EDEN HALL, LUCK OF, an old painted or enamelled glass drinking goblet preserved at Eden Hall, Cumberland, the seat of the Musgrave family, perhaps of the loth century. It has the letters I.H.S. on the top. Round the vase is the verse given below. In the grounds of Eden Hall is a spring called St. Cuthbert's Well, and the story is that one of the early Musgraves surprised the fairies making merry at the well, and seized the goblet from the fairy king, who eventually acknowledged his defeat and gave him the cup, but warned him : When this cup shall break or fall, Farewell the luck of Eden Hall.
Possessed of the cup, the knight of Musgrave is said to have at once prospered in a love-suit. There is a poem on the cup called "The Drinking Match at Eden Hall," by Philip, duke of Wharton, a parody on the ballad of Chevy Chase, reprinted in Edward Wal f ord's Tales of Great Families (1877, vol. xi.), as "The witty Duke of Wharton."