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Title: The Ballads and Songs of Yorkshire
Transcribed from Private Manuscripts, Rare Broadsides, and
Scarce Publications; with Notes and a Glossary
Author: C. J. Davison Ingledew
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THE BALLADS AND SONGS
OF YORKSHIRE,
TRANSCRIBED FROM PRIVATE MANUSCRIPTS, RARE BROADSIDES,
AND SCARCE PUBLICATIONS; WITH NOTES
AND A GLOSSARY.
BY
C. J. DAVISON INGLEDEW, M.A., Ph.D., F.G.H.S.
AUTHOR OF "THE HISTORY OF NORTH ALLERTON."
LONDON:
BELL AND DALDY, 186, FLEET STREET
1860.
TO
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF CARLISLE, K. G.
This Work
IS, WITH PERMISSION, MOST RESPECTFULLY
DEDICATED
BY THE EDITOR.
PREFACE.
The present work is a selection from the Ballads and Songs of my native
county, and I trust the publication may not be deemed an unacceptable
offering. In a polished age like the present, I am sensible that many of
the productions of our county bards will require great allowances to be
made for them. Yet have they, for the most part, a pleasing simplicity,
and artless grace, which, in the opinion of such writers as Addison,
Dryden, Percy, and others, have been thought to compensate for the want
of higher beauties; and, in the words of the latter, "If they do not
dazzle the imagination, they are frequently found to interest the
heart."
Wherever I have had an opportunity, I have collated my copies with the
earliest editions, retaining in the notes, in many places, the different
readings, the text in modern editions being materially changed and
frequently deteriorated. I have omitted pieces from the pens of Scott,
Wordsworth, Rogers, and other modern writers, whose works may be assumed
to be in the reader's possession. Another class, the last dying[vii]
confessions of criminals, &c., have been, with few exceptions, left out,
as more appropriate for a separate volume. I trust, however, in what is
retained will be found every variety:—
"From grave to gay, from lively to severe."
And should the reader receive one half the pleasure in perusing the
contents, that has been afforded in collecting, I shall be perfectly
satisfied.
In the notes prefixed to the Ballads and Songs, I have acknowledged my
obligations to the friends who have so kindly assisted me, but cannot
allow this opportunity to pass without again expressing my sincere
thanks to Edward Hailstone, esq., F.S.A., Charles Jackson, esq., and
others who have manifested so great an interest in the work.
This ballad is supposed to be written by Mordrid, chief of the bards, in
the reign of Edwin, king of Northumberland, whose son Offa was slain in
the battle of Hatfield Wood, near Doncaster, A.D. 633. It concludes
with the words of the bard. Rapin says, on Hatfield Heath a bloody
battle was fought between Ceadwalla, king of the Britons, and Penda, the
Pagan king of Mercia, against Edwin, the first Christian king of
Northumberland, in which Edwin and Offrido his eldest son were slain.
Oswy, king of Northumberland, being engaged in war with Penda, the
Pagan king of Mercia, he vowed that, should he come off victorious, his
daughter should dedicate herself to the service of God by a life of
celibacy, and that he would give twelve of his mansions for the erection
of monasteries. Being successful, Oswy, in order to fulfil his vow,
placed his daughter Ethelfleda, then scarcely a year old, as a nun in
the monastery called Hertesie (Stag Island), of which Lady Hilda, niece
of Edwin, first Christian king of Northumberland, was abbess; and having
procured ten hides of land, in the place called Streanshalle (Whitby),
built there in 657, a monastery for men and women of the Benedictine
order, which was dedicated to St. Peter, and Lady Hilda appointed the
first abbess. This lady was so famous for her sanctity that she attained
the name of St. Hilda, and the monastery, though dedicated to St. Peter,
is generally called after her. This abbey continued to flourish till
about the year 867, when a party of Danes, under Hinguar and Hubba,
landed at Dunsley Bay, the Dunus Sinus of Ptolemy, plundered the
country around, and amongst other depredations entirely destroyed the
monastery. About this period the tale is supposed to commence; the
succeeding incidents are all fictitious, and were dictated to the
author, in some measure, by the romantic situation of the abbey,
(magnificent in ruin,) which is exceedingly proper for such events.
This monastery lay in ruins till after the conquest, when king William
assigned Whitby to Hugh de Abrincis, who disposed of the place to
William de Percy, by whom the monastery was refounded about 1074, and
dedicated to St. Peter and St. Hilda. In the reign of Henry VIII. this
house shared the fate of the other monastic establishments; and its
yearly revenues, according to Dugdale, were £437 2s. 9d.;
and £505 9s. 1d., according to Speed.
In the year 1138, David, king of Scotland, invaded the north of England
with a numerous army, in aid of the claim of the empress Matilda, his
niece, against king Stephen. The fury of his massacres and ravages
enraged the northern barons, who assembled an army and encamped near
Northallerton. On Monday the 22nd of August, 1138, the standard was
raised on Cowton Moor, three miles north of Northallerton, and after a
severe contest the Scots were defeated and ten thousand of their number
slain; the rest, with king David and prince Henry his son, retreated
with difficulty to Carlisle. This engagement is sometimes called the
Battle of Northallerton, but generally the Battle of the Standard,
from a long pole,
"Like the mast of some tall ammiral,"
which Thurstan, archbishop of York, brought from the convent of
Beverley. This was drawn on a four-wheeled carriage; and had on the top
of it a silver crucifix, under which were suspended the banners of St.[19]
Peter of York, St. John of Beverley, and St. Wilfred of Ripon, and above
all, in a silver pix, the consecrated host. The following ballad was
first printed, by Mr. Evans, in 1784.
Robin Hood, a celebrated English outlaw, was born at Locksley, in the
county of Nottingham, in the reign of Henry II. about 1160. He is said
to have been of noble extraction, being the son of William Fitzooth by
his wife a daughter of Payn Beauchamp, baron of Bedford, and lady Roisia
de Vere, daughter of Aubrey, earl of Guisnes in Normandy,[11] and is
frequently styled earl of Huntingdon—a title to which, in the latter
part of his life, he actually appears to have had some sort of
pretension. In his youth he is said to have been of a wild and[36]
extravagant turn; insomuch that, his inheritance being consumed, and his
person outlawed for debt,[12] he sought an asylum in the woods of
Barnsdale, in Yorkshire,[13] Sherwood, in Nottinghamshire, and,
according to some, Plumpton-park, in Cumberland.[14] He either found or
was afterwards joined by a number of persons, the principal being Little
John (whose surname is said to have been Nailor), William Scadlock
(Scathelock or Scarlet), George a Green (pinder or pound-keeper of
Wakefield), Much (a miller's son), and a certain monk or friar called
Tuck. "These renowned thieves," says Stowe, "continued in the woods,
despoiling and robbing the goods of the rich. They killed none but such
as would invade them, or by resistance for their own defence. The said
Robin entertained 100 tall men, good archers, with such of the spoils
and thefts as he got, upon whom 400 (were they ever so strong) durst not
give the onset. He suffered no woman to be oppressed, violated, or
otherwise molested; poor men's goods he spared, abundantly relieving
them with that which by theft he got from abbeys and the houses of rich
old carles." He died in 1247; see Robin Hood's Death and Burial, post.
Guy of Gisborne,—the only other memorial which I can find relating to
him is in an old satirical piece by William Dunbar, a celebrated
Scottish poet, of the fifteenth century,[15] on one "Schir Thomas Nory,"
where he is named along with our hero, Adam Bell, and other worthies, it
is conjectured, of a similar stamp, but whose merits have not come to
the knowledge of posterity:—
Several lines of this ballad are quoted in the two old plays of the
"Downfall," and "Death of Robert, earl of Huntington," 1601, 4to., black
letter, but acted many years before. It is also alluded to in[46]
Shakespeare's "Merry Wives of Windsor," Act I. Scene 1; and again, in
his second part of "King Henry IV." Act V. Scene 3.
Sung "To an excellent tune."
In Wakefield there lives a jolly pinder,
In Wakefield all on a green,
In Wakefield all on a green:
"There is neither knight nor squire," said the pinder,
ROBIN HOOD AND THE CURTALL FRYER
OF FOUNTAINS ABBEY.
The Curtal Friar here mentioned is undoubtedly the person so frequently
occurring in the ballads, as one of the companions of Robin Hood, under
the name of Friar Tuck. He is thus mentioned by Skelton, laureate, in
his "Goodly Interlude of Magnificence," written about the year 1500, and
with an evident allusion to some game now forgotten:—
"Another bade shave halfe my berde,
And boyes to the pylery gan me plucke,
And wolde have made me freer Tucke,
To preche oute of the pylery hole."
The Curtal Friars were named, according to Dr. Stukeley, from the cord
or rope which they wore round their waist, to whip themselves with, and
were of the Franciscan order. Our friar is undoubtedly so called from
his curtal dogs, or curs as we now call them, for in fact he was not a
friar, but a monk of Fountains Abbey, which was of the Cistercian order.
Robin Hood's bow is said by Ray to have been preserved in Fountains
Abbey.[35]
The following ballad is from an old black-letter copy in the collection
of A. à Wood, corrected by a much earlier one in the Pepysian library,
printed by H. Gosson, circa 1610.
THE BISHOP OF HEREFORD'S ENTERTAINMENT
BY ROBIN HOOD AND LITTLE JOHN,
IN MERRY BARNSDALE.
"Along on the lift hond," says Leland, "a iii. miles of betwixt Milburne
and Feribridge, I saw the wooddi and famose forrest of Barnesdale;[38]
wher thay say that Robyn Hudde lyvid like an outlaw."[39] This ballad is
supposed to be modern, from the Aldermary church-yard press, compared
with the York copy.
Robin Hood having for a long period, maintained a sort of independent
sovereignty, and set kings, judges, and magistrates at defiance, a
proclamation was published offering a considerable reward for bringing
him either dead or alive; which, however,[62] appears to have been
productive of no greater success than former attempts for that
purpose.[40] At length, the infirmities of old age increasing, and
desirous to be relieved, in a fit of sickness, by being bled, he applied
for that purpose to the prioress of Kirklees nunnery, in the parish of
Dewsbury, W. R. of Yorkshire.[41] From the Sloane MS. we learn "that
being dystempered with could and age, he had great payne in his lymmes,
his bloud being corrupted, therefore, to be eased of his payne by
letting bloud, he repayred to the priores of Kyrkesly, which some say
was his aunt, a woman very skylful in physique and surgery; who,
perceyving him to be Robyn Hood, and waying howe fel an enimy he was to
religious persons, toke revenge of him for her owne howse and all others
by letting him bleed to death." This event happened in the 31st of Henry
III. (1247), and, if the date assigned to his birth be correct, about
the 87th year of his age. He was interred under some trees, at a short
distance from the precinct of the nunnery, a stone being placed over his
grave.[42]
The following inscription over his remains, preserved by Dr. Gale, dean
of York, Thoresby says, was "scarce legible," and Dr. Whitaker seems to
think spurious:—
Hear undernead dis laitl stean
laiz Robert earl of Huntingtun
near arcir ver az hie sa geud
an pipl kauld im Robin Heud
sick utlawz az hi an iz men
vil England nivr si agen.
Obiit 24 Kal. Dekembris 1247.[43]
A statue of this renowned free-booter, large as life, leaning on his
unbent bow, with a quiver of arrows, and a sword by his side, formerly
stood on one side the entrance into Kirklees Hall.
This ballad is preserved solely in the editions of "Robin Hood's
Garland," printed at York, where it is made to conclude with some
foolish lines, (adopted from the London copy of a ballad, called "Robin
Hood and Valiant Knight,") in order to introduce the epitaph.
HISTORY OF SIR JOHN ELAND, OF ELAND, AND HIS ANTAGONISTS.
The origin of this quarrel is not very clear, neither is it certain the
time when this ballad was written. It is said that one Exley had killed
the brother's son of sir John Eland, and that a relative, sir Robert
Beaumont, screened him from the resentment of sir John, also that the
affair was, in some measure, made up, sir John Eland having accepted of
a compensation in lieu of justice being done upon the murderer, but that
he afterwards violated the agreement; whereupon sir John got together a
considerable number of armed men, and in one night, in the month of May,
put to death the said sir Robert, and two old gentlemen, his near
relatives, Hugh de Quarmby and John de Lockwood. This is so far
confirmed by the Hopkinson MSS. in the possession of Mrs. Richardson[67]
Currer of Eshton hall, wherein it says, "that with sir Robert Beaumont
were slain his brother William, and ... Exley, who had killed the
brother's son of sir John Eland." This manner of executing private
revenge, according to Brady, in his "History of the Reign of King
Stephen," was brought from Normandy to England:—"If any earl, or
great man, found himself aggrieved by another, they frequently got
together all their men at arms, or knights that held of them, their
other tenants and poor dependants, and as much assistance from their
friends and confederates as they could, and burnt one another's castles
and houses, &c."
William de Meschines and Cecily de Romille his wife, founders of Embsay
Priory, (says Dr. Whitaker,) were now dead, and had left a daughter,
Alice, who adopted her mother's name, Romille, and was married to
William Fitz-Duncan, nephew of David, king of Scotland. They had issue a
son, commonly called the Boy of Egremond,[58] who, surviving an elder
brother, became the last hope of the family.
In the deep solitude of the woods, betwixt Bolton and Barden, in Craven,
four miles up the river, the Wharfe suddenly contracts itself to a rocky
channel, little more than four feet wide, and pours through the
tremendous fissure with a rapidity proportioned to its confinement.[87] The
place was then, as it is yet, called the Strid, from a feat often
exercised by persons of more agility than prudence, who stride from
brink to brink, regardless of the destruction which awaits a faltering
step. Such was the fate of young Romille, who inconsiderately bounded
over the chasm, with a greyhound in his leash, the animal hung back and
drew his unfortunate master into the torrent. The misfortune is said to
have occasioned the translation of the priory from Embsay to Bolton,
which was the nearest eligible site to the place where it happened.
This priory existed upwards of four hundred years, when it was
surrendered by Richard Moon, the prior, and fourteen of his brethren, on
the 26th Jan. 1540. On the 3rd April, 1542, the site was granted to
Henry Clifford, first earl of Cumberland, but nineteen days before his
death, for the sum of 2,490l; from him it has descended to the present
owner, the duke of Devonshire.
THE DEPOSING OF RICHARD II. AND HIS MURDER IN POMFRET CASTLE.
Richard II., son of the Black Prince, was born in 1366, and succeeded
his grandfather Edward III., on the throne of England, 1377; murdered in
1392. Historians differ with regard to the manner in which he was
murdered. It was long the prevailing opinion that sir Piers Exton, and
others of his guards, fell upon him in Pontefract castle, and that the
king, wresting a pole-axe from one of the murderers, soon laid four of
their number dead at his feet; but at length being overpowered, he was
struck dead with a blow of a pole-axe.
"O Pomfret, Pomfret, O thou bloody prison!
Fatal and ominous to noble Peers!
Within the guilty closure of thy walls,
Richard the Second here was hack'd to death."
Shakspeare's Richard III.
But it is more probable that he was starved to death; and after all
sustenance was denied him, he prolonged his unhappy life, it is said,
for a fortnight, before he reached the end of his miseries. This account
is more consistent with the story that his body was exposed in public,
and that no marks of violence were found upon it.
THE FELON SEW OF ROKEBY AND THE FRYERS OF RICHMOND.
This curious ballad was first published in Dr. Whitaker's "History of
Craven," in 1805, but, from an inaccurate manuscript, not corrected very
happily. It was transferred by Mr. Evans to the new edition of his
Ballads, with some well-judged conjectural improvements. Sir Walter
Scott, in "Rokeby," has given a more authentic and full, though still
an[94] imperfect, edition of this humoursome composition, from being
furnished with a copy from a manuscript in the possession of Mr. Rokeby,
of Northamptonshire, descended of the ancient barons of Rokeby. It has
three or four stanzas more than that of Dr. Whitaker, and the language
seems, where they differ, to have the more ancient and genuine readings.
Ralph Rokeby, esq. who bestowed this intractable animal on the convent
of Richmond, seems to have flourished in the time of Henry VII., which,
since we know not the date of Friar Theobald's wardenship, to which the
ballad refers us, may indicate that of the composition itself.
The subject of this ballad is the great Northern Insurrection in the
12th of Elizabeth, 1569. It happened thus:—
The zealous adherents of the Romish religion being dissatisfied at the
change, formed the design of re-establishing that faith, restoring Mary
of Scotland to her liberty, and placing her on the throne of England.
The earls of Northumberland and Westmoreland, who possessed great power
in the north, having held together several conferences, orders were
despatched by Elizabeth to these noblemen to appear at court, and[105]
answer for their conduct. This order from the queen precipitated the
rising before they were fully prepared, for the leaders had already
proceeded so far that they dare not trust themselves in the queen's
hands. They determined to begin the insurrection without delay; and
committed themselves irrevocably by entering Durham in arms, on the 14th
November, 1569. This rising was speedily suppressed, and martial law
having been proclaimed, great severity was exercised. The earl of
Northumberland and many gentlemen were executed; sixty-six petty
constables were hanged; and not less than eight hundred persons are said
to have suffered by the hands of the executioner. Between Newcastle and
Wetherby, a district of sixty miles in length by forty in breadth, there
was not a town or village in which some of the inhabitants did not
expire on the gibbet.
The following was first printed by Dr. Percy, in 1765, from two MS.
copies.
Tradition tells us that near the Dropping Well, at Knaresborough, this
famous Yorkshire Sybil was born, about the year 1487; she married Tobias
Shipton, a carpenter of Shipton, near York; and from this match derived
the name of Mother Shipton. Many tales of her skill in futurity are
still related in the county; the whole of which, including a series of
succeeding events, are stated to have been delivered to the abbot of
Beverley, as in the following:—
"A maiden queen full many a year,
Shall England's warlike sceptre bear."
Spoken of queen Elizabeth, that was beloved by her subjects, and dreaded
by her enemies, above forty years.
"The western monarch's wooden horses,
Shall be destroy'd by Drake's forces."
The king of Spain's mighty armada, in 1588, was destroyed by the English
fleet.
"Triumphant death rides London thro',
And men on tops of houses go."
The first line points to the great sickness in London, in 1665; the
second to the dreadful fire in the following year.
This famous prophetess died in the fifty-ninth year of her age,
fulfilling her own prediction, even to the day and hour. On her tomb was
placed this epitaph:—
William Nevison was born in Yorkshire, though the place is uncertain;
some say at Nevison hall, in Upsall, near Thirsk, others, at Pontefract
and Wortley. He was notorious during the reign of Charles II., and was[126]
named by the "merry monarch" Swift Nick. After committing a robbery in
London, about sunrise, he rode his mare to York in the course of the
day, and appeared upon the Bowling-green of that city before sunset.
From this latter circumstance, when brought to trial for the offence, he
established an alibi to the satisfaction of the jury, though he was in
reality guilty. But, though he escaped this time, he was afterwards
apprehended in a public-house at Sandal-three-Houses, near Wakefield,
for another offence, convicted and hanged at York, May 4th, 1685. "Thus
it was related," says lord Macaulay in his "History of England," "of
William Nevison, the great robber of the north of Yorkshire, that he
levied a quarterly tribute on all the northern drovers, and in return
not only spared them himself, but protected them against all other
thieves; that he demanded purses in the most courteous manner; that he
gave largely to the poor what he had taken from the rich; that his life
was once spared by the royal clemency, but that he again tempted his
fate, and at length died, in 1685, on the gallows at York."
Roseberry, or Rosebury Topping, originally, it is said, called
"Ottenberg," is a conical hill, situated at the north-west angle of the
Eastern moorlands known as the Cleveland hills, near the village of
Newton, about one mile to the east of the road from Guisbro' to
Stokesley. It is about 1488 feet above the level of the sea, and, by its
detatched position and superior elevation, it commands in all directions
a prospect at once extensive and interesting, and serves as a land-mark
to navigators.
Upon the top of the hill issues, from a large rock, a fountain of very
clear water, to which the following very ancient tradition is connected.
When king Oswald of Northumberland's son, Oswald, was born, the wise men
and magicians were sent for to court, to predict and foretell the life
and fortune of the newborn prince; they all agreed that he would when
half a year old be drowned. The indulgent maternal queen would have[129]
carried him to Chiviot, a remarkable hill in their own county, but for
the troubles then subsisting in the north; she, therefore, for his
better security, brought him to a lofty hill in peaceful Cleveland,
called Roseberry, and caused a cell or cave to be made near the top
thereof, in order to prevent his foretold unhappy death. But, alas! in
vain; for the fates, who spare nobody, dissolved the rugged rocks into a
flowing stream, and, by drowning the son, put a period to all the
mother's cares, though not her sorrows; for ordering him to be interred
in Tivotdale (Osmotherley) church, she mourned with such inconsolable
grief that she soon followed him, and was, according to her fervent
desire, laid by her tenderly-beloved, darling child. The heads of the
mother and son, cut in stone, may be seen at the east end of the church;
and from a saying of the people, "Os by his mother lay," Tivotdale got
the name of Osmotherley.
