In October 1787 an order was made by the county’s Justices of the Peace meeting in the Westmorland Court of Quarter Sessions at Lowther directing the High Constables to make returns relating to population. A similar order was made by the Cumberland Justices at Penrith but appears not to have survived. The attached list of Sewell and variant names is taken from the surviving Westmorland returns, some of which are only partial.