1695 16 July.
Whereas it appears to this Court that on the 17th day of June last past there happened a lamentable fire in the dwelling house of George Cookson of Martindale which in a very short time did burn down and consume the same with all his goods and the loss amounting to above £30 whereby the said George and his family are utterly ruined without the charity of well disposed christians. The deplorable condition of the sufferer is hereby recommended to the charitable benevolence of well disposed christians within the County of Westmorland.

1756 26 April.
John and Michael Lancaster were both convicted of coursing, hunting and killing one fallow deer in the forest of Edward Hasell, esquire, called Martindale Forest.

From: 'Parishes (West Ward): St Michael, Barton', The Later Records relating to North Westmorland: or the Barony of Appleby (1932), pp. 256-277.