bore down all before him, and even penetrated to the rear of the English, who, terrified at his success, began to fall into disorder, and gave way, when their total defeat was prevented by the stratagem of an old soldier, who, cutting off a man's head, erected it on the point of his spear, and calling aloud, "behold the head of the Scotch king," rallied the troops, and renewed the battle. The Scots, confounded at this apparition, and dispirited by the flight of the Caledonians, fought no longer with alacrity, but began to give ground in all quarters; nor could David the Scots king, who fought on foot with undaunted courage, bring them back to the charge, so that he was obliged to mount on horseback and quit the field. The fugitives seeing the royal banner still displayed, were convinced of their king's being alive, and crowded around him in such numbers that he was able to form a considerable body, with which he retreated in good order to Carlisle, where he was, on the third day after the battle, joined by his son. In the year 1318 North Allerton was burned by the Scots. The municipal government of the town is vested in a bailiff, deputed and authorised by the Bishop of Durham, for the time being. The bishop is lord of the manor. The borough sends two members to parlia ment. The right of voting is annexed to the scitę of the greater part of the houses adjoining to and forming the street; few or none of the back tenements are considered as part of the burgage-tenures, or consequently entitled to vote. Some of those tenures now subsist in the form of stables or cow-houses, in which the appearance of our common chimnies are preserved as a memorial of their right; others are let to poor persons at a small annual rent, on condition of their keeping them in repair; and many are totally ruinous and uninhabited. The Bishop of Durham's bailiff is returning officer. The The weekly market is held on Wednesdays, and there are four fairs on the days inserted in our list. About a quarter of a mile west of North Allerton are the Castle Hills, so called from the Castle which formerly stood there, at which place are also to be seen many Roman entrenchments. On the east side of the town formerly stood a small monastery called the Treres, built by Thomas Hatfield, secretary of state to King Edward III. for white friars, Anno 1854. STOKESLEY is a small market and corporate town, situated near the source of the river Tees, in the fertile tract called Allertonshire, watered by the river Wiske. The town consists of one wellbuilt street, abont half a mile long. The weekly market is on Saturdays, and there are several fairs on the days inserted in our list. The town offers nothing sufficiently remarkable to arrest the attention of the curious traveller. About seven miles north-west from Stokesley is the small market town of YARUM, or YARM, situated on the right bank of the river Tees, over which is a stone bridge, between the counties of York and Durham; the river is navigable five miles above Yarm. This town is incorporated, and was formerly a much more flourishing place than it is at present; it, however, still carries a pretty brisk trade, by water, in lead, corn, and butter, to London. The iron bridge, thrown over the river Wear, at Sunderland, has made Yarm a considerable thoroughfare from Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland, by way of Castle Elder to Yarm, and from thence to Thirsk, &c. The weekly market is held on Thursday, and there there are five fairs on the days mentioned in our list. In the Church, which is a handsome and modern-built structure, there is a beautiful window of painted glass, by Picket of York, above the altar: it was presented by William Chalinor, Esq. a native of this town. There was formerly an ancient Hospital here, dedicated to St. Nicholas, founded by the family of Brus, in the year 1185; which was given by Alan de Wilton to the canons of lielagh Park. Here was likewise a house of black friars, founded by Peter de Brus, who died in the year 1271. GISBOROUGH is a considerable market town, situated about four miles from the mouth of the river Tees, where there is a bay and harbour for ships. The weekly market is held on Friday. There was formerly an abbey here, which was the common burial place of the nobility of these parts, and its church, from the appearance of its ruins, must have been equal to the best cathedral in England. The soil in the immediate neighbourhood of this town, besides its fertility in pasture and a constant verdure adorned with plenty of field flowers all the year, has earths of sundry colours, some iron, and mines of alum, which were first discovered in the reign of James I and have been since very much improved. Sir Paul Pindar, who first farmed them, paid rents to the King, 12,500l. to the Earl of Musgrave 16401. and to Sir William Perryman 600l. and had moreover 800 men, by sea and land, in constant pay; yet he was a considerable gainer, because there was then scarce any other to be had, and the price was 261. per ton. But now there are divers other allum works in this county, which have taken a great part of the the trade from hence, so that the works here have for some years lain neglected. Near the town are the remains of a magnificent building, being the arch which contained the east window of a priory that suffered the fate of other religious houses in the reign of Henry VIII. This ruin contributes very much to the beauty of the place. This abbey was founded by Robert Brus, 1129, for Augustine canons, and was valued at the dissolution at 6281. per annum. Journey from Askrigg to Pierce Bridge; through Richmond. ASKRIGG Is a considerable market town, and a place of great antiquity, situated near the river Ure, and Swaledale forest. The weekly market is held on Thursday. The inhabitants are principally employed in knitting of stockings, and making butter and cheese. About half a mile from Askrigg is a water-fall, called Millgill Force, which makes one grand vertical fall of about twenty or thirty yards, and then rushes down the rocky bed of the ravine. One mile further is Whitfield's Force, a spectacle highly gratifying to the lover of picturesque scenery; and about five miles up the dale from the town is Hardrow Force, a cascade, where the water falls, in one vast sheet, from a ledge of rocks 99 feet in perpendicular height. The ravine or chasm, which extends below the fall is bounded on each side by huge masses of rock, and is about 300 yards in length. Behind the fall is a deep recess, whence a good view of it may be obtained with safety. During the hard frost in the year 1740-41, a prodigious icicle is recorded to have been found here, of the whole height of the fall and nearly equal in circumference. Four miles east from Askrigg is AYSGARTH or ATTESCANE, a village situated on the river Ure. A A Here Here are several water falls, both above and be-` low the bridge; the whole range occupying nearly half a mile. This should be particularly remembered otherwise a stranger might miss the Force, where the whole body of the river, which is of considerable breadth, pours down an irregular and broken ledge of rocks in several places, in a fine ravine, surrounded by hills covered with trees. Over the river is a bridge of one arch, which rises thirty-two feet, and spans seventy-one. The romantic situation of the handsome church of Aysgarth, on an eminence, solitarily overlooking those cataracts, the decency of the structure within and without, its perfect retirement, the rural church-yard, the dying sounds of water, amidst woods and rocks wildly intermixed, with the variety and magnitude of the surrounding hills, concur to render, this scene at once awful and picturesque in a very high degree. The falls that are above the bridge are seen on descending to it, but are viewed to greater advantage on the return. They are then beheld through a spacious light arch, which presents the river at every step in variety of forms. On the left is the steeple emerging from a copse. From the bridge the water falls, near half a mile, upon a surface of stone, in some places quite smooth, in others worn into great cavities, and inclosed by bold and shrubbed cliffs, in others it is interrupted by huge masses of rock standing upright in the middle of the current. It is every where changing its face, and exhibits some grand specimens before it comes to the chief descent called the Force. No words can do justice to the grandeur of this scene, which was said by Dr. Pococke to exceed that of the cataracts of the Nile. The bridge has on it the date 1539, which is probably a stone of the old bridge, the present one seeming of much later date. This beautiful |