Ah! why do the walls of the castle to-day,
No longer resound with the strains of delight?
And why does the harp of the minstrel so gay,
Now rest in the gloom and the stillness of night?
But late as I travers'd these vallies long,
How high 'mid the air stream'd the banners of joy!
While the birth of prince Oswin, the boast of the song,
Gave mirth to each heart, as it beam'd in each eye.
What stranger art thou, who, in Cleveland so fair,
Of the fate of prince Oswin canst yet be untold?
How an old hoary sage had foreshown the young heir
Giving 1, an account of squire Brown, of York, who had one only son; and
how his lady fell sick, and on her death-bed begged of him not to marry
for the sake of her child.
2. How he soon married a rich widow, who was very cruel to his son; and
how his uncle died, and left him an estate of two hundred pounds a year.
3. How his step-mother sent him away for the sake of his money, by
taking a ring from his father and putting it in the boy's pocket; for
which his father sent him to sea, and the ship was taken by the
Spaniards, and he made a slave of.
4. How the ghost of his mother came to this cruel wretch, and told his
father of the ring; and how afterwards his father fell into despair, and
hanged himself; and his son came home again, went to law with his
step-mother, got five hundred pounds from her, which broke her heart.
In the town of Beverley, in Yorkshire, about two years ago [1703], there
lived one squire Somers, a very honest gentleman of about three hundred
per ann.; his wife dying, by whom he had one little daughter, about two
years of age, he continued some months a sorrowful widower; he could not
well enjoy himself after the loss of his dear spouse. And it so happened
that, partly out of grief, partly from a violent fever, he was brought
to his bed of sickness, where he continued not long, for he died within
a fortnight after he was taken by that fever. He expressed a great
concern for his little girl, and therefore called his brother, a
gentleman that lived about fourteen miles from him, and begged him to
take the care of his daughter upon him. "Brother," said he, "I leave
with you the dearest thing that I have in the world—my little daughter,
and with her to you I intrust my estate; manage it for her use, and take
care of her education in virtue and religion; use her as if she were
your own, and, for my sake, see her married to an honest country
gentleman." All which was faithfully promised by the brother. Thus, when
all things were settled, the gentleman dies, and the brother takes home
the child to his house, and for some time used her kindly. But at the
last, the devil of covetousness possessed him; nothing run in his mind
so much as making away with the child, and so possess the estate. After
many ways, he at last concluded to take her with him, and hide her in a
hollow tree; which one morning he effected, and left the poor infant[141]
with her mouth stopped that she might not cry. For he had so much grace
not actually to murder her, therefore he left her alive in the hollow of
the tree; and, the better to hide the matter, gave out that the child
was dead, and, therefore, caused an effigy of wax to be made, laid it in
a coffin, and a shroud, and made a great funeral for the child. Thus the
effigy was buried, and no notice at all taken of the matter. At the same
time, a neighbouring gentleman dreamed that that day he should see
something that would sufficiently astonish him. He told it to his lady,
who dissuaded him from going a hunting that day; but he was resolved,
not giving any credit to dreams, and so takes horse in the morning. As
he was a hunting, he happened to be in the wood where the child was, and
as he was riding by the tree his horse gave a great start, so that he
had liked to have fallen down; and turning about, to see what was the
matter, he saw something stir in a hole, and being inquisitive to know
the cause, his dream presently came in his head, and therefore he calls
his man, and bids him examine what was in the hole; who, having searched
the tree, discovers the child in the tree. He took it out, and his
master carried it to his lady almost dead; he told her his dream was
out, declaring how he found the child, and begged her to take care of
it. The child was revived, and in a little time brought to itself again;
but they could not imagine whose it was; till at last it happened that
some woman came to the gentleman's house, a singing at Christmas, and
seeing the child, knew it, and declared whose it was, and that it was
supposed to be dead and buried. The gentleman goes and prevails with the
minister of the parish to have the grave opened, and found the waxen
effigy of the child in the grave. He went to the justice of the peace,
to whom he declared the matter; who sent his warrant for the child's[142]
trustee, who, being convicted of the matter, was not able to deny it,
but confessed all the business. But seeing the child was alive, it is
supposed he will not be tried for his life, but it is thought a severe
punishment will be inflicted on him; and the justice appointed the
gentleman that found the child to be its trustee till the assizes. The
child is now at the gentleman's house, who loves it as if it was his
own, for he has no children himself, and is a man of a good estate, and
is likely to augment very much the child's fortune.
Roger Wrightson, at the sign of the King's Head, in Bowes, in the N. R.
of Yorkshire, courted widow Railton's daughter, at the sign of the
George in the same town, and has done more than a year. On Shrove
Tuesday, 1715, he fell sick, and languished till Sunday next but one
following, and after saying three times, "Martha, Martha, come away,"
then died.
Poor Martha (for that was the maid's name whom he courted) Railton,
though privately, took heavily on all that time, and only had declared
to her sister and mother that if he died she could not live. An honest
friend is unworthily blamed for doing what I[142] would have done myself
had I known it; for Martha Railton begged of him to go and see young
Roger, and tell him she would gladly come and see him, if he thought fit
(knowing all his father's family was against her). Roger answered, "Nay,
nay, T—my, our folks will be mad; but tell her I hope I shall[146]
recover." Well, the poor lass, almost dead in sorrow, first sent an
orange, but Roger's mother sent it back; yet about three days before his
death Martha went. His mother was so civil as to leave her by his
bedside, and ordered her daughter Hannah to come away, but she would
not. Poor Martha wanted only to speak three words to him, and (although
she stayed two hours) yet Hannah would not let her have an opportunity,
and so, in a sorrowful manner, she left him. Her book was her constant
work Friday, Saturday, and Sunday; and she would oft say to herself,
"Oh! you Hannah! if he dyes my heart will burst." So on the same Sunday
se'night, at five o'clock in the afternoon, the bell was tolled for him,
and upon the first toll, Martha lay by her book, got her mother in her
arms, with, "Oh! dear mother, he's dead, I cannot live." About three
minutes after Thomas Petty went in and desired her to be more easy. Her
answer was, "Nay, now my heart is burst!" And so, in mournful cries and
prayers, was fainter and fainter, for about three hours, and seemed to
breathe her last; but her mother and another girl of the town shrieked
aloud, and so called her back again (as they term it), and, in amazed
manner, distorted with convulsion fits (just as it is described in Dr.
Taylor's "Holy Living and Dying"), stayed her spirit ten or twelve hours
longer, and then she died.
At last things was brought to this issue, to be buried both in one
grave, and the corpse met at the church gate, but Hannah objected
against their being buried together, as also she did at her being laid
first in the grave; but was answered that a bride has to go first to
bed. She, being asked why she should be so proud and inhumane, answered,
that she said, "Martha might have taken fairer on, or have been hanged."
But oh, the loud mourning of friends on both sides at the corpse
meeting, and more at the grave; wherein first she was decently laid,[147]
and then he. In the parish register of Bowes is the following
entry:—"Rodger Wrightson, junr., and Martha Railton, both of Bowes,
buried in one grave. He died of a Fever, and upon tolling his passing
Bell, she cry'd out 'My heart is broke,' and in a Few hours expired,
purely (or supposed, interlined in a different hand) thro' Love. March
15, 1714-5, aged about 20 years each."
Worthy Sir,—He who sits down to write anything for the public benefit,
without fixing on the person to whom he shall dedicate it, knows little
of the art of authorizing, for perhaps when he has finished his work he
may not know any person to whom the subject may be agreeable, or that
has generosity enough to pay for washing the clean ruffles he is obliged
to put on when he waits on him to implore his protection. But I
generally take another way, and make my Patron before I begin my work,
and suit the subject according to his capacity and genius. As, for
example, if I write a book of History and Politics, I have Mr. Alderman
Smith[151] for that; if of Love and Gallantry, who can be so good a
judge as your neighbour Mr. Taylor; if of Wit and Humour,
I have Mr. Alderman Cave[152] in my eye; if of Sobriety and Temperance, no one[153]
can be so proper as the Rev. Mr. Willatts;[153] if I write in praise of
and recommend the practice of Generosity, Public Spirit, and Patriotism,
and urge the indispensable duty of a good subject, not only to hazard
his fortune, but even his person, for the good of his country, no man
can be so proper as Richard Turbutt, esq.,[154] as all those virtues are
conspicuous in him in the highest degree. It is for this reason I humbly
lay the inclosed lines at your feet, and implore your patronage of them.
Should I say any more in your praise it would offend your known modesty,
which has always been remarkably impatient at hearing yourself praised,
even for those things for which some people (otherwise greedy of praise)
would think they deserved no praise at all. But, to be serious with you,
I wish this trifle may divert you during your unhappy confinement. To
make you and your young ladies laugh, it will more than answer the most
sanguine expectations of, &c. &c. John Ellerker.[155]
The remorseless tragedy on which this ballad is founded took place
upwards of a century ago. In the village of Romanby, near Northallerton,
there resided a desperate band of coiners, whose respectability and
cunning concealment precluded all possibility of suspicion as to their
proceedings. The victim of their revenge was Mary Ward, the servant of
one of those ruffians. Having obtained an accidental view of some[165]
secret apartments appropriated to their treasonable practices, she
unguardedly communicated her knowledge to an acquaintance, which
reaching her master's ears, he determined to destroy her. The most
plausible story, time, and means were selected for this purpose. On a
Sunday evening, after sunset, an unknown personage on horseback arrived
at her master's mansion, half equipped, to give colour to his alleged
haste, and stated that he was dispatched for Mary, as her mother was
dying. She lingered to ask her master's permission, but he feigned
sleep, and she departed without his leave. On the table of her room was
her Bible, opened at these remarkable words in Job, "They shall seek me
in the morning, and shall not find me; and where I am, they shall not
come." Her home was at the distance of eight miles from Romanby, and
Morton bridge, hard by the heath where she was murdered, is the
traditionary scene of her nocturnal revisitings. The impression of her
re-appearance is only poetically assumed, for there is too much of what
Coleridge would term "the divinity of nature" around Morton bridge, to
warrant its association with supernatural mysteries.
PAUL JONES, THE CUMBERLAND MILITIA,
AND SCARBROUGH VOLUNTEERS.[183]
The inhabitants of the Yorkshire coast were frequently, about the year
1779, thrown into a state of alarm by that intrepid Anglo-American
buccanier, Paul Jones. This man had formerly been in the service of the
earl of Selkirk, whence he was expelled with disgrace, and having
repaired to America he volunteered to make a descent on the British
coast. Being entrusted with the command of a privateer, he effected a
landing at Whitehaven, and set fire to some shipping in the arbour. He
sailed for Scotland, where he landed on the estate of the earl of
Selkirk, and plundered his lordship's house of all the plate. These
services insured his promotion, and procured him the command of the Bon
Homme Richard, and the Alliance, each of 40 guns; the Pallas, of 32
guns; and the Vengeance, armed brig. With this force he made many
valuable captures, insulted the coast of Ireland, and even threatened
the city of Edinburgh. On Monday, the 20th Sept. 1779, an express
arrived at Bridlington, from the bailiffs of Scarborough, with
intelligence that an enemy was cruising off the coast. On Thursday a
valuable fleet of British merchantmen from the Baltic, under the convoy
of the Serapis, Capt. Pearson, of 44 guns, and the Countess of
Scarborough, Capt. Piercy, of 22 guns, hove in sight, and were chased[185]
by the enemy. The first care of Capt. Pearson was to place himself between
the enemy and his convoy; by which manœuvre he enabled the whole of the
merchantmen to escape into the port of Scarborough. About half-past seven
o'clock the thunder of the cannon announced that an engagement had
commenced; the battle raged with unabated fury for two hours, when at
length Capt. Pearson, who was engaged by the two largest of the enemy's
ships, was compelled to surrender. Capt. Piercy, after a long and gallant
defence, was in the end obliged to strike to the Pallas. The enemy
purchased the victory at a prodigious price, more than 300 men being
killed or wounded in the Richard alone, which vessel received so much
injury, that she sunk next day with many of the wounded on board.
Capt. Pearson afterwards received the honour of knighthood; and the
freedom of the borough of Scarborough was presented to him and his
gallant colleague, Capt. Piercy, in two boxes of "heart of oak,"
ornamented with silver.
Come each loyal Briton of courage so bold,
As annals can show you would ne'er be controul'd,
It vexes my patience I'm sure night and day,
To think how that traitor Paul Jones got away.
Derry down, &c.
As soon as this rebel near our shore did come,
From all parts of the town the inhabitants run,
They all stood amazed his fire to see,
But this never daunted our brave militia.
Our two noble colonels they straight gave command,
Brave Lowther[184] and Fleming,[185] two parliament men,
THE YORKSHIRE KNIGHT; OR, THE FORTUNATE FARMER'S DAUGHTER.[189]
In Three Parts.
Part I. Showing how a noble knight was riding by a farmer's house when
his wife was in travail. The knight, knowing the signs and planets,
looking on a book, read that the farmer's daughter that was born that
hour was to be his bride. And how the cruel knight got the child from
her parents, and flung it into a river; but, by good fortune, the child
was taken up by a poor fisherman alive, who brought her home and kept
her till she was eleven years old.
Part II. How the fisherman was in an inn with some gentlemen, the
knight being one of the company; and seeing this young girl come in, he
asked the fisherman if she was his own daughter, who told the story[194]
of his taking her up, &c. How the knight got the poor girl away, and
contrived her death a second time, and how he was prevented.
Part III. How the knight contrived her death the third time; but her
life was saved by showing the knight a ring that he flung into the sea,
which the knight seeing, found it was in vain to strive against fortune,
so married her.
Part I.
In famous York city a farmer did dwell,
Who was belov'd by his neighbours full well;
He had a good wife that was virtuous and fair,
And by her he had a child every year.
In seven years' time six children they had,
Which made both the father and mother's heart glad.
But a little time, as we do hear say,
This farmer in wealth and stock did decay;
Although that once he had riches great store,
In little time after he quickly grew poor;
He strove all he could, but alas! could not thrive,
Nor hardly could keep his poor children alive.
But children came faster than silver or gold,
For his wife she conceived again, we are told,
And when her time came, in hard travail she fell;
But, if you will mind, a strange wonder I'll tell.
A rich noble knight did chance to ride by,
And hearing this woman to shriek and cry;
He being well learned in planets and signs,
Did look on a book which puzzled his mind:
For the more he did look, still the more he did read,
And found that the fate this young child had decreed,
Being an account of a race lately run at Temple-Newsham Green; none
being admitted to run but such as were virgins. The first that came to
the Two Miles' Race end was to have a silver spoon; the second, a silver
bodkin; the third, a silver thimble; and the fourth, nothing at all.
Being a relation of a widow in Yorkshire, who, having buried her
husband, and left seven small children, was reduced to great poverty,
and turned out of house and home; then going to her husband's brother,
being a rich man, in hopes of finding relief, but instead thereof he
threatened them with cruelty. With an account of a lady's love at the
greatest time of her distress.
This ballad, communicated by Mr. Wm. Grainge,[209] of Minskip, has never
been printed, and is little known. The tradition on which it is founded[238]
is yet related by old people in the midland parts of Yorkshire, and the
incidents recited in the narrative are very nearly those related by the
tongue of "hoary eld."
A story of two rustics, and the history of their several mistakes during
a holiday which they took, in 1842, to go to Scarborough to see the
Florentine Venus, then being exhibited in that town.
This ballad is founded on an event which took place in the latter part
of the year 1848. A gamekeeper of the earl of Ripon went out one night
about his usual business, and was found next morning, near one of the
plantations on Hutton Moor, shot dead. A notorious poacher, who was seen
in the neighbourhood on the day of the murder, was apprehended and tried
at York assizes, but acquitted for want of evidence; he subsequently
emigrated to America, where he died, and is said to have confessed that
he was the murderer.
THE GREAT EXHIBITION; OR, PRINCE
ALBERT'S CURIOSITY SHOP.
An entirely new comic song, written and sung by Mr. Burford, at the
Theatre, Whitby, on the occasion of the Foresters' bespeak, and since
received every evening with great applause.
This song was composed to commemorate an event which created much
sensation in Yorkshire, and indeed throughout all England, in
September, 1853; this was the inauguration and opening of a palace[299]
dedicated to industry near Shipley in Airedale. These works were built
for the manufacture of alpaca and mohair fabrics, and named Saltaire
from Salt—the name of the owner, Titus Salt, esq., M.P. for
Bradford—and Aire, the name of the river on which they were erected.
The buildings cover an area of eleven and half acres, will contain 1,200
looms capable of producing 30,000 yards of cloth, or mixed goods, per
day, or nearly 18 miles of cloth, and employing about 5,000 people.
The town of Saltaire is built upon the best principles, including every
convenience necessary for promoting the health and comfort of the
population. Not only will it be a model town as regards its spacious
squares and streets, grounds for recreation, schools, and church, (which
has lately been opened, and cost 11,000l., and is perhaps the most
beautiful in its interior of any church in Yorkshire,) its baths and
washhouses, and all that philanthropy can suggest, or art supply, to
further improvement.
Yatton, the village of Ayton, commonly called "canny Yatton."
Yol, you will.
Yor, your.
Yo've, you have.
Recently published, 8vo. with Illustrations, cloth, price 15s. Large
paper, half bound, £1 5s.
THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF
NORTH ALLERTON
IN THE COUNTY OF YORK.
BY C. J. DAVISON INGLEDEW,
OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE.
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public buildings, registers, folk-lore, are duly recorded in a way to
gratify its inhabitants, and the curiosity of all who are interested in
the history of this ancient town."—Notes and Queries.
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valuable historical and antiquarian information."—Yorkshire Gazette.
"Though professedly a local history, this work is rich in the records of
national events."—Leeds Intelligencer.
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North Riding, but must also prove very helpful to any future historian
of England."—Leeds Mercury.
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perusal by any reader."—Newcastle Journal.
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family history."—Gateshead Observer.
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FOOTNOTES:
[1] The famous Reafen, or enchanted standard, in which the Danes put
great confidence. It contained the figure of a raven, which had been
inwoven, by the three sisters of Hinguar and Hubba, with many magical
incantations, and which, by its different movements, prognosticated, as
the Danes believed, the good or bad success of any enterprise.
[3] Eldest son of Gilbert de Gant, nephew to William, duke of
Normandy. Walter was a person of great humanity and piety; who, when
advanced in years, and near his death, commanded a regiment of Flemings
and Normans in this engagement. He founded the priory of Bridlington,
and added buildings to the abbey of Bardney, which his father had
restored. He married Maud, daughter of Stephen, earl of Brittany and
Richmond, had with her all Swaledale, in Frank-marriage; and died,
fourth Stephen, leaving issue three sons, Gilbert, who succeeded him,
Robert, and Geoffrey.
[4] William le Gros, chief of those gallant barons at the
engagement; and in reward for the great valour displayed by him on that
occasion was forthwith advanced to the earldom of Yorkshire. He was
distinguished among the Anglo-Norman barons for his liberality towards
the various religious orders, having founded a Cistercian abbey at
Edenham, in Lincolnshire, and one at Meux in Yorkshire, not far from his
castle of Skipsey; a monastery of black canons at Thornton-upon-Humber;
and a hospital at Newton. He was also the founder of the castle of
Scarborough. He died in 1179, leaving two daughters, his co-heirs.
Hawyse, married first to William de Mandeville, earl of Essex, secondly
to William de Fortibus; and Amicia, married to Eston.
[5] Robert de Brus, son of Robert who came over with the
Conqueror, by Agnes his wife, daughter of Waltheg, earl of St. Clair. He
had an interview with David, king of Scotland, before the battle, to
endeavour to persuade him to desist. He was no less distinguished for
piety than valour. He founded Guisborough priory; gave the church of
Middlesborough to Whitby; and conferred on the abbey of St Mary, at
York, his lordships of Appleton and Hornby. He died in 1141, and was
buried at Guisborough; leaving issue, by Agnes his wife, Adam and
Robert.
Adam de Brus, lord of Skelton, son and heir of the above, who fought by
the side of his father in this engagement. Having adhered to king
Stephen throughout his stormy and disastrous career, he incurred the
displeasure of Henry II. who deprived him of his castle of Danby in
Cleveland. He died in 1167, and was buried at Guisborough, leaving
issue, by Ivetta, his wife, Adam, commonly called Adam the Second, and
Agnes.
[6] Lord of Helmsley and Kirkham, and one of the principal
commanders in this battle; and, although this is the only battle we find
him engaged in, his address to the soldiers shows him a man of valour in
defence of his country. He founded the abbey of Rievaulx and Kirkham;
and died in 1153, and was buried in the abbey of Rievaulx, where two
years before he had become a monk.
