Border city in Cumberland which appears in the surviving correspondence surrounding the execution of William Christian in the Isle of Man.

On 16 January 1663 Charles II ordered the Earl of Derby to bring William Christian before the King and Council. The royal order stated that Christian had petitioned against his imprisonment and conviction for treason in Mann and was considered legally capable of receiving royal favour.

The order arrived too late: William Christian had already been executed at Hango Hill on 2 January.

A month later, on 19 February, another William Christian wrote from Carlisle to Secretary Williamson about the affair. He thanked Williamson for favours and expressed the hope that Derby would answer the King's letter, while those responsible for the Manx proceedings would have to answer for their own actions. The letter was endorsed “Concerning the Earl of Derby's proceedings in the Isle of Man.”

The evidence pack does not establish the identity of this second William Christian securely enough to identify him with a particular member of the Manx Christian family. It does, however, show Carlisle as one point from which the aftermath of the Hango Hill execution reached central government.