PENRITH, an ancient town of the county of Cumberland in England, seated under a hill called Penrith-Fell, near the rivers Eimont and Lowther. It is a great thoroughfare for travellers; but has little other trade except tanning, and a small manufacture of checks. Formerly it had a castle, but it is now in ruins. In the church-yard is a monument of great antiquity, consisting of two stone-pillars 11 feet 6 inches high, and five in circumference in the lower part, which is rounded; the upper is square, and tapers to a point; in the square part is some fret-work, and the relievo of a cross; and on the interior side of one is the faint representation of some animal. Both these stones are mortified at their