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THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF
THE DEANERY OF CRAVEN,
IN THE COUNTY OF YORK.
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OF THE EANERY OF GRAVEN,
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COUNTY OF YORK.
BY THOMAS DUNHAM WHITAKER, LL.D., F.S.A.,
Vicar of Whalley, in Lancashire.
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EDITED BY A. W. MORANT, F.S.A., F.G.S., &c.
AND WITH
A CHAPTER OX THE GEOLOGY, NATURAL HISTORY AND PRE-HISTORIC ANTIQUITIES, BY L. C. MIALL, F.G.S., PROFESSOR OF BIOLOGY /.v THE YORKSHIRE COLLEGE.
LEEDS: JOSEPH DODGSON.
LONDON: CASSELL FETTER & GALPIN. 1878. <
CAVENDO
TO HIS GRACE
THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE,
K.G., LL.D., F.R.S.,
CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE,
THIS THIRD EDITION OF
THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF CRAVEN
BY HIS GRACE'S OBEDIENT SERVANT,
JOSEPH DODGSON.
LEEDS, March, 1878.
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.*
;HE following Advertisement is intended by the Author to discharge a duty while it will gratify his own feelings. Topographers have often complained, and not without reason, that their applications for assistance and information were either repelled with rudeness, or received with neglect. From both these mortifications the writer of the History of Craven has been exempted. In many instances the most valuable and original materials have been confided to him without application ; in no one instance have they been with held when asked for. The greater part of the Author's obligations would have been acknowledged in a more conspicuous manner had not a circumstance happened, which was incapable of being remedied before it came to his knowledge. The aquatinta engravings occupy so large a space upon a page limited by the size of the volume, as to allow of no inscriptions besides a simple title. This, when discovered, was a matter of sincere regret, as it laid the author under the necessity of withholding dedications on the other engravings, to avoid the appearance of partiality in the manner of expressing his gratitude.
[* The original prospectus was as follows: Prospectus of a HISTORY of the DEANERY of CRAVEN and WAPONTAKE of STAINCLIFFE, in the County of York, in six books, intended as a continuation of the History of Whalley, by THOMAS DUNHAM WHITAKER, LL.D., F.S.A. The Introduction will contain a general outline of the subject, together with Remarks on the Soil, Climate, Mineralogy, and Scenery of the Country. BOOK ist will consist of the British and Roman Antiquities of Craven, particularly the Station of Olicana, and other Encampments, a Roman Villa, Roads, &c. together with the Discoveries belonging to these periods, which at different times, have been made within that District. BOOK 2nd will embrace Monastic Antiquities, including an ample account of the Monasteries of Salley and Bernoldswick (i.e. Kirkstall) and the Priory of Bolton. Observations on the Monastic Life and Manners, the State of Religion in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries, &c. Several interesting Epistles and other Remains of the Abbots of Kirkstall and Salley, hitherto unpublished. Also many Original Epistles, and other Curious Particulars of viii PREFACE. It only remains for him, therefore, to discharge that multiplied debt in the best way that he is able. To His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, he desires to present his humble acknowledgments for two engravings, one of the great family portrait of the Cliffords, and another of Bolton Priory; as also for access to the Compotus of that house, and other evidences in the highest degree curious and important. At the same time it becomes him to state that these distinguished favours were procured by the intervention of John Heaton, Esq., his Grace's principal agent. In the next place he is indebted to Thomas and John Heelis, Esqs., agents of the Earl of Thanet, for their permission to open the Muniment Room at Skipton Castle, and to consult what yet remains of its once valuable contents. The Right Honourable Lord Ribblesdale has munificently contributed no less than seven plates, of which the armorial engraving was drawn by the Honourable Thomas Lister, together with a fund of original information relating to his own and the Lambert family, as well as the parishes of Gisburne and Kirkby Malghdale. On this part of his subject the author has scarcely words to do justice to his own feelings. The Rev. Dr. Collins, besides much assistance in searching for, arranging,
the first Abbots of Whalley, from a MS. communicated to the author since the publication of the history of that parish. BOOK 3rd will give a General Survey of the state of Property in Craven from the aera of Domesday Book, together with an account of the Origin, Descents, and final Union of the two great Fees of Percy and Clifford, intended as an introduction to the three following books. BOOK 4th. RIBBLESDALE, or a Survey of the respective Parishes in Craven contiguous to the Ribble, including an account of the ancient and present state of the several Churches, their Dedications, Endowments, Appropriations, Monumental Inscriptions, Incumbents, Patrons, Testamentary Burials, &c., from very early times; as also the several Manors and their Descents, Pedigrees of the principal Families, whether existing or extinct, state of their Mansions, Armorial Bearings, &c. BOOK 5th. AREDALE, containing in addition to the particulars enumerated above, an Account of the Castle and Honour of Skipton nearly from the Conquest to the present time, together with Memoirs of the noble Families of Romilly, Albemarle, and Clifford. This book will also contain an Investigation of the Sources of the Are and a Description of the Romantic Environs of Malham. BOOK 6th. WHARFDALE, containing a similar Survey to the two former; and in addition, a particular Representation of the Scenery of Bolton, Barden, Kilnsey, and the whole course of the River Wharf, upwards to its source. The collections for this work in general, and particularly for the Monastic part, have been made from personal observation, and, with a few exceptions, from original or at least from MSS. authorities. The whole will be comprised in one volume, large quarto, illustrated with numerous engravings. Price to Subscribers, £2 2s. Subscriptions received by Mr. HATCHARD, No. 190, Piccadilly, Mr. EDWARDS, Pall Mall, and Messrs. EDWARDS, Halifax, Yorkshire.
This prospectus was issued towards the end of the year 1802, but in writing the work the design was not entirely carried out as projected, as it was made to follow the more usual plan of a topographical and not of an historical arrangement] PREFACE. ix and abstracting the last-mentioned evidences, obligingly presents the coloured engraving of the East Window of Gisburn Church. Stephen Tempest, of Broughton, Esq., besides having afforded unlimited access to his family papers, generously dedicates to the work views of Bracewell and Broughton, both of which, but particularly the former, do great credit to the graver of Mr, Basire. James Hamerton, Esq., contributes two plates, one of Hellifield Peel, the other of Sallay Abbey, with which his family were .long and intimately connected. Pudsay Dawson, Esq., is entitled to the author's best acknowledgments for three curious engravings relating to the antiquities of his family at Bolton, and for the use of many curious charters and other evidences. To the Reverend William Roundell he is indebted for a view of Gledstone House; and to Danson Richardson Currer, Esq., his son, for an engraving of two charters of high antiquity, belonging to Embsay and Bolton Priory, of which the originals are in his possession. But these are trifling benefits when compared with a third, without which the present work, if it had ever been undertaken, could scarcely have been completed. These gentlemen have liberally entrusted to the author's custody the entire collections of John Richardson Currer, Esq., an immense mass of evidence, out of which the laborious compiler, had he not been prevented by death, projected to digest and complete a History of Craven. This communication, however valuable on other accounts, was chiefly so because the pedigrees of almost all the families in the district were completed down to the year 1773; by which means the dullest and most irksome part of a topographer's labour was spared to the publisher. In the same collection were transcripts of Dodsworth's invaluable fragments relating to Craven, and some excellent papers by the late J. C. Brooke, Esq., Somerset Herald, whose untimely end will long be deplored by every lover of English Antiquities. But he must not take leave of this accomplished family without the grateful remembrance of a lady and friend, whom abundant leisure and extensive knowledge have enabled to procure more information than any other person on the subject of this work, and whose good wishes for its success have- allowed her to withhold no efforts which could promote it. This benefactress * x PREFACE. is Mrs. Dorothy Richardson. The public, as well as the author, are indebted to the Reverend J. Griffith, A.M., Fellow of University College, Oxford, for the beautiful drawings of Kirkstall, Bolton Priory, Barden, Skipton, Kilnsey, Gordale, and Malham, to which, as well as to those contributed by Lord Ribblesdale, the ingenious Mr. Alken has done ample justice. The like acknowledgment is due to Mr. Fryer, a rising artist of Knares- borough, of whom it is sufficient praise to say that he drew the wild cattle at. Gisburne Park. His highly-esteemed friend the Reverend William Carr, B.D., Minister of Bolton Abbey, and late Fellow of Magdalen College. Oxford, as he first suggested the idea of the present work, has continued to urge it on through every part of its progress with a zeal and activity which merit his warmest thanks. The Rev. Thomas Sheepshanks, A.M., late Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, and Rector of Wimpole in that county, contributes the plate of Kilnsay and one view of Bolton, in order to commemorate an uninterrupted friendship of thirty years between the author and himself, which commenced at his native village of Linton. From the same friend he received many hints for the account of ancient manners in that neighbourhood. Richard Heber, of Marton, Esq., a name familiar to every scholar, has obligingly communicated all that was of importance in the evidences of his family, together with a plate of Marton Hall; and his brother, Thomas Heber, Esq., of Brazennose College, Oxford, has kindly transcribed several curious particulars from the MSS. of Dodsworth and Ashmole. It is not the least useful or pleasing circumstance attending such undertakings that they introduce their author to the acquaintance of men whose virtues and accomplishments he could otherwise have known only through the medium of general reputation. The Townley MSS.* have continued to pour out their inexhaustible stores on every part of the present subject; and the papers of the Assheton family
* Here let me for a moment, and in my own person, give way to feelings which will not easily be suppressed. My last research in that library, where I had spent so many happy hours, was in company with its late excellent and accomplished owner. So completely at that time did the vigour of his understanding and the vivacity of his spirits appear to buoy up a sinking constitution, that I little foresaw how soon I should be called to attend his remains to the tomb of his ancestors. A monument is preparing to his memory, which I doubt not will be worthy of his taste and virtues; but the best monument of Mr. Townley will be fixed in the hearts of those who knew him. " Xon quod intercedendum putem imaginibus quae marmore finguntur, sed ut vultus hominum, ita simulacra vultus fluxa ac fragilia sunt, forma mentis astema, quam tenere et exprimere non per alienam materiam et artem, sed tuis ipse moribus possis." Tacitus. PREFACE. xi
at Whalley Abbey, the inspection of which was once more obtained by the kindness of John Addison, Esq., principal agent to Lady Howe, afforded much valuable information relating to Sallay Abbey and Malham. Samuel Hailstone, Esq., of Bradford, contributes the accurate and elegant catalogue of Craven plants, a favour which is enhanced by having proceeded from a stranger, prompted by that general benevolence which men of letters always owe, not always display, to each other. Those readers who are acquainted with the Craven churches need not be apprised that this work is far from containing a complete collection of epitaphs. The author, indeed, would have had the countenance of some of his predecessors had he opened a correspondence with sextons and parish clerks for an entire assortment of those wares. But from such undistinguishing accumulations of sepulchral trash, indolence, economy, and taste alike revolted. Many inscriptions, therefore, are omitted,
"Which, though neither rare Nor ancient, will be so, preserved with care."
These are consigned to some future topographer, who, at the distance, perhaps, of two centuries, viewing the pigmies of the last generation through the mists of antiquity, may behold them dilated into giants of wisdom and virtue. Distance and indistinctness are great sources of the sublime. But to be serious modern epitaphs offend alike against piety, simplicity, and truth. This species of composition in England has at different times put on the form of a prayer, a psalm,* an epigram, and a history,t specimens of all which will appear in the following work. It is now for the most part become a tumid and undistinguishing panegyric Incrcdulus odi. It may perhaps be matter of complaint that in the ensuing work so little is copied from printed books (even from books scarce and expensive as the " Monasticon"); but the truth is that, instead of beating out and moulding anew the precious metals of antiquity which had already passed the furnace of older writers, the author deemed himself much better employed (at least
* See the Sternholdian epitaph of Sir Ingram Clifford. f Lady Pembroke's long epitaphs, but especially the Duchess of Norfolk's at Mitton, for which see the " History of Whalley." Ml PREFACE. he was employed more to his own satisfaction) in working the mines of ages hitherto unexplored, in separating the genuine ore from baser adhesions, running it for the first time into a compact and tangible mass, and impressing upon it the stamp of modern currency.*
[* The first edition of the " History of Craven " was reviewed in the British Critic for December, 1805, which pronounced it to be " full of interest, information, and amusement," adding that " in no place, nor any subject, do the writer's industry of investigation fail, or his vivacity of remark relax." In the Eclectic Review for April, 1806, it was predicted that the " History of Craven'' would not preserve that unmolested enjoyment of otium cum dignitate upon the shelf of the library, which was the usual reward of topography. It was also stated that the work was so much enlivened by picturesque descriptions, by judicious remarks, by sketches of biography, and by natural delineations of life and manners in different periods, that we may lay it aside, for the present, with little weariness, in the hope of resuming it with renewed satisfaction; and finally, that the author had succeeded in rendering the " History of Craven" one of the most complete and valuable pieces of topography that had come under the notice of the critic.] PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION,
Y the candour of an indulgent public, this work has in five years been enabled to pass through a second edition. The circumstance is not usual, at least so early, in works of a local nature; but it becomes the 2? Author to remember in how small a degree it is to be ascribed to himself, for the subject was interesting, the materials original, and the decorations numerous and beautiful. In correcting the former edition he has attended to every hint which could reasonably claim attention, and has expunged every remark which, however unintentionally on his part, may have hurt the feelings of any respectable person. But this complaisance could not be permitted to extend to contested truths. On such topics he waited for reasons, he invited conviction ; but he was not to be silenced by authority. Experience had taught him that in the genealogies of old families there are many vestiges of error, and some of fraud, which time and vanity have rendered sacred ; and rumour whispered in his ear that some topographers had been required to adopt pedigrees unexamined, as the price of a subscription or an engraving. It is, however, equally due to his own feelings and to the ancient families of this district to say that no proposal so humiliating was ever made to him, as in truth it never will be made to any man who is known to respect himself. Such baseness, indeed, while it degrades an useful and amusing department of literature, though in its lowest branch, never fails to be visited upon the receiver of these fabrications with the infamy which it deserves. On the other
[* The Second Edition of the " History of Craven" was published in 1812. It was entirely reprinted, and contained fifty-five plates, fifteen being added to those in the First Edition. The work was published in royal quarto at five guineas, and in folio at fifteen guineas. In the folio copies there are duplicate impressions of the aquatint plates coloured.] xiv PREFACE. hand, there are works which scrupulous accuracy, united with stubborn integrity, has elevated to the rank of legal evidence. Such is Dugdale's " Warwickshire" ! But, independently of all consequences, truth on the most trifling subjects (and, after all, genealogies are very trifling) is sacred for its own sake. It may some times indeed be suppressed, but never compromised. Yet, in subjects like these, why suppress it? .Of the ancestors of old families, it is no libel on human nature, or even on their posterity, to suppose that some were knaves and others were dunces ; and surely to rectify the blunders of the one, and expose the impostures of the other, while it affords some exercise to the perspicacity of the inquirer, ought, at the distance of centuries, to excite no displeasure in the descendant. Nulli gravis est percussus Achilles. Do not the representatives of the first families in the kingdom read with endurance, or even with pleasure, a faithful exposure of the crimes and follies of much nearer progenitors in the history of their country? Nay, have not the posterity of some of the most ridiculous characters in Shakspeare been seen, at the distance of less than two centuries, convulsed with laughter at the representation of their ancestors' absurdities ? For the feelings, however, of rank and ancient descent, though in some instances not connected with the exactest information, the writer has always entertained a high respect. Not so for the subjects of the next paragraph. To low-bred insolence and threatening he has paid no other attention than to reprint certain obnoxious passages verbatim. What he thought of manufactories in 1805 Jic said. In 1811 he continues to think what he then did, and therefore says it again.* But enough has been said on such a subject. The benefactors to this edition, whether in matter or ornament, are entitled to a grateful remembrance. Miss Currer, consistently with the general liberality of her conduct in the application of a large fortune, has contributed plates of Eshton and Kildwick Halls. The Rev. William Roundell has kindly added an aquatinta engraving of Gledstone House ; the Rev. William Carr, a beautiful view of the west front of the abbey church at Bolton ; and Stephen Tempest, Esq., among other favours, a view of the new front of Broughton Hall. Mrs. Richardson has exerted her wonted activity and intelligence in
[* Vide pp. 187 and 200 of this third edition.] PREFACE. XV collecting and communicating many particulars relating to the caves in Craven, and to St. Hellen's Crosses ; while Mr. Carr, above mentioned, the unshaken friend of the author and his family, by diligent researches among the Evidences of the Cliffords at Londesborough, has brought to light by far the most numerous and valuable additions to this volume. The last, but not least, honourable place in this catalogue belongs to the dead. It is a melancholy, yet it ought to be an improving, reflection, that in work after work, at no great distance of time, the Author has still had to deplore the loss of some friend to whose assistance it was indebted, or for whose amuse ment it was intended. And now, scarcely had Mr. Beaumont, whose latest correspondence with him was on the subject of the present volume, received from him a public testimony of grateful friendship,* when he also was no more. On this occasion the writer waited till those who stood nearer, or were more obliged than himself, had time to discover that talents for panegyric are best directed to living objects. This silence, however, far better than ill-judged flattery, has left space for fact and truth. Let it now, therefore, be told, without offence, that his peculiarities were great and his prejudices strong. He had a clear understanding and a tenacious memory, which, after his return from Italy, were devoted principally to the study of English history and antiquities. Inheriting a fine estate, and having never married, he became, through the ardour of this pursuit, a hermit in a palace ; for such was his house at Whitley. At his other mansion of Little Mitton, in which he took great delight, he was wont to say that he contended with the owls for possession. His apartments were not merely strewed but piled, with books and papers of his own transcribing. No man living had taken the same pains with Dodsworth's MSS., or was so well qualified to make an index to that confused but valuable collection. As a magistrate, he was skilful and upright, but very irascible, and altogether irreconcilable to every thing which he thought improper in the conduct of his brethren. He was a warm and faithful friend, and more especially a literary friend, but subject to fits of resentment, which, if he thought well of the objects of them on the whole, were easily appeased. To his indigent acquaintance the large sums which he professed to lend were eventually given. His liberality to his immediate relatives knew no bound but the extent of his means, and scarcely even that. With an income of
* In the Dedication to the " Life and Correspondence of Sir George Radcliffe." -XVI PREFACE. little less than io,ooo/. per annum, and no personal expense (for he was remarkably inattentive both to his own comforts and to external appearance), his estate was left somewhat in debt. He had all the pride of ancient descent, and with it a high sense of honour, which, together with his good understanding, would not permit him to be either duped or flattered by the ascription of alliances to which he had no claim. He knew and despised all the tricks of pedigree- mongers ; and when some herald, whom he employed to marshal the bearings of his family had officiously inserted that of the Viscounts and Barons Beaumont, he struck the quartering out with his own hand, saying to the writer of the present article, "These are honourable bearings, but they belong not to me." His eye, when an object could be brought within its short focus, was perfectly microscopical; and he was perhaps the best reader of ancient charters in his time. For the same reason he was an excellent judge of Forgeries. Such were the mixed qualities, such the head and heart, of this singular man, delineated at a distance of time sufficient to allow the first feelings of surviving friendship to cool; without partiality, therefore, but not without affection. He died Nov. 22, 1810, aged 61, and was interred in the family chapel within the church of Kirk Heaton. PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION.
R. WHITAKER'S "HISTORY OF CRAVEN" being a Work much esteemed and sought after, and having become so scarce that a small- paper copy of the second edition in fair order could not be procured for less than about eight guineas, Mr. Dodgson, having purchased the original copper plates, decided to republish the work ; he did me the honour to consult me upon the subject, and at his request I undertook to edit it. Every endeavour has been made to verify the statements in the original work, and from personal examination of the various localities, and also from numerous sources, to add much additional matter, and to correct errors in the transcription of epitaphs, &c. Great attention has been paid to the heraldry and genealogy, particularly of that of the Clifford family; and throughout the district all heraldry and monumental inscriptions in the churches have been copied, and are here printed. The great Clifford picture at Appleby Castle, the original of the damaged picture formerly in .Skipton Castle, has been very fully described, as also have the Clifford monuments in Appleby Church. Skipton Castle has been surveyed, and a plan is for the first time published. Plans of Salley and Kirkstall Abbeys are also introduced, and that of Bolton Abbey has been corrected, and recent discoveries added. Many additional pedigrees are given, and so far as has been found possible, those printed by Dr. Whitaker have been continued to the present time. The armorial bearings of each family have been engraved, chiefly from drawings by Mr. J. H. Metcalfe. The Institution Books at York and Ripon have been searched, and the lists of rectors and vicars corrected and continued to the present year. The text of the second edition has been strictly followed, and all new matter defined by being placed within brackets [ ]; the only cases in which alterations have been made without attention being called are when inscriptions had been erroneously printed and are here corrected. Irrespective of the work in the pedigrees, an idea can be formed of the quantity of new matter introduced, from the fact that the historical portion of the last edition occupied only 507 pages, whilst in this it fills 592 pages, notwithstanding that the additions and a large portion of the charters, letters, &c., are printed in a small type. xvi ii PREFACE.
It should be remarked that information respecting the present state of the towns and manufactures must not be sought for here, as it can be obtained in any good Gazeteer. \Yith the exception of one plate (that of the armorial window at Gisburne Park), the whole of those in the edition of 1812 are reproduced, and the following have been added: The Interior of Mitton Church, Plans of Salley and Kirkstall Abbeys, Skipton Castle, and the Portrait of General Lambert, which was kindly presented by S. M. Milne, Esq., of Calverley House. There are also many woodcuts of views and antiquities, almost all of which are engraved by Messrs. R. & E. Taylor of London, or Mr. R. W. Utting. Lieut.-Col. Nowell presents the views of Netherside Hall and Netherside Glen, and J. W. Tottie, Esq., that of Coniston Hall. I am indebted to many friends for assistance during the progress of the work, amongst them the following must be specially mentioned : Edward Hailstone, Esq., F.S.A., &c., allowed me free access to the invaluable collection of Yorkshire Works in his library at Walton Hall; Wyatt Papworth, Esq., made many searches for me at the British Museum ; S. M. Milne, Esq., of Calverley House, accompanied me in the examination of the greater part of the district, and rendered me much valuable assistance; Ralph Assheton, Esq., M.P., of Downham Hall, the Rev. Canon Boyd, of Arncliffe, the Rev. J. A. Wilson, of Bolton by Bolland, the Rev. C. Bellairs, of Bolton Abbey, and many others, have furnished me with much local information, to all of whom I beg here to tender my thanks. In order to render the work capable of easy reference, a voluminous index has been provided. Mr. M Jail's Chapter on the Geology, Natural History, and Pre-Historic Antiquities of the district will be found a valuable contribution, and has the advantage of being illustrated with an entirely new Geological Map and Section. In conclusion, no expense has been spared in the paper, printing, engraving, and binding (and great pains have been taken in correcting the sheets for the press to avoid errors) ; Messrs. Cassell Petter & Galpin who publish the work in London for Mr. Dodgson, are also the printers. \Ve therefore trust that our united efforts will have produced a work which will be satisfactory to the subscribers : if so, the labour and anxiety will not have been endured in vain. fM.h, lit J/r/Y/-, 1878. ALFRED W. MORANT. LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS TO THIS THIRD EDITION.
HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN, ROVAL LIBRARY, WINDSOR. His GRACE THE DUKE OF NORFOLK, EARL MARSHAL, Anmdel Castle. His GRACE THE DUKE OF BEDFORD, K.G., Woburn Abbey. His GRACE THE DUKE OF CLEVELAND, K.G., 17, St. James's Square, London. His GRACE THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE, K.G., Chats-worth. THE MOST NOBLE THE MARQUIS OF RIPON, K.G., Studley. THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL BEAUCHAMP, Belgrade Square, London. THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF DARTMOUTH, Patshull. THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF EFFINGHAM, 57, Eaton Place, London. THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL FITZWILLIAM, K.G., Wentworth. THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF WHARNCLIFFE, Worthy Hall. THE RIGHT HON. LORD RIBBLESDALE, Gisburne Park. THE RIGHT HON. LORD HALIFAX, Hickleton Hall, Doncaster. THE RIGHT HON. LORD HOUGHTON, Fryston Hall. THE RIGHT REV. THE LORD BISHOP OF RIPON, The Palace, Ripon. THE RIGHT REV. BISHOP CORNTHWAITE, Springfield House, Leeds. SIR JOHN RAMSDEN, BART., Byram Hall. SIR HENRY J. TUFTON, BART., Ashford, Kent. SIR MATTHEW WILSON, BART., M.P., Eshton Hall. THE RIGHT HON. R. A. CROSS, M.P., Eccles Riggs, Broughton-in-Furness. RALPH ASSHETON, ESQ., M.P., Downham Hall, Clitheroe. JOHN BARRAN, ESQ., M.P., Chapel-Allerton. H. W. RIPLEY, ESQ., M.P., Rawdon, Bradford. JOHN WHITWELL, ESQ., M.P., Kendall. BASIL T. WOODD, ESQ., M.P., Conyngham Hall, Knaresborough.
Abbey, F. F., Esq., Market Street, Huddersfield. Baker, Charles, Esq., F.S.A., n, Sackville Street, London. Aked, Robert, Esq., Knowle Spring House, Keighley. Bairstow, Thomas, Esq., Bridge House, Steeton, via Leeds. Aldam, W., Esq., Frickley Hall, near Doncaster. Balme, E. B. W., Esq., Cote Wall, Mirfield. Allbutt, T. Clifford, Esq., M.D., Virginia Road, Leeds. Bannister, Duke, Esq., Preston. Anderton, F. W., Esq., Bolton Royd, Manningham. Barber, Fairless, Esq., F.S.A., Castle Hill, Rastrick, Brig- Armitage, Richard, Esq., 17, Albermarle Crescent, Scar- house. borough. Baron, Mr. George, Silsden. Armytage, G. J., Esq., F.S.A., Clifton, Brighouse. Barwick, J. M., Esq., Low Hall, Yeadon, near Leeds. Arnold, H., Esq., Blackley, Manchester. Battle, Mr. F., Manchester. Aspinall, Rev. G. E., Barwick-in-Elmete, near Leeds. Beaumont, T. M., Esq., M.D., Knaresborough. Atkinson, J., Esq., Stack House, Settle. Beecroft, Wm., Esq., East Grove, Keighley. Bedford, Benjamin, Esq., Keighley. Bailey, J. B., Esq., Hanover Street, Keighley. Bell, Messrs. T. & A., Lancaster. Bailey, J. E., Esq., F.S.A., Stretford, Manchester. Berry, J. G., Esq., Broomfield, Fixby, near Huddersfield. Bailey, Richard, Esq., York Street, Clithero. Beverley, Albert, Esq., 8, Westfield Terrace, Scarborough. Bain, Mr. James, I, Haymarket, London. Binns, W., Esq., 22, Duckworth Lane, Bradford. Baines, Edward, Esq., St. Ann's Hill, Burley, Leeds. Birchall, Edward, Esq., Inglemoor, Leeds. LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS.
Blackburn Free L; K-nry, Blackburn. Dacre, Bentley, Esq., Otley. Bradford. Blakesley, G. H., l-. ?q., 13, Old Buildings, Lincoln's Inn, Dale, John & Co., Messrs., Daniel, W. T. S., Esq., Q.C., Thorlby House, Skipton. London. Halifax. Illeasdell, Rev. John, B.A., Asiuon-under-Lyme. Davis, J. W., Esq., Chevinedge, llolton, John, Esq., SouthtieU, Blackburn. Davy, John, Esq., Skipton. Rectory, Clerkenwell, London. Bottomley, James, Esq.. Buttersh.uv, near Bradford. Dawson, Rev. W., St. John's Henry, Esq., Clough Hall, Huddersfield. Boitomley, John, Esq., Crossbills, via Leeds. Dewhurst, Skipton. Bottomley, Thomas, Esq., Crosshills, T'/Whitby. Furness, W., Esq., 39, Chester Street, Manchester. Childe, Rowland, Esq., Westgate, \Vakefield. Christie, Hector, Esq., Longclii'f Place, Settle. Garnett, William, Esq., Quernmore Park, Lancaster. Clarkson, \V., Esq., Silsden. Garrett, Rev. \V. S., Crake Hall, Bedale. Clay, J. \V., Esq., 16, Warwick Place, Leeds. Gaskell, C. Milnes, Esq., Thornes House, Wakefield. Clay, Arthur Travis, Esq., R.istrick, near Brighouse. Gleave, J. S., Esq., Manchester. Clcmence, John L., Esq., Lowestoft, Suffolk. Gledhill, John, Esq., Keighley. Clough, W., Esq., Steeton, near Leeds. Goodall, Edwin, Esq., Perth House, Lightcliffe. Cokayne. G. E., Esq., The College of Arms, London, E.G. Graeme, Captain A. J., R.N., Fonthill, Shaldon, Teignmouth. Coddin^'ton, Richard, Esq., Blackburn. Gratrix, Samuel, Esq., Alport Town, Manchester. Coddington, William, Esq., Spring Mount, Blackburn. Gray, W., Esq., Under Sheriff, York. Cole, James, Esq., 346, Wakeficld Road, Bradford. Green, James, Esq., Crosshills, via Leeds. Collyer, Rev. Robert, Chicago, U.S.A. Guest, John, Esq., F.S.A., Moorgate Grange, Rotherham. Co-operative Store, Bacup. Copperthwaite, W. C., Esq., The Lodge, Malton. Hailstone, E., Esq., F.S.A., Walton Hall, Wakefield. Cordingley. J. R., Esq., 101, Thornton Road, Bradford. Hainsworth, Lewis, Esq., u8, Bowling Old Lane, Bradford. Cornish, Mr. J. E., 33, Piccadilly, Manchester. Hall, John, Esq., Hambleton House, Shadwell, Leeds. Coulthurst, J., Esq., Gargrave House, Gargrave. Hammond, E. W., Esq., Horton Road, Bradford. Cowgill, Win., Esq., Piece Hall Yard, Bradford. Hanby, Mr. Richard, Chetham Library, Hunt's Bank, Man Cowling, Mr. W., Silsden. chester. Cruig, J. W., Esq., M.D., Park Road, Bingley. Harrison, W., Esq., F.S.A., Samlesbury Old Hall, near Craven, Edward, Esq., 7, Blenheim Mount, Bradford. Preston. Craven, John. Esq., Steeton. Harrogan, Mr. Thomas, Eastby. Craven, William, Esq., Clapton Lodge, Halifax. Hartley, L. L., Esq., St. Leonards, Sussex. Craven, John, Esq., Steeton Hall. Hartley, Mark, Esq., Colne. Critchley, Mr. T. J., Ilkley. Hartley, J. R., Esq.. Otley. LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. xxi
Hargreaves, John, Esq., Maiden Erlegh, Reading. Mawson, W., Esq., Skipton. Hartley, James, Esq., Settle. Mechanics' Institute, Leeds. Hatchard, Messrs., 187, Piccadilly, London, W. Mellor, David, Esq., Holling Mount, Bradford. Hayes, Mr. Thomas, Cross Street, Manchester. Merrall, Michael, Esq., Law House, Haworth, near Keighley. Healey, C. E. H. Chadwyck, Esq., 7, New Square, Lincoln's Mercer, Rev. Edward, Eccleshill Vicarage, Leeds. Inn. Metcalfe, J. H., Esq., 28, Well Walk, Hampstead, London. Heaton, J. D., Esq., M.D., Claremont, Leeds. Micklethwaite, J. T., Esq., F.S.A., 6, Delahay Street, Great Hebden, Rev. John, M.A., Hamilton, Canada. George Street, London. Henderson, Captain, Eshton -House, Gargrave. Micklethwait, Richard, Esq., Ardsley House, Barnsley. Hepper, John, Esq., Clareville, Headingley, near Leeds. Middleton, John, Esq., Westholme, Cheltenham. Hewitt, John, Esq., Harris Street, Bradford. Middleton, J. W., Esq., Chapel Allerton, Leeds. 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M., Esq., Church Hill House, Handsworth, Horsfall, John, Esq., Greenhill, Crossbills. Birmingham. Horsfall, W. C., Esq., 6, Victor Road, Manningham, Bradford. Murgatroyd, Wm., Esq., u8, Bolton Road, Bradford. Hovenden, R., Esq., Heathcote Park Hill, Croydon. Howell, Mr. Edward, Church Street, Liverpool. Naylor, John B., Esq., Priest Thorpe Road, Bingley. Howgate, Mr. Wm., 22, Park Row, Leeds. Naylor, W., Esq., East Grove, Keighley. Hudson, Mr. Chris., Church Street, Ilkley. Neill, Alexander, Esq., Bradford. Hudson, John, Esq., Bridge Street, Keighley. Nelson, Edwin, Esq., Bradford. Nelson, G. H., Esq., Denison Hall, Leeds. Illingworth, John, Esq., 25, York Place, Harrogate. Nelson, T. Walker, Esq., Lymm, Cheshire. Illingworth, Thos., Esq., Frizinghall, Bradford. Nevin, Rev. Canon, Madge Croft, Mirfield. Ingham, Benjamin, Esq., Eastbrook, Bradford. Norfolk and Norwich Literary Institution. Ingleby, Christopher, Esq., Harden Cottage, Clapham. Northrop, F., Esq., Embsay, via Skipton. Iveson, W. B., Esq., The Knowl, Mirfield. Nowell, Lieut.-Col., Netherside, Skipton. Nussey, S. L., Esq., Potternewton, near Leeds. Jessopp, Dr. A., The School House, Norwich. Jowett, J. H. A., Esq., Bolton Villas, near Bradford. Openshaw, Rev. Thos., M.A., Kentisbury Rectory, Barn- Jowett, J. A., Esq., Grove House, Bolton, Bradford. staple. Oxley, Henry, Esq., Weetwood, near Leeds. Kell, Robert, Esq., Bradford. Oxley, J. W., Esq., Weetwood, near Leeds. Kendall, Henry, Esq., Micklefield, Rawdon. Kidd, Rev. P. C., Skipton. Papworth, Wyatt, Esq., F.R.I.B.A., 33, Bloomsbury Street. Killick, Henry Fison, Esq., Rawdon, near Leeds. Bedford Square, London. Kitson, James, Esq., Elmete Hall, Leeds. Parker, R! F., Esq., Skipton. Knowles, Geo., Esq., Baildon. Parkinson, Rev. Thomas, North Otterington Vicarage, North- allerton. Laycock, Mr. John, High Street, Skipton. Pearce, J. B., Esq., Surrey Street, Norwich. Laycock, T. B., Esq., Airworth, Keighley. Pearse, Mr. P., Warrington. 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PAGE INTRODUCTION ...... i PARISH OF MITTON ... 20 SLADEBURNE ... .36 GISBURNE . .... 44 BERNOLDSWICK . • • 75 MARTON . . . .89 ,, BRACEWELL . . 96 BROUGHTON . . 104 THORNTON . . . . .117 BOLTON JUXTA BoWLAND . .125 LONG PRESTON . . . 142
GlGGLESWICK . . . . .158
HORTON IN RlBBLESDALE . 182
BlNGLEY . . 189
KlGHLEY 200
KlLDWICK ... . 207 CARLTON . . .222 GARGRAVE . . . 229 KIRKBY MALGHDALE . . 244 ILKLEY ...... 278 ADDINGHAM .... 291 SKIPTON ... . 294 BURNSAL ... . 498 LINTON . • • S36 ,, KETTLEWELL .... 561 „ ARNCLIFFE ...... 571
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Introduction, p. 9.—The Deanery of Craven was made part of the new diocese of Ripon by Order of Council dated October 5th, 1836. _____
P. 47.—NOTES ON THE STAINED GLASS IN GISBURNE CHURCH, CO. YORK, 1876.
BY RALPH ASSHETON, ESQ., M.P., OF DOWNHAM HALL.
IN 1869 this church was repaired, and most of the windows renewed. At that time there were some fragments of stained glass in the Middop Chapel, and in a window in the north aisle. These fragments seem to have been of the decorated period of glass painting, say about 1350. There was also in the east window some painted glass. This window was not touched in 1869, but in 1872 it was removed, and anew window (by Heaton, Butler and Baines) was put in its place by Mrs. Rooke (who died 1873), the daughter of the first Lord Ribblesdale, and the wife suc cessively of Mr. Day, Mr. John Fleming Parker, and Mr. Rooke, in memory of her second husband and her children by him. The churchwardens gave me leave to put together the remains of the old east window, and the fragments from other parts of the church, so far'as they could be made available, and fill with them one of the small south windows. After taking the glass to pieces, I found that the figure of S. John, from the east window, was capable of being put into something like its (probable) original form, and that there would still be sufficient glass remaining to fill the south window, and, with this addition, I carried out the original intentions of the churchwardens—placing the figure of S. John in the centre light of one of the north windows, and the rest of the glass—as far as it would work in— in one of the south windows, in October last. No doubt the window suffered somewhat from stones between the date of Whitaker's picture in 180? and 1872 ; still it is clear that his drawing was never very accurate, and it is quite evident that the figures were never anything like as perfect since their last fixing in the east window, as his artist depicts them to have been, and the same remark will apply to the canopy work and other parts of the window. The light nearest the north (No. i) contained but a small portion of stained glass, the principal feature being the upper part of an angel (the face all broken) holding a coat of arms, which was— (1) " Ermine on afesse sable 3 mullets or " (Lister). (2) " Gules a chevron argent, between 3 mullets and in chief two bird-bolts or" (Bolton). (3) " Argent a water bouget between ^fleurs-de-lis sable, a mullet for difference " (Banister). (4) "Argent on a bend sable 3 roses or" (Clayton), impaling .... the impalement is white glass of considerable age, and Whitaker's draughtsman must have imagined the rampant lion in his drawing. This coat has not been replaced in the church, but is in Lord Ribblesdale's possession. It is not one of the same set as those in the other lights of the window, but is of an older date. Light (No. 2) had an angel holding a coat of arms, " Gules 3 lucies argent" (Lucy), and beneath a figure of the Virgin Mary—face very much broken, and the lower parts of the figure much shattered. Light (No. 3)—the centre—an angel holding a coat of arms, " Barry of six or and -vert a bend gules " (Poynings), and beneath a figure of S. Andrew much broken, and the face quite gone. I could not hear of his ever having had a face in living memory. Light (No. 4), an angel holding a coat of arms, "Argent a lion rampant azure" (Louvain), and beneath a figure of S. John without a forehead, or glory, and the robes much broken. Light (No. 5) had only a few scraps of coloured glass ; the crest which Whitaker puts here was in another part of the church, and there was no trace of a shield. Of this window, the figure of S. John, with a new forehead, hair and glory, is now placed in one of the north windows ; and the three angels holding coats of arms, with as much of the canopy work as was tolerably perfect, have been placed in a south window ; with S. Andrew's mitre and a portion of his cross (much of the cross was wanting), also a coat of arms ADDENDA. which was in another window, viz., •'Argent a wlfs head erased between 3 bugle horns j,:/>/<•," which Whitaker calls " Lowde,'' but which Sir Albert Woods (Garter Kin^ of Arms) pronounces as undoubtedly " Bradford." The account of the jjlass as given by Dr. Whitaker [3 not very clear, and partly so because there is some confusion as to what he says himself, and what he quotes from Dodsworth. The coat of arms, "•Argent 5 fusils voided in cross, a chief .•r»::/;<-," is not now in existence, neither is there any of the inscription left, excepting some few letters on some of the glass from the aisle windows. I do not understand whether the inscriptions given at page 34, lines 4 and 5, and lines 13 and 14, of the second edition, are given on Dodswortlvs authority or Whitaker's; but I presume the former, as the latter does not show any inscriptions in his picture. The quarterly coat, stated to have been (but query when ?) in the north choir window, has disappeared. Whitaker's surprise that Dodsworth should have omitted to mention the coats of Louvain, Lucy, and Poynings, can be thus accounted for, to my mind, viz., that when Dodsworth saw the church in 1621, the window containing these coats of arms had not yet been placed in the church. A careful examination of what I may term the Percy Window, shows that it was never made for the position from which it was last removed—for two reasons—ist, the figures were obviously arranged for lights considerably wider than the lights of the east window at Gisburne ; 2nd, the figures can never have been designed for the relative positions in which we found them. The figure of the Virgin in No. 2 light, looking inwards, with tears in her eyes, and the figure of S. John, in light No. 4, also crying and looking inwards, suggest that there should be a figure of the Crucifixion between them, instead of a figure of S. Andrew, in full dress, with a mitre on, and nothing about him to suggest weeping. 