[7] Son of Nigel de Albini, who assumed the name of Mowbray. He
was one of the commanders in this battle, though then in minority; and,
adhering to king Stephen, was with him at the battle of Lincoln, and
there taken prisoner. He was a benefactor to no fewer than thirty-five
religious houses, and founded the abbey of Byland, and the priory of
Newburgh, in the neighbourhood of his castle at Thirsk. So fervent was
his devotion that he twice took upon him the cross, and made journeys to
the Holy Land, and upon his return retired to the calm seclusion of
Byland abbey, where he assumed the monastic habit, and ended his days;
leaving, by his wife Alice de Gant, two sons, Nigel and Robert.
[8] Thurstan, the twenty-eighth archbishop of York, and who was
at this period Lieutenant-Governor of the North, organized the troops
that fought this famous battle, and had the command as far as Thirsk, at
which place he resigned, on account of sickness, his authority to Ralph,
bishop of Orkney, of whom little is known. The archbishop of York used
to ordain bishops with the title of Orkney; but Torffæus is of opinion
that they were merely titulars, to give greater show of authority to the
see of York; and he is positive that this bishop did never reside in the
isles of Orkney, and that Ralph, designated bishop of Orkney, had been a
presbyter of York.
[9] The following were among the "valiante chiefetaynes:"—
Bernard de Baliol, nephew to Guy de Baliol. After this battle he
adhered to Stephen, and was taken prisoner with him at the battle of
Lincoln. He is supposed to be the founder of the castle thence called
Bernard castle; was a benefactor to the monks of St. Mary's Abbey, York,
and those of Rievaulx.
Richard de Curcy, represented by Hugustald as a valiant commander in
this battle. He was succeeded by William de Curcy, sewer to king Henry
II.
Robert de Ferrars, youngest son of Henry de Ferrers, by Berta his
wife. He commanded the Derbyshire men in this battle, and for his
bravery was forthwith advanced to the earldom of Derby, which honour he
did not long enjoy, dying the following year, 1139, leaving Robert
second earl.
William Fossard, son of Robert, was taken prisoner with Stephen at the
battle of Lincoln. He left issue Joane, married to Robert de Turnham.
Ralph Hanselyn, descended from Goisfrid Alselin. He commanded the
Nottinghamshire men in this battle, and resided principally at Shelford
in that county. He left issue Rose, married to Thomas Bardulf.
Ilbert de Lacy, lord of Pontefract. He married Alice, daughter of
Gilbert de Gant, and dying without issue, Henry his brother succeeded
him.
Gilbert de Lacy, brother of the above. Hemingford and other historians
inform us that he was the only knight slain.
William Peverell, son of Ranulph, had the castle of Nottingham given
him by the Conqueror. He was taken prisoner with Stephen at the battle
of Lincoln; his castle was given by the empress Maud to William Painell;
but in the year following his soldiers recovered it by stratagem in the
night. He was living in 1141.
William de Percy, son of Richard. He gave to the monks of Fountains
two oxgangs of land, three to the monks of Whitby, and one to the monks
of Bridlington. He married Adelidis de Tunebrige, and had issue four
sons, Walter, Alan, Richard, and William; and two daughters, Maud and
Agnes. His sons dying, Agnes, who married Joscelaine de Louvaine,
younger son of Godfrey, duke of Brabant, eventually became sole heiress,
and her husband assumed the name of Percy.
Robert de Stutevile, son of Robert, was sheriff of Yorkshire in 16
Henry II., and was engaged in the battle fought near Alnwick, 20 Henry
II. He founded a monastery at Keldholme, another at Rosedale, and gave
to the monks of St. Mary's Abbey, York, one carucate of land. He was
succeeded by his son Robert, who gave large possessions to the monks of
Rievaulx.
[10] In 1152, Scotland lost, says Sir Walter Scott, a treasure
by the death of the inestimable prince Henry. He left by Ada, an English
lady of quality, a family of three sons and as many daughters. In the
subsequent year the venerable David followed his son. Having discharged
all his duty as a man and a monarch, by settling his affairs as well as
the early age of his grandchildren would permit, he was found dead, in
an attitude of devotion, 24 May, 1153. He was succeeded by his grandson,
Malcolm IV., then only twelve years of age.
[11] Stukeley's Palæographia Britannica, No. I.passim.
Leland's Collectanea, I. 54. See Ritson's Robin Hood.
[30] The title of "Sir" was not formerly peculiar to knights, it
was given to priests, and sometimes to very inferior personages. Dr.
Johnson thinks this title was applied to such as had taken the degree of
A. B. in the universities.
[34] The above ballad is from an old black-letter copy in
Anthony à Wood's collection, compared with two others in the British
Museum. In 1557 certain "ballets" are entered on the books of the
Stationers' Company, "to John Wallye and Mrs. Toye," one of which is
entitled, "of wakefylde and a grene," meaning probably this ballad.
[38] "A. D. 1194, King Richard I. being a hunting in the
forrest of Sherwood, did chase a hart out of the forrest of Sherwood
into Barnesdale in Yorkshire, and because he could not there recover
him, he made proclamation at Tickill in Yorkshire, and at divers other
places, that no person should kill, hurt or chase the said hart, but
that he might safely retorne into forrest againe; which hart was
afterwards called, 'A hart royall proclaimed.'"—Manwood's Forest
Laws.
[41] Letter from Jo. Saville, to W. Camden, Illus. Viro Epis.
1691.
[42] Collectanea, i. 54. Fuller's Worthies of Eng. 330.
[43] In a work entitled, "Sepulchrorum inscriptiones: or a
curious collection of 900 of the most remarkable epitaphs," Westminster,
1727; this epitaph is not inelegantly paraphrased:—
"Here, underneath this little stone,
Through death's assaults, now lieth one,
Known by the name of Robin Hood,
Who was a thief, and archer good;
Full thirteen (thirty?) years, and something more,
He robb'd the rich to feed the poor;
Therefore, his grave bedew with tears.
And offer for his soul your prayers."
In the "Travels of Tom Thumb over England and Wales," is another
version, though inferior:—
"Here, under this memorial stone,
Lies Robert earl of Huntingdon;
As he, no archer e'er was good,
And people call'd him Robin Hood;
Such outlaws as his men and he
Again may England never see."
See the anecdote respecting the removal of Robin Hood's tombstone in
Gent's "Ancient and Modern History of the Famous City of York," 1730,
12mo. p. 234.
[44] Burnt. This stanza is omitted in one edition.
[45] Son of sir Thomas de Eland, of Eland hall in the parish of
Halifax, knight of the shire for Yorkshire, 14 Edward III. and sheriff
of Yorkshire, 15 Edward III., in which year it is supposed the quarrel
took place. Sir John married, 1st, Alice, daughter of sir Robert Lathom,
(who bore, or, on a chief daucette, az. three plates,) by whom he had
issue sir John Eland, who had a son, name unknown, and Isabel. Thomas,
Henry, Margery, Isabel, and Dionysia; 2ndly, Ann, daughter of —— Rygate,
by whom he had no issue; and 3rdly, Olive —— by whom he had Robert, who
married Alice, daughter of Fitz-Eustace, and James, who died young. In
the quire of the church of Eland, in a window, are painted the arms of
Eland, viz. Gules, two barrulets between eight martlets argent, three,
two and three.
[46] Son of William de Beaumout, of Whitley, in the parish of
Kirkeaton. He married, circa 20 Edward II., Grace, daughter and
heiress of sir Edward Crossland, of Crossland, co. Yorkshire, knight, by
whom he had Adam, named hereafter Thomas, who died s. p., and John,
who married Alice, daughter of John Soothill, esq., by whom he had
Richard, from whom descended a race who lived in splendour to the reign
of Charles I.
[47] The market appears to have been granted by charter, 10
Edward II. (Harl MS. No. 797.), and for some time held a rivalship
with Halifax; but for many ages the market has been discontinued.
[48] Lockwood appears to have been a quarrelsome person, for in
the court rolls at Wakefield, 35 Edward I., John de Lockwood, of
Lockwood, was presented and afterwards found guilty of having forcibly
ejected one Matthew de Linthwaite from his free tenement, and when the
earl's grave and bailiff came to take possession thereof, he made an
attempt, with others unknown, to have slain them, so that they barely
escaped with their lives.
[49] "The remains of a wet ditch surrounding Crossland hall are
visible to this day; but neither Quarmby nor Lockwood houses had the
same advantage."—Watson's Hist. of Halifax.
[50] It is stated in Hopkinson's MSS. "that when sir John Eland
gave bread to Adam Beaumont, he threw it at him with disdain; on which
sir John said he would weed out the offspring of his blood, as they weed
out the weed from corn;" but this threatening was so far from being
verified that sir John's male issue were entirely cut off, whilst that
of Beaumont continued in John the third son. The preceding verse
mentions only "two boys;" but the pedigree of the family gives a third,
who probably was an infant at the time, and therefore too young to be
noticed. Adam appears to have only been about five years of age; this
may account for the different behaviour of the two boys.
[51] Some copies read Cromwelbottom hall; the residence of
Lacy.
[52] "This verse," says Watson, "cannot be explained, for no
authority which I have seen shows the name of sir John's son and heir."
[53] The half brother mentioned was a son of sir John's lady,
who was daughter of Gilbert Umfravile, and widow of Robert Coniers of
Sockburn, in the county of Durham.
[54] After the death of sir John Eland, and his son and heir,
sir John Savile of Tankersley, purchased, in 1350, the wardship of
Isabel Eland, daughter of the said sir John, from the lord of the honour
of Pontefract, for 200l. See Comput. Seneschall honoris de
Pontfrete, p. 17. After this purchase he married her, and in her right
became possessed of the estates belonging to that family.
[55] Hopkinson's MSS. says "that the town and neighbourhood
were raised by sound of horn, and ringing the bells backways."
[56] "In an ivy tree, with an intent to have been
saved."—Hopkinson'sMSS.
[57] The subsequent history of these gentlemen is given in "A
relation of the lives and deaths of Wilkin (or William) Lockwood, and
Adam Beaumont, esqrs. and what adventures happened to them after the
battle with the Eland men, in Anely wood;" from which we learn that
Lockwood retired to a solitary place called Camel hall, near Cawthorn
(now Cannon hall), where he was subsequently taken by the sheriff and
his men, after a desperate resistance, and cruelly put to death, to the
utter extirpation of the ancient family of Lockwood, of Lockwood, in the
West Riding of Yorkshire.
Adam Beaumont, upon hearing of the death of Lockwood, and that
precepts were sent from London to the sheriff to arrest him, resolved to
leave the country; and having landed in France, by some means or other
got into the service of the knights of Rhodes. Some years after, his
friends received an account of his life and death; from which it appears
he resided sometimes at Rhodes, amongst the knights there, and sometimes
in Hungary, where, in one of the engagements against the Turks, he
honourably ended his life.
[58] This incident has called forth the poetical effusions of
Wordsworth and Rogers. See their respective works; also Wordsworth's
Hart Leap Well, the scene of which is laid near Richmond, and White
Doe of Rylstone.
[59] Both the MS. and Dr. Whitaker's copy read ancestors,
evidently a corruption of aunters, adventures, as corrected by Mr.
Evans.
[76] This line is wanting in Dr. Whitaker's copy, whence it has
been conjectured that something is wanting after this stanza, which now
there is no occasion to suppose.
[82] The MS. reads, to labour weere. The text seems to mean
that all their labour to obtain their intended meat was of no use to
them. Dr. Whitaker reads:—
"She was brim as any boar.
And gave a grisly hideous roar,
To them it was no boot."
Besides the want of connection between the last line and the two former,
the second has a very modern sound, and the reading in the Rokeby MS.,
with the slight alteration in the text, is much better.
[86] This stanza, with the two following, and a fragment of a
fourth, are not in Dr. Whitaker's edition.
[87] The residence of this facetious baron. Leland says, that
"Mr. Rokeby hath a place called Mortham, a little beneath
Grentey-bridge, almost on the mouth of Grentey." "This place and
Rokeby," says Hutchinson, "were, in very distant ages, in the possession
of the Rokebies; Robert de Rokeby lived in the time of the Conqueror. By
the arms and date on Mortham tower, it appears that it was built in 1166
by the Rokebies."
[89] Ralph Rokeby married Margery, eldest daughter and co-heir
of Robert Danby, esq., of Yafforth near Northallerton, by a daughter of
sir Richard Conyers, knt. Her will is dated 27 Sep. 1540.—See Richmond
Wills by Surtees Soc.
[90] This line is illegible according to Scott; but Bell in his
Ballads gives the verse:—
[100] "Yon guest" may be yon gest, i. e. that adventure; or it
may mean yon ghaist, or apparition, which in old poems is applied
sometimes to what is supernaturally hideous. The printed copy
reads,—"The beast hath," &c.
[108] At the back of French-gate, in Richmond, a little without
the walls, stood the monastery of the Grey Friars, founded, in 1258, by
Ralph Fitz-Randolph, lord of Middleham, and, after flourishing nearly
three centuries, was surrendered, in 1539, by Robert Sanderson, the last
warden, and fourteen brethren. Several of the families of Scroop,
Plessey, and Frank, were buried here. In the time of Leland, the house,
garden, orchard, and meadow, were walled in, and the edifice existed
unimpaired; but there now remains only a solitary steeple, majestic and
beautiful in ruins, to mark the residence and the sanctuary of that
order of mendicants called Franciscans from their founder St. Francis.
[110] The father of sir Gawain, in the "Romance of Arthur and
Merlin." The MS. is thus corrupted:—
"More loth of Louth Ryme."
[111] Thomas Percy, seventh earl of Northumberland, K. G; after
the failing of this insurrection he fled into Scotland, but was betrayed
by the earl of Moreton, viceroy of Scotland, and lord Hunsdon, governor
of Berwick. He was brought to York, and beheaded on a scaffold, erected
for the purpose, in the Pavement, near St. Crux church, 22nd August,
1572; in which church his body was buried, and his head placed over
Micklegate bar, where it remained about two years.
[112] Anne, daughter of Henry Somerset, earl of Worcester.
[115] Richard Norton, esq., of Norton Conyers, co. York, mar.
Susan, daughter of Richard Nevill, lord Latimer, by whom he had nine
sons, all of man's estate, and all engaged in the rebellion, though only
seven occur in the list of attainders. Old Norton escaped along with
some of his sons over seas, where he died. In the Lansdowne MSS. is a
paper addressed to Lord Burleigh, containing a pedigree of the families
of Morton of Bawtry (Nicholas Morton, priest, being engaged in this
rebellion) and Norton of Norton Conyers, interspersed with strange
personal reflections on almost every individual of the two families, and
endorsed, "A trybe of wicked people."
[117] Christopher and Marmaduke are mentioned as prisoners in
Sadler, II. 136, and the former appears to have been executed.
[118] After the failure of this enterprise he escaped to
Flanders, where, after several attempts in vain to secure a pardon, he
died in exile, a pensioner of the king of Spain. Mr. Surtees says he
saved a part of the estate, and left descendants. The estate of Norton
Conyers, however, was granted to a Musgrave, who sold it to an ancestor
of sir B. R. Graham, bart., the present owner.
[119] Charles Nevill, sixth earl of Westmoreland, attainted for
the share he took in this rebellion, when all his honours became
forfeited. In the reign of James I., Edmond Nevill, the lineal
descendant of George, youngest son of Ralph 1st earl, and next heir male
of Charles the last earl, claimed the earldom of Westmoreland; but it
was decided against him, on the ground that the attainder had caused all
the honours possessed by the same Charles to be forfeited to the crown
as an estate of inheritance. A copy of Edmond Nevill's claim, which is
curious, may be found in Lansdowne MSS. 254, p. 376, and Surtee's
Durham, iv. 164.
[121] The supporters of the Nevills, earls of Westmoreland, were
two bulls, argent, ducally collared gold, armed or, &c. But I have not
discovered the device mentioned in the ballad among the badges, &c.
given by that house. This, however, is certain, that among those of the
Nevills, lords Abergavenny (who were of the same family), is a dun cow
with a golden collar; and the Nevills of Chyte, in Yorkshire (of the
Westmoreland family) gave for their crest, in 1513, a dog's (greyhound)
head erased. So that it is not unlikely that Charles Nevill, earl of
Westmoreland, here mentioned, might on this occasion use the above
device on his banner.
[122] The silver crescent is a well-known crest or badge of the
Northumberland family.
[123] Of Streatlam, co. Durham, received knighthood from the earl
of Shrewsbury, being then marshal of Berwick, in 1558. He married 1st,
Dorothy, daughter of sir William Mallory of Studley, co. York; and
2ndly, Jane, daughter of sir John Talbot, of Grafton, co. Worcester. Sir
George is styled of South Cowton, co. York, 1 July, 4 Eliz; of Aske,
co. York, 7 April, 1 Eliz. During this rebellion sir George was one of
the most faithful as well as powerful supporters of Elizabeth and of the
Protestant interest in the north; and, in consequence of his services,
was created, by special patent, Provost Marshal north of the Trent, and
is said, after the rebellion was quelled, to have exercised his office
with stern severity. He died in 1580, and was succeeded by his eldest
son of his first marriage, sir William Bowes, knighted in 1586.
[129] Ambrose Dudley, created earl of Warwick, 26 Dec. 1561, with
remainder, failing his issue male, to Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester,
and the heirs male of his body, K. G., ob. 1589, s. p., and his
brother Robert having died the year previous s. p., all his honours
became extinct.
[130] Thomas Ratcliffe, 3rd earl, summoned to Parliament v. p. in
his father's barony of Fitz-Walter, 1 and 2 Philip and Mary, 1554, K.
G; ob. 1583, s. p., and was succeeded by his brother Henry, K. G.
[131] Henry Carey, (s. and h. of William Carey, by Mary, daughter
of Thomas, earl of Wiltshire, sister of queen Anne Boleyn, mother of
queen Elizabeth,) created baron Hunsdon of Hunsdon, co. Herts, 13 Jan.
1558-9, K. G; ob. 1597, and was succeeded by his s. and h. George, K.
G.
[132] Two only appear to have suffered death, according to a rare
tract of seven leaves, in verse, by Sampson Davie, entitled, "The
several Confessions of Thomas Norton and Christopher Norton, two of the
Northern Rebels, who suffered at Tyburn, and were drawn, hanged, and
quartered for treason May 27 (1570). Imprinted by William How for
Richard Jones." See Notes and Queries, 2nd S. vol. viii. 388; Strype's
Annals, vol. ii. part i. pp. 577-8; and Wordsworth's White Doe of
Rylstone.
[133] From a broadside (black letter) in the Roxburgh
collection in the British Museum. It is a favourite chap-book history.
[134] Christopher Maltby, draper, Lord Mayor in 1583.
[136] In the south aisle of the nave of Beverley Minster is an
altar tomb, covered with a slab of Purbeck marble, placed under a
groined canopy, adorned with pinnacles, and surmounted with figures,
without inscription or indeed anything to lead to a knowledge of its
occupant. Tradition assigns it to two maiden sisters (daughters of earl
Puch, of Bishop Burton, and in whose household St. John of Beverley is
said, on the authority of Bede, to have effected a miraculous cure) who
are said to have given two of the common pastures to the freemen of
Beverley.—Poulson's Beverlac, 704.
[137] Exhibited in the Pantomime which was performed Covent
Garden in the year 1770.
[138] To Edward Hailstone, esq., F. S. A., F. G. S., &c. of
Horton hall, Bradford, I am greatly indebted for the above, and also for
the following broadsides, from his valuable collection of Yorkshire
lore:—The Sheffield 'Prentice, The Great Exhibition, Bill Brown, The
Funny Wedding, The Crafty Plough Boy, Miss Bailey's Ghost, The Yorkshire
Lad in London, Spencer Broughton, and The Bonny Scotch Lad.
[139] "The editor is indebted for a copy of the above ballad
to the obliging kindness of Dr. Rooke, of Scarborough." Yorkshire
Anthology, by James O. Halliwell, esq., F. R. S., F. S. A. Printed for
private circulation only. London, 1851. To which work I am much
indebted.
[140] Mr. Halliwell's copy reads, "Kingston upon Woolwich, a
town in Yorkshire." The above copy is from Mr. Hailstone's collection,
and reads throughout more correctly.
[141] Mallet's Edwin and Emma is founded on this ballad. See
his "Ballads and Songs," edited by F. Dinsdale, esq., LL.D., F.S.A.
[142] The author of the ballad, whom the late Mr. Denham, of
Piersebridge, learnt from his father, was the then master of Bowes
grammar-school. His name does not appear.
[143] This verse is not in Mr. Bell's copy, in his "Ballads and
Songs of the Peasantry of England."
[150] From a MS. penes James Falconar, esq., F. S. A.,
Doncaster.
[151] William Smith, alderman; buried, Nov. 13, 1760.
[152] Peter Cave, mayor 1748-9; buried, June 4, 1782.
[153] The Rev. Lionel Willatts, rector of Sprotbrough, son of
Charles Willatts, rector of Plumtree, Notts, and Castiliana his wife,
daughter of Lionel Copley, esq., of Wadworth and Sprotbrough; buried, at
Doncaster, May 20, 1760.
[154] Mr. Turbutt was of a family at Mount St. John, near
Thirsk, Yorkshire. He resided for several years at Doncaster, where he
died, 3 Sept. 1758, æt. 68. He was the great grandfather of Gladwin
Turbutt, esq., now (1860) of Ogston hall, Derbyshire. His "young ladies"
were Frances, afterwards wife of John Woodyeare, esq., of Crookhill,
near Doncaster, and Eleanor, who became the wife of Lieut. General
Sowerby.
[155] Mr. Ellerker was of a good family, descended from Ralph
Ellerker, of Youlton, Yorkshire. He was some time a solicitor in the
Inner Temple, London, and died, at Doncaster, March 25, 1774, aged 82.
(Jackson's Hist. St. George's Church, Doncaster, pp. 76, 77.)
[156] 1757. "The militia raised.—Sixteen inhabitants of
Doncaster entered as volunteers."—Miller's Hist. Doncaster, p. 183.
[158] James Stovin, esq., of Whitgift, a justice of the peace
for the counties of York and Lincoln, died at Sprotbrough hall, where he
then resided, 26 July, 1789, and was buried at Rossington. He was son of
George Stovin, of Crowle and Winterton, the Lincolnshire antiquary. On
the 11 Dec. 1771, he was appointed town-clerk of Doncaster, an office
which he resigned on the 12 Jan. 1778. He was also clerk of the court of
sewers from 1757 to 1775.
[159] Probably, "Mr. Joseph Gill, Gent.," who was buried, March
19, 1763.
[160] Freeman Bower, esq., of Bawtry and Maltby, co. York, born
15 Nov. 1732; died 29 July, 1786; a justice of the peace for the West
Riding of Yorkshire, &c; was educated for the law, and practised for a
few years as an attorney, but on inheriting some family property he
discontinued that profession. On several occasions he acted as marshal
to his uncle Mr. Baron Perrott, when on circuit. He is said to have been
a handsome man, and of an hospitable, convivial disposition.
[161] Contends, strives for. Alluding to the contest between Mr.
Stovin and Mr. Gill for the office of clerk to the commissioners of
sewers for the level of Hatfield chace, which had become vacant by the
death of Mr. Burden, and to which Mr. Stovin was elected, 5 Feb. 1757.
[162] Alluding to Bower, once a popish priest, the author of the
"Lives of the Popes."
[163] Henry Farrer, of Doncaster, a surgeon and apothecary in
extensive practice for nearly fifty years, son of John Farrer, A.M.,
rector of Hemsworth, descended from the Farrers of Ewood, co. York, died
7 June, 1789, aged 69. (See Mon. Ins.Jackson's
St. George's Church, p. 107.)
[165] Mr., afterwards Dr., Edward Miller, the organist of
Doncaster, and author of the History of that Town. He composed a song to
a warlike tune, and a dance to the same tune, in which were introduced
several parts of a soldier's manual exercise. He died Sept. 13, 1807,
aged 72. See account of him in Jackson's St. George's Church, pp.
58-96.
[166] Flauta Traversa, the Italian name for a German flute.
[168] The marquess of Rockingham invited them all to his
residence, Wentworth house, where they drank French wine till they were
unable to get home.
[169] The marchioness of Rockingham drank their healths by the
name of her volunteers.
[170] The descendants of Tommy Towers were resident at Clapham
till within a very recent period, and used to take great pleasure in
relating the adventure of their progenitor. The village of Clapham is in
the West Riding of Yorkshire, on the high road between Skipton and
Kendal.
[171] Abey Muggins is thought to be a sobriquet for a then
Clapham innkeeper.
[172] This song obtained great popularity a few years ago from
the admirable singing of Emery, and is still a favourite. Mr.
Hailstone's copy concludes each verse with "Derry down, &c."
[173] From a MS. penes Rev. H. J. Branson, M. A., Rector of
Armthorpe. It is not now known with certainty to whom we are to
attribute the authorship of these lines. They appeared in the
"Yorkshire Journal," of Saturday January 19, 1788, a newspaper at that
period printed and published at Doncaster, by Thomas Sanderson. In
introducing the subject he says, "The following Ballad on Armthorpe
Bells was wrote some years ago, supposed by a gentleman of this town,
sometime since deceased, and were sent to Mr. Anstey, author of the
Bath Guide, nephew to the Rev. Christopher Anstey, the then rector of
Armthorpe. They were for some time handed about in manuscript, but
having never appeared in public may not prove unacceptable to our
readers; and we hope the vein of wit and humour, which runs through the
whole poem, will sufficiently apologize for its length." Who the
gentleman thus alluded to was we are unable to state. An impression has
prevailed that they were written by Mr. Anstey, the author of the Bath
Guide; but, in the absence of any positive evidence to that effect, we
must assume that the proprietor of the Yorkshire Journal, writing in
1788, when the subject would be fresh and talked about, is more likely
to be correct in the statement above made. Mr. Christopher Anstey, the
poet, was born 31 Oct. 1724, and died 3 Aug. 1805. The Rev. Christopher
Anstey, rector of Armthorpe from about 1771 to 1784, died June 17, 1784,
aged 73, and was buried at Doncaster.
[174] Armthorpe is a village, situated in an agricultural
district, about three miles south-east of Doncaster. An account of it at
length may be read in Hunter's able work, the "History of South
Yorkshire." The place lay close to the confines of the ancient Chace of
Hatfield, and once formed a valuable part of the possessions of the
monks of the abbey of Roche. At the dissolution of the abbey the manor
of Armthorpe came to the crown. In 3 James I. the king granted it to sir
Robert Swyft, of Tristrop, (now Streetthorpe,) knt. The family of Cooke,
of Wheatley, had a good estate here, most of which sir George Cooke,
bart. sold, in 1804, to John Walbanke Childers, esq., of Cantley, in
whose family it remains. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. Dr.
Miller, in his "History of Doncaster," 1803, briefly remarks that it was
then "a very small mean building, with one bell hanging on the outside
of it, and nothing worth noticing within." Hunter, in 1828, remarks that
it is a small building of one pace, with two bells hanging in a kind of
pent-house on the roof, and is a fair specimen of what the original
churches of the smaller country parishes must have been. "This," he
says, "is the only instance of a church without a tower in the deanery."
The living is a rectory in the gift of the crown, and is now held by the
Rev. H. J. Branson, M.A., who was presented thereto, by Lord Chancellor
Brougham, in 1834.
[175]The Fly was the name of a coach that commenced running,
in the year 1768, from Leeds to London, during the winter season, and
performed its journey in two days and a half, at that period considered
very expeditious travelling. Probably it derived its name from this
extraordinary swiftness. The advertisement of this coach, inserted in
the Leeds Intelligencer, of January 3, 1769, after stating the fares,
the places from whence it set out, &c. &c., concludes in the usual
manner, viz. "Performed (if God permit) by Messrs. Stokes, Benton and
Co;" from this expression coaches, in those days, were by some
irreverently styled "God-permits." As far back as 1669 a coach called
the "Flying Coach" went from Oxford to London in one day. Perhaps any
vehicle became entitled to the appellation that could go along at a
moderate trot. In 1791 were advertised "New Flying Stage-Waggons."
[176] Sir George Cooke, of Wheatley; probably the seventh
baronet, 1766-1823.
[177] The Angel Inn, at Doncaster, upon the site of which
stands the Guild-Hall.
[179] This passage helps to furnish a clue to the period about
which these lines were probably written. Miller (Hist. Doncaster, p.
184), under 1767, says that "a new gaol was built;" and again, under
1778 (p. 185), he says that "the old gaol was taken down and a new one
erected."
[180] In addition to the "lordlike" luxury of a pack of hounds,
in which the old corporation of Doncaster formerly indulged, that
highly respectable body, after the manner of the Royal Cole, of
convivial memory, when they "called for their bowl," (which they not
unfrequently did,) possessed also the king-like privilege of summoning
their "fiddlers three." They maintained, as a part of their regular
establishment, three musicians, called waits, who were clothed in
scarlet liveries, and played at feasts, balls, &c., and walked in the
procession to church. In former times they used to go about the town,
during the night, playing a single tune on various instruments at the
doors of the principal inhabitants; an office which seems to have
answered the same purpose as that of watchman, to which they afterwards
gave place.
[181] In 1762 the huntsman had "a frock of blue shagg, faced with
red,"—the colours of the corporation's livery.
[182] The low common was enclosed about 1671, when an allotment
of 1 acre 16 poles was given, in lieu of land appropriated from time
immemorial to the finding of church bell-ropes, and is let to the
highest bidder.
[183] From a broadside in the Roxburgh collection. Another, on
this event, is published by J. Forth of Pocklington.
[184] Sir James Lowther, bart., of Laleham, Middlesex,
son-in-law to the earl of Bute, lieut. and custos rotulorum of
Cumberland and Westmoreland, and alderman of Carlisle.
[185] Sir Michael le Fleming, bart., M.P. for Westmoreland.
[186] From a broadside in the Roxburgh collection.
[187] Thomas Cole, huntsman; the Rev. George Davison, rector of
Cockfield, co. Durham; Christopher Rowntree, junr; and William
Stockdale.
[188] The above first appeared in a Ballad-opera, entitled A
Wonder or, An Honest Yorkshire-man, by Henry Carey; performed at the
theatres with universal applause. London, printed for Ed. Cooke, 8vo.
1736. The second edition was entitled The Honest Yorkshire-man.
London, printed for L. Gilliver and J. Clarke, 12mo. 1736. See Notes and
Queries, 2nd S. IX. 126.
[189] A favourite chap-book history, sometimes called "The
Yorkshire Garland;" or, "The Cruel Knight, and the Fortunate Farmer's
Daughter." See a broadside in Rox. coll.
[190] From a broadside in the Roxburgh coll., black letter.
Printed for J. Wright, J. Clark, W. Thackeray, and T. Passinger.
[191] From a MS. penes Charles Jackson, esq., of Doncaster.
[192] The civic functionary on whom these verses are
traditionally said to have been made was George Pearson, who was elected
mayor 22 Sept. 1785 and 26 Sept. 1793. He died in 1798, and was interred
at Stainton, co. York, where is a monument to his memory, with the
following inscription:—
"This monument is erected to the memory of Geo. Pearson, esq., of
Doncaster, wine-merchant (but who had some years ago retired from
business). He was upwards of thirty years a member of that corporation,
and had twice served the office of mayor for the said borough. He was
born in this town, and was the youngest son of late Rev. Nath1.
Pearson, who was forty-six years vicar of this parish. He died December
25th, 1798, aged 73."
[193] In 1793 the corporation subscribed fifty guineas towards
the purchase of flannels and other necessaries for the use of the
British army serving on the Continent under the duke of York.
[194] The Rev. Mr. Jones, as he stood by the fire; which runs
thus:—
"Let this be published as a warning to others, not to prove false in
Love for the sake of Gold, which has been my ruin, for one James Parker,
whom I priz'd above my soul; to get my father's estate into my own
hands, that I might have him for my husband, I poyson'd my father, two
brothers, and sister, and, to save myself, I swore falsely against my
aged mother, and have taken away her life wrongfully, a sure way to the
utter destruction of my soul; and, sir, let this my desire be fulfilled,
that all young people may shun the snares of the devil, who are drawing
to the paths of destruction this being the last desire of a miserable
soul.
Rachell Glassock."
The Text of the sermon, preached by the Rev. Mr. Jones, was from Romans,
chap vii. ver. 9. "For I was alive without the law once: but when the
commandment came, sin revived, and I died."
[195] Printed and sold in Bow church-yard, London.—See Horace
Rodd's Garland, in the British Museum.
[196] Communicated by J. S. Sutton, esq., of Elton hall,
Stockton, whom I also have to thank for "When at hame wi' Dad."
[198] From a broadside in Mr. Hailstone's coll., collated with
one penes me.
[199] Called in the Rox. coll., "Hark to Winchester; or, The
Yorkshire Volunteers, &c."
[200] Henry, last earl Fauconberg, only son of Thomas 1st earl.
He was lord lieutenant and custos rotulorum of the North Riding of
Yorkshire, and Lord of the Bedchamber to George III; died 23 March,
1802, and was buried at Coxwold.
[201] On the 16 Jan. 1780, admiral Rodney met a Spanish
squadron off Cape St. Vincent, under the command of admiral Don Juan du
Langara, and completely defeated it; capturing the Phœnix, of 80
guns, bearing the flag of the admiral, the Monarca, Princessa, and
Diligenta, each of 70 guns. The St. Domingo, of 70 guns, blown up; and
the San Julian and San Eugenio, of 70 guns, surrendered: while the
British had the trifling loss of only 32 men killed and 120 wounded.
Both houses of parliament voted Rodney thanks for his conduct upon the
occasion, and the freedom of the city of London was presented him in a
gold box valued at 100 guineas. Lord Rodney, K.B., died 24 May, 1792.
[202] The custom of singing Hagmena songs is observed in
different parts of the north of England, and in Scotland. The origin of
the term is a matter of dispute. Some derive it from "au guy l'an
neuf," to the misletoe this new year; others suppose the term to be a
corruption of aghia mhênê the holy month. The Hagmena songs
are sometimes sung on Christmas Eve, and sometimes, as at Richmond, on
the eve of the new year. See Brand's Popular Antiquities.
[203] "Ray, ree, or rey, a Portuguese coin, 100 of which are
equal to sixpence English."—Clarkson's Richmond.
[204] From A Garland of New Songs, without printer's name.
[205] From a broadside in the Rox. Coll., black letter. Printed
for P. Brooksby, at the Golden Ball in Pye Corner.
[206] "On first entering the village of Egton (near Whitby),
instead of proceeding forward, take the road through a gate to the
right, which leads past the church of Limber Hill, a winding and steep
descent, which affords, from several points, fine views of Eskdale and
Glaisdale, and at the foot of which the Beggar's Bridge, with its
elegant single arch, bestrides the river Esk."—Reed's Guide to
Whitby.
[207] A pleasant straggling village, in the parish of Ainderby
Steeple, near North Allerton, on the east bank of the Swale. Lambard,
Bede, and other early writers, inform us that Paulinus, the first
archbishop of York, baptized 10,000 persons in this river in one
day,—"By cause at that tyme theare weare no churches or oratories yet
buylt."
[208] Communicated by Mr. Wm. Todd, of Keckmondwike, author of
"T' Country Chap," &c.
[209] Author of the "Vale of Mowbray," &c: to whom I am indebted
for the "Collingham Ghost," and "The Widow's Lament."
[210] This song first appeared, in 1805, in Colman's "Love
laughs at Locksmiths." See a Latin version of this song by the Rev. G.
H. Glasse, in Gent. Mag. for Aug. 1805.
[211] From a broadside in the Rox. Coll., black letter. London,
printed for John Wright.
[212] Benjamin Preston, of Bradford, author of "T' Spicy Man,"
&c. Mr. Preston purposes giving a series of twelve, similar to the
above, in the dialect of Bradford Dale. Published by Abraham Holroyd,
Westgate, Bradford.
[213] From A Garland of New Songs, printed by W. Appleton,
Darlington, 1811.
[214] Howell Wood is situated about ten miles westward from
Doncaster. Amongst the possessions of the priory of St. Oswald at Nostel
that passed to Dr. Leigh, the original grantee from the crown, on the
22nd March, 31 H. viii., 1540, were a capital messuage called Holewell
or Hovel hall, in the parish of Thurnscoe, with a wood of 160 acres.
This wood is now the property of William Aldam, esq., of Frickley.
[215] The district called Barnsdale begins at a short distance
northwards of Robin Hood's well. It is situated about midway between
Doncaster and Ferrybridge, or Doncaster and Pontefract, and is
celebrated for having been one of the favourite haunts of the "bold
Robin Hood." See p. 35, ante.
[216] Skelbrook, about seven miles from Doncaster, a handsome
gentleman's residence, was then the property of H. Perryn Brown, esq.,
and occupied by Dawson Humble, esq. It passed to the family of John Pate
Nevile, esq., formerly of Badsworth, in which it remains, and is now the
seat of Mrs. Nevile. Situated in the vicinity of Barnsdale, and close to
the well of Robin Hood, there seemed to be kept up a lingering remnant
of ancient forestry in the maintenance here, for many years, of a small
park of deer, but which has been lately discontinued. Dr. Miller, in his
"Hist. of Doncaster," p. 343, states that this park was famous for the
fine venison it produced.
[217] Stapleton, in the parish of Darrington, is about five or
six miles from Skelbrook, northwards, on the right-hand side of the
Great North Road. The owner at that time was Ellis Hodgson, esq.
(mentioned afterwards). It was afterwards the property of the Hon. Ed.
R. Petre, and is now that of J. H. Barton, esq.
[218] The members of the Raby Hunt wear black velvet collars with
a gold fox thereon, courant, to their scarlet coats.
[219] William Henry Vane, 3rd earl of Darlington, afterwards 1st
marquess, and duke of Cleveland, K. G. &c. &c., of Raby Castle, co.
Durham, born 27 July, 1766. His grace, when earl of Darlington, for
several years occupied Bilham house, near Doncaster, as a sporting seat,
and hunted that part of the country. He died 5 Feb. 1842.
[220] Joseph Scott, esq., for many years resident at Badsworth
hall.
[221] The Hon. Martin Bladen Edward Hawke, 2nd son of Martin
Bladen, 2nd lord Hawke; born 1 April, 1777.
[222] Henry Francis Mellish, esq., of Blythe hall, Notts; died 24
July, 1817.
[223] Leonard Walbanke Childers, esq., of Doncaster, died 24
Jany. 1826, aged 57.
[224] Samuel Clowes, esq., lived at Warmsworth, and Sprotbrough
hall.
[234] Wm. Lee, esq., of Grove, near Pontefract, many years
treasurer of the West Riding, (father of R. T. Lee, esq., now of Grove,)
and his brother James Lee, esq., of Carlton, afterwards of West Retford
house, Notts.
[235] The Hon. Edward Harvey Hawke, afterwards the 3rd lord
Hawke, born 3 May, 1774.
[236] Frank Sotheron, afterwards admiral, of Darrington, and
Kirklington, Notts.
[237] Brian Wm. Darwin Cooke, esq., of Alverley, near Doncaster;
died 26 April, 1823.
[238] Probably Godfrey Wentworth Wentworth, esq., of Wolley, high
sheriff, 1796; died Sept. 14, 1834.
[239] William Danser, Lt. Col. Royal Regt., who, when captain 4th
Grenadiers, led the landing in Egypt; died at Doncaster, 19th March,
1812, aged 49.
[241] Bacon Frank, esq., of Campsall, an active justice of the
peace, and for many years chairman of the quarter sessions. High sheriff
1777; died 4 April, 1812, aged 73.
[242] Ellis Hodgson, esq., of Stapleton, before alluded to.
[247] By a Native Genius. Printed by Crabtree and son,
Cheapside, Halifax. To which is added, "Rose and Dolly," &c.
[248] From a broadside penes me, written by John Tate, "the
Pocklington Poet," and printed by J. Forth, Pocklington.
[249] Mr. Salvin purchased her of Mr. Plummer; and in another
song, after enumerating "the noble prizes she won, with courage bold,"
concludes:—
"Unto my song I'll make an end, until I write again,
Success to Mr. Hesseltine her noble trainer's name,
Likewise to Mr. Plummer, who she often makes to smile,
And may they every coming year in racing annals shine."
[250] From a broadside penes me, printed and sold by Jas.
Lindsay, Glasgow.
[251]This event, which drew upwards of 50,000 persons to the
course, was a two mile match, for 1000l., between the earl of
Eglinton's horse Flying Dutchman, by Bay Middleton, five years old,
carrying 8st. 8½ and the earl of Zetland's horse Voltigeur, by
Voltaire, four years old, carrying 8st. The former horse won by about a
length.
[252] From A Garland of New Songs, printed by J. Marshall, in
the Old Flesh-Market, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (circa 1810).
[253] Of Bradford, author of "Flow on, Gentle Aire," "Liberty, a
Vision," &c.
[254] John Nicholson, "the Airedale Poet," who was accidentally
drowned in the Aire on the 13 April, 1843, on the spot where the works
now stand. A new edition of his poems, with a sketch of his life and
writings, by John James, F.S.A., has recently been published, for the
benefit of his widow.
[255] From a broadside penes me, without printer's name.
[256] From a broadside penes me, printed by J. Harkness, of
Preston and Liverpool.
[257] From a broadside penes me, printed by Forth,
Pocklington.
[258] From a broadside in the possession of Mr. Hailstone, in
addition to those mentioned in note p. 125, ante.
[259] From a Garland of New Songs, printed by J. Marshall, in
the Old Flesh Market, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
[260] Yorkshire Songs—No. I. (of a series to be published by
Abraham Holroyd, Westgate, Bradford), 1860.
Transcriber's notes:
Footnote: 202. Typo'dipsute' changed to 'dispute'.
Fixed various punctuation
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