grammaticas dicat, dedicat, Editor.
”
He left behind him a large collection of Mss. among which
are many relating to Westmorland and Cumberland, of
which copies are at sir Michael le Fleming’s at Rydal. He
ordered his under-coffin to be heart of oak, and covered
with red leather; and died January 8, 1732-3, aged fiftyfive. At the north end of the north transept of the abbeychurch of St. Alban’s is a white marble sarcophagus, with
a figure of History sitting on it, reclining on her left arm,
holding in her hand a pen, with which she writes in a book,
while two other books lie under her feet. Below is this
epitaph: