Bygone Cumberland And Westmorland - The Original Classic Edition. Daniel Scott

repeated the following vow, which seems to have been in practically the same terms in various manors:--"I become your man from this day forward, for life, for member, and for worldly honour, and unto you shall be true and faithful, and bear you faith for the lands that I hold of you, saving the faith that

       I owe to our Sovereign Lord the King." The lord, still sitting, then kissed the tenant, as a token of his approbation. In Cumberland

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       and Westmorland there are several villages named Carleton, this being one of the reminders of the days of serfdom. The carls were simply the basest sort of servants--practically slaves.