who died March 11th, 1635,—a graceful marble figure in cuirass and gorget, with short peaked beard, moustaches pointing upwards, according to the fashion set by the King. A touching inscription is added by his widow, who subsequently married Sir M. Boynton, a widower with eleven children, and after his death, a third and fourth husband. The church has no chancel arch, has not had the plaster removed, has a north aisle (probably end of twelfth century), with Lady Chapel at its east end, a very small priest's door, low side window, and a devil's door, and benches (? fourteenth century) of bleached oak, with simple poppy heads at the ends. There are excellent gargoyles on the tower, representing musicians and jesters; but the chief attraction of Wighill Church is its very perfect Norman west door, which requires photographing, and would repay careful study. There is a fine view from the east end over the plain of York. The Vicar has posted up a list, complete as far as evidence can be obtained, of his predecessors. It would be a most excellent thing if this were made a general practice in all churches.

Before reaching Walton Church an Early manor house is passed (windows walled up in the days of the window tax). In the field which surrounds it are mounds, which mark a still earlier enclosure which merits attention, and a building standing by itself, reported to be the Assize Court.

WALTON CHURCH.

Domesday Waletone. No church mentioned. The land of Osbern-de-Arches, i.e. from Arques, near Dieppe; perhaps Thorp Arch recalls the name of the Norman owner of Walton.

The plan consists of an aisleless nave, western tower, south porch, and chancel. The plain Norman tower arch, with chamfered imposts, is the earