228 BUCKROSE DIVISION. TOWNSHIP. Postal address, Southburn, . Wall Letter Box cleared at 4-15 p.m. The nearest Money Order and Telegraph Office is at Driffield. Bennett Rev. Wm., B.A., vicar of Staveley Harold Hornby, Southburn house Denny Charles, Stationmaster Carriers. Farmers. J ohnson J ames. (and gardener), to Driffield on Botterill Arthur; h -on-the-Wolds Thursday Foster Alfred, Manor house Wilson Thomas, to Driffield on Thursday TIBTHORPE TOWNSHIP. -Postal address, Tibthorpe, Kirkburn, Driffield. Mails arrive at 9-0 a.m., and are despatched at 3-45 p.m. The nearest Money Order and Telegraph Office is at Driffield. Mrs. Mary Walker, receiver. Binnington Henry, blacksmith Gray Thomas Botham Richard, bricklayer Harrison John, Park house Foster Francis, tailor Harrison ,Villiam Harrison George, shoemaker Piercy William, Tibthorpe wold Harrison John, cowkeeper Staveley Simpson, Eastlands Hotham Mrs. Ann, tobacco dealer Woodall Joseph, farm bailiff Redshaw Mrs. Sarah Ann, dressmaker Shepherdson Edward, joiner Carriers. Walker Arthur, joiner Watson Thomas, grocer WaIton Thomas, to Driffield on Thursday Wood Geo. Wm., to on Saturday, and Farmers. to Driffield on Thursday Clark James Henry, Tibthorpe house

KIRKHAM PAI{ISH. Wapentake and Petty Sessional Division of Buckrose-County Council Electoral Division of Leavening-Poor Law Union and County Court District of Malton. Kirkham, containing 272 acres of land, situated on the left bank of the Derwent, was formerly an extra-parochial liberty, but now a parish for all rating purposes. There are seven houses in the parish, but no church. On the opposite side of the river is Kirkham Abbey station, on the York and Scarborough branch of the North-Eastern Railway. The soil is clay and sand, the subsoil clay. Rateable value, £370; population (1891), 40. Here, in a beautifully-wooded spot by the river, stand the ruins of Kirkham Priory, the foundation of which had a very pathetic origin. Soon after the Oon­ quest, Waiter L'Espec was lord of Kirkham which had then its church, hence its name and other broad lands in . He had, by his wife Adeline, an only child, a boy, who, like his father, possessed high mental qualities, dauntless courage, and a comely form. He was early trained to daring feats of horseman­ ship, and one day, whilst galloping at a very rapid speed towards Firby, his horse stumbled near a stone cross by the wayside, and he was thrown to the ground with such violence that he instantly expired. The sorrowing father saw in this sad affliction the merciful hand of God, smiting him for his own salvation, and he determined to seek consolation from the throne of the Almighty by making " Christ his heir." He consulted his uncle, the rector of Garton, who advised him to build and endow three religious houses; and, in pursuance of this counsel, he erected three monasteries, beginning with Kirkham, where stood his mansion and near which his darling boy had been killed. This was in the year 1121, and the house was dedicated to the Holy Trinity. He endowed it with seven churches and their impropriations, and considerable lands in Yorkshire and Northumber­ land. The monks were of the Augustinian Order, which had been introduced into a few years previously, and his uncle William, rector of Garton,