See, for instance, William Green’s A Description of a Series of Sixty Small Prints (1814), which opines that the “splendid display of wood” in this particular site
“is no where equalled in the north of England” (30). Green was an Ambleside-based
artist and friend of the Wordsworths.

During the Jacobite uprising of 1745, the claimant to the British throne, Charles
Edward Stuart, amassed an army in Scotland and marched as far south as Derby before
being driven back north by troops loyal to George II.

The battle occurred on October 21, 1805.

In 1785 two brothers skating on Broadwater fell through the ice and drowned. Since
that time, as Wordsworth notes, the lake has been known as Brothers Water.

Edward Hasell (1765-1825), owner of the Dalemain estate near Ullswater, was famous
in the region for his annual Martindale hunts.

Line 35 of the poem “Loyalty Confined” from Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry. Percy dates the poem to 1671 and tentatively attributes it to Sir Roger L’Estrange.

In Part I of The Compleat Angler (1653), Izaac Walton sets out “to recover the lost credit of the poor despised Chub.”