1 have some doubt as to the three large figures having been originally part of the same window as the angels holding the coats of arms ; but have little doubt that the glass, as we saw it, was the remains of a window or windows designed for larger tracery, and that it was patched up, as best they could, and placed in the church at some time subsequent to Dodsworth's visit in 1621. The glass in the Percy Window was perpendicular in style, and much younger than the fragments from other parts of the church.
P. 52.—NOTES ABOUT THE WILD WHITE CATTLE UNTIL LATELY AT GISBURNE.
I1Y RALPH ASSHETON, ESQ., M.P., OF DOWN HAM HALL.
IN 1874 the Rev. John Storer, who was preparing a work on the wild herds of Great Britain, wrote and asked me to collect what information there was to be had about the Gisburne herd. He told me of a herd with many similar characteristics which existed at Middleton, co. Lane., until about 1760, when Lord Suffield, who had married one of the heiresses of Assheton of Middleton, removed the herd to his own place at Gunton, whence they were moved-(cir. 1800) to Blickling Hall, Norfolk, where they now are, and are owned by Constance, Marchioness of Lothian. Mr. Storer's theory is that both the Gisburne herd and the Middleton herd came from the Abbots of Whalley, co. Lancaster, through the Asshetons. The result of my inquiries was as follows :— The Gisburne wild cattle were a white, hornless breed, with white hoofs, but Dr. Whitaker is wrong in saying their noses were black—as in a copy of his " Craven" now at Gisburne, there is a note in the writing of the first Lord Ribblesdale, to say, " Their noses are never black, but most usually red or brown." With this exception the description of the cattle, and the pictures in Whitaker, seem to be accurate, excepting that the painter has put the cattle on the banks of Malliam Tarn, then owned by the Listers, and I believe they were always kept at (iisburne. The cattle were quite tame, though called "wild cattle," and were housed in winter, and milked, &c., like domestic cattle. They were between a shorthorn and a. West Highland Scot in size. Their beef was excellent, but there was no tallow, the fat and the lean being in alternate layers. Mr. Chew, Lord Ribblesdale's agent, tells me that he never remembers there being above seven or eight of these cattle alive at a time. Some attempts to cross the herd with that of Mr. Leigh, of Lymm, co. Chester, were made, but in vain, and the herd dwindled down until 1859, when the three survivors were killed. The last bull furnished 742 Ibs of beef, besides scraps and offal. As to the source from which they came to Gisburne, I find the tradition in Gisburne is, that they came from Whalley, and followed a band of music from thence ! The tradition in Whalley is that the Abbots of Whalley used to have these cattle in the Lord's Park at Whalley, and that when the Asshetons ceased to live at Whalley, the herd was divided, and some went to the Listers, at Gisburne, but the tradition as to the fate of the other part is lost. This is perhaps not actual proof that Mr. Storer's theory is correct, but it leaves no doubt in my mind that when Sir John A-?heton, last baronet of Whalley, died (or possibly in his lifetime), some of the white cattle in the Lord's Park Whalley, went to the Listers, and the rest with his sister Ann, who had married her kinsman, Sir Ralph Assheton, Bart., of Middloton. to that place, and so to Lord Suffield and Lady Lothian. Sir John, it is to be remembered, left all the property .it his disposal to the Listers, into whose family he married. There is an excellent picture of a white Gisburne bull, by Ward, R.A., now doing duty as a sign to a public-house in ADDENDA.
Gisburne. Mr. Dixon Robinson, of Clitheroe Castle, has photographs of the last three survivors ; the head of the last bull is stuffed, and hangs in the kitchen at Gisburne Park, and there is a stuffed cow of the breed in the Museum of Owen's College, Manchester; and these, with the pictures in Whitaker's " Craven," are all the remains of the Gisburne herd that I could hear of.
P. 436.—SYLVESTER PETYT'S CHARITY AT SKIPTON.
CHANCERY DIVISION, DEC. I, 1877.—THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. RYDER AND OTHERS. THIS case came before the court on a summons adjourned from Chambers taken out by the defendants, the trustees of Sylvester Petyt's Charity, for liberty to distribute the income of the funds, the subject of the charity, in accordance with the principle or mode of distribution heretofore in use. By his will, dated the 3rd May, 1719, Sylvester Petyt gave, among other sums, £100 for the purchase of lands in Skipton, the rents to be applied for buying coals and other necessaries for the well- keeping of the library erected by the testator in the Parish Church of Skipton ; ,£300 for a house in or near Storiths or Hazlewood, fit for a house or school-house ; further provision was also made for the education of poor children of Skipton, Bolton Brigg, Beamsley, Storiths, Hazlewood, and Deerstones. Various schemes had been suggested by the Attorney- General, and carried out, by which sums of money had been distributed to different poor persons; and the scheme now before the court to which the defendants objected proposed that the distribution of the income now made to the poor relations of the testator should continue, but that the portion of the income which the defendants have been in the habit of distributing to such objects of charity as they deem fit should be reduced to ^250 for the first year, ^125 for the second year, and then entirely cease. The scheme of the Attorney-General also provided for the keeping of the library, the granting of exhibition and school prizes, and the re'sidue of the income to be applied towards the maintenance of a middle school for girls at or near Skipton, the relations of the testator having the preference for the head of such school and for exhibitions. Mr. Darby, Q.C., and Mr. Vaughan Hawkins appeared for the Attorney-General ; Mr. Chitty, Q.C., and Mr. F. A. Lewin for the defendants. His lordship approved of the scheme.
P. 517.—SEPULCHRAL BARROW AT RYLSTONE. CANON GREENWELL remarks* that "Craven abounds in remains of pre-historic times. Weapons and implements of stone and bronze have occurred at or near Rylstone, and besides the sepulchral mound next to be described, barrows still exist in the neighbourhood. Some of these '• yet remain unopened, but the greater number have been more or less destroyed by curiosity-hunters, without any note of their construction or contents having been preserved." There are also many hill-terraces, supposed by Canon Greenwell.to be "clearly of artificial origin.'' A very interesting barrow was opened by Canon Greenwell at Scale House, near Rylstone. It had been previously dug into, and the contents were disturbed and injured in consequence. The barrow was thirty feet in diameter, and five feet high. It was made of clay, and was encircled by a shallow trench. "Immediately beneath the surface of the barrow, at the centre, there was a layer of flat stones, about six feet in diameter, carefully arranged. Under these stones the clay was firmly compacted, and rested upon a thin stratum of dark-coloured earthy matter, which was fully charged with charcoal. Beneath this, again, was a layer of finer clay, or rather of clay which appeared to have undergone a process of tempering. Below this finer clay, and carefully imbedded in it, was an oaken coffin laid upon clay, and to some extent supported by a few stones, the whole being placed in a slight hollow sunk below the surface of the ground. The coffin was formed of the trunk of an oak-tree split in two, and then hollowed out. It was 7£ ft. long and i ft. 11 in. wide ; the trunk had been cut off at each end, and then partially rounded, but on the outside no attempt at squaring or other workmanship had interfered with the natural surface of the timber. The hollow within was 6 ft. 4 in. long and I ft. wide, roughly hewn out, and still showing the marks of the tool employed; the ends inside were finished off square. It was not possible to make out the precise nature of the tool which had been employed, but the appearances warranted the conclusion that it had been a narrow-edged metal implement. ' The coffin was very much broken, in consequence of the disturbance before-mentioned. It was, however, still sufficiently entire to allow its arrangement to be seen. It was laid north and south, having the thicker end—where the head of the enclosed body had no doubt been placed—to the south. The body had entirely gone to decay, and nothing was observed which might have formed a constituent part of it except an unctuous whitish substance, which chemical analysis has proved to be of animal origin. The corpse had been enveloped in a woollen fabric, enough of which remained to show
* " British Barrows." Clarendon Press, Oxford. 8vo. 1877. Pp. 374^377. ADDENDA. that it had reached from head to foot. It was very rotten, and partly on that account, and partly by reason of the infiltration of earth which had found its way into the coffin through the breakage occurring when the barrow was first opened, and which had become mixed up with the cloth, it was impossible to recover any but small pieces of it, or to prove whether the body had been laid in the grave in its ordinary dress, or simply wrapped in a shroud. It is on the whole probable that in this case as in those of some tree-burials discovered in Denmark, the person had been interred in the dress worn by him in daily life, though perhaps it may be alleged that the absence of anything like a button or other fastening is rather against that view. The material is now of a dark brown colour, due, most likely, to the tannin in the oak of the coffin ; whilst to the acid generated in the decaying wood, and set free by the percolation of water, is perhaps to be attributed the total disappearance of the bones. There was nothing found in the coffin besides the woollen stuff ; nor, with the exception of pieces of charcoal and some burnt earth, was anything met with foreign to the ordinary material of the rest of the barrow. '• In the absence of any associated articles in the coffin, or of potsherds or flints in the mound itself, it is difficult to assign a precise date or period to this remarkable burial. But if we take the general shape and construction of the barrow into consideration, as also the encircling ditch, the presence of charcoal and other indications of burning, I see no reason for hesitating to refer it to the people whose usual custom it was to place the body of the dead person in a stone cist or in a grave within the barrow ; merely supposing that in this and in a few other instances they departed from their ordinary practice in favour of a wooden receptacle. And when we compare this burial with some others found in this country, and with those which have occurred in Denmark, we can further have little doubt about attributing it to the time when bronze was in use for weapons and implements. The mode of interment in the hollowed trunk of a tree placed within a barrow is no doubt rare, although burials in cleft and hollowed trees placed in the ground without any superincumbent grave-mound are not so uncommon ; many of these, however, arc not to be referred to a very early period, and, indeed, probably belong to n time several centuries after the Christian era.'
THE engravings of the figures in the Clifford Picture, given in the former editions, are so incorrect that they have not been reproduced. A woodcut diagram showing the whole picture is given instead.
NOTE.—The references, "Kirkbys Inquest," "Knights' Fees," and "Nomina Villarum," are to " Kirkby's Inquest: or, a Survey of the county of York, taken by John de Kirkby in the I3th Edward I., 1284-5 ;" "The Inquisitions of Knights' Fees, taken in the 3lst Edward I., 1302-3"; and the " Xomina Villarum: or, Return of the Cities, Boroughs, and Townships, taken in the gth Kdward II., 1315-16." The references are taken from these rolls, edited by R. H. Skaife, and published by the Surtces Society in 1867.
ERRATA.
I'age 44. Percy pedigree, fifth generation from the bottom. The coat of Poynings is not nmv in the east window at Gisburne Church. Page 50, line 24. Midhope no longer belongs to ihe Kayes, they sold it about 1856 to -Mr. Bracewell. Page 54. In the pedigree of Lister, Lord Ribblesdale. Katharine, the wife of Thomas Lister, who died in 1745, was the daughter of Mr Ralph Assheton, of MiJJ.'eh'n. and not of \Vhalley Abbey. In Lambert pedigree, page 256. On the right side, just above the description of the arms of the Baron of Cavan, for "Craven," read "C.iv.in." In ihe --ixth generation from the bottom, Matthew Atkinson married Cassandra, not Cassandom Morley. In the third ijeneration from the bottom, for •• Melthwold Hall," read " Methwold Hall." I'.ige nSr, line 16 from the bottom. The word Carnaby should be read before crest on line 17.
SHEWING THE BOUNDARIES OF THE PARISHES COMPRISING THEDEANERY OF CRAVEN. m TiHE DIOCESE OF RIPON,