rabbits, and serve for deskes to lay books upon. The garde robe within the castel was exceeding fair, and so were the gardens within the mote and orchards without, and in the orchards were mounts Opere topeario writhed about with degrees, like trimings of cockle-shells, to come to the toppe without payne. The ryver of Derwent runneth almost hard by the castel, and about a mile lower goeth into Ouse. This river at great raines ragith and overfloweth much of the ground thereabout, being low meadows. There is a park hard by." Journey from Bridlington to Hull; through Great Driffield and Beverley.

BRIDLINGTON,

Or Burlington, as it is generally called, is situated on a bay of the German Ocean, which affords a safe harbour in strong gales of wind from the N.N.W. and N.W. The quay, chiefly inhabited by fishermen, is about a mile from the town.

Bridlington Quay has for some years past been much frequented by the nobility and gentry of the county, and also from other parts of the kingdom, as a bathing place, and it has strong recommendations in the cheapness and goodness of its accomodations and provisions. There is a handsome pier; the shore is good, and there are several bathing machines.

The weekly market is on Saturdays.

Walter de Gaunt founded a priory of black canons, as early as the reign of Henry I.

FLAMBOROUGH, inhabited only by fishermen, is about three miles from Bridlington.-Flamborough Head about two miles farther. The cliffs which form Flamborough Head, are of an amazing height, some of them insulated, and covered with wild fowl, and beneath are several vast caverns, one of them, called Robin Leith's Hole, has a passage through from the land side.

In 1805 a plan was formed, and since carried into execution, for erecting a light-house of a peculiar construction on Flamborough Head. It is con

structed with a triangular revolving light, which shews a face every two minutes. In hazy weather the red light not being seen, it shews a face every four minutes; by which means this light is distinguishable from all other lights on the coast. Those most perilous rocks off Flamborough Head, on which great loss of property, and many scenes of great distress have occurred, may now be passed in safety.

In Flamborough Church there is a monument of Sir Marmaduke Constable, one of Edward IV. and Henry VIIIth's captains. It has a long epitaph in verse, and the figure of a skeleton.

About seven miles north-west from Bridlington is Hummanby, a small market town, on the sea-coast, two miles from Filey Bay. It stands on a rising ground, and is sheltered by a fine wood on the northwest, where there was formerly a castle, the seat of Humphrey Osbaldiston, Esq.

The market is on Tuesday.

At FLIXTON, in the parish of Tolketon, was an ancient hospital, re-founded by Henry VI. and called the Carman's Hospital. It was first founded in the reign of King Athelstan, to defend passengers from wolves.

Flixten Wolds have become famous for the coursing matches annually held on them.

KILHAM, eight miles from Bridlington, is an ancient market town, situated in a pleasant and fertile valley, at the south-east declivity of the wolds, and very near the flat country called Holderness. The grounds in the parish (except an extensive portion called Swathorpe, belonging to Sir Charles Hotham, Bart. of South Dalton) containing about 7000 acres, were inclosed in the year 1772, and are chiefly appropriated

propriated to tillage and sheep-walks; and great im provements have of late been made in the cultiva tion thereof. Grain and wool are the principal commodities of the parish; the former, amounting to a large quantity annually, is sold to corn-factors, and by them sent to London, or the West Riding of Yorkshire. The latter is chiefly sold to the woollen manufacturers of Leeds and Wakefield. The town is nearly a mile and a quarter long, running from east to west; not in one continued street, but where the first street ends another commences a little farther south, and runs to the western extremity. One branch of the river Hull rises here, the water of which is remarkably transparent and whole

some.

The church dedicated to All Saints is a very long, strong, stone structure; has one aisle, a large chancel, and a lofty tower; and upon the whole seems to have been designed for containing a more numerous congregation than the present population of the parish can supply. The inhabitants retain a tradition al notion, that it has (perhaps some hundred years ago) been far more populous and extensive than it is at present; which notion seems to be favoured by the many vestiges of buildings and scites of houses, within various parts of the old inclosures, from one end of the place to the other.

The Free Grammar School in this town was founded by John Lord D'Arcy, of Aston, in this county, in the ninth year of the reign of Charles I. with appointments for a master and usher.

The weekly market is held on Saturdays; but the business of it has of late years very much decreased, owing, as it is supposed, to its vicinity to Bridlington and Great Driffield. During the usurpation of Cromwell, banns of marriage for this and the neigh bouring parishes were published in the market place, three several market days, according to act of parliament,

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liament, and the marriages were solemnized before the neighbouring justices of the peace.

In this parish there is a mineral spring, near the road leading to Rudston, said to be efficacious in curing certain disorders; and the vipsey or gipsey, that after a wet autumn breaks out at a place called Henpit Hole, near the road to Langtoft. The violence of this spring or spout, when it first issues out of the ground, is said to be so great that a man on horseback may ride under its arched stream.

There is a place called Dane's Grave, a piece of ground at the north-west extremity of the fordship, marked with a great number of hillocks close to one another, traditionally said to be the burying place of the Danes, when invading this country.

Three miles east from Kilham, is BURTON AGNES, the seat of the late Sir Griffith Boynton. Burton Agnes belonged to the Somervilles, and by an heiress of that family descended to the Griffiths; and Sir Henry Griffiths, at the latter end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, began a stately brick house, which was finished by his widow. Here is a remarkably neat church, which was repaired in 1727, by Sir Griffith Boynton, the third baronet of his family. It contains several ancient monuments of his ancestors the Somervilles and Griffiths, and a very elegant one by Cheere, in memory of Sir Griffith, the father of the late Sir Griffith Boynton, who died 18th October 1761. This lordship has a common of some thousand acres of land, extending to the lordship of Barmston, where stood formerly another good seat of the Boyntons, to whom it came by marriage in the time of Richard III. The name of the Boyntons is local from Boynton, (anciently Bovington), a small village of the wolds, five miles from Kilhamn, of which Bartholomew de Boynton was seised in 1060.

In the church-yard of Rudston before-mentioned north-east of Kilham, there is a very tall obelisk of

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the same stone, shape, and size as those at Boroughbridge, though it is at least 40 miles distant from any quarry whatever.

GREAT DRIFFIELD,

Five miles from Kilham, is situated on a free sporting country, well watered by several trout streams. The woollen manufactory has been lately introduced into the parish, and there are some extensive bleaching grounds.

The market is on Thursday.

In 1784 the Society of Antiquarians, having had undoubted information that the remains of King Alfred the Great, who died in the year 901, were deposited in the parish church, of Little Driffield, about four miles west from hence, deputed two of that learned body (accompanied by some other gentlemen), to take up and examine the same: accordingly, on Tuesday the 20th of September, 1784, the above gentlemen, with proper assistants, entered the church for that purpose, to be directed to the identical spot by a secret history. After digging some time they found a stone coffin, and, on opening the same, discovered the entire skeleton of that great and pious prince, together with most part of his steel armour, the remainder of which had probably been corroded by rust and length of time. After satisfying their curiosity, the coffin was closed, as well as the grave, that every thing might remain in the same state as when found. In the history above alluded to, it appears, that King Alfred, being wounded in the battle of Stanford Briggs, returned to Driffield, where he languished of his wounds 20 days, and then expired, and was interred in the parish church thereof. During uis sickness he chartered four fairs, which are now annually held.

On the south side of the chancel these lines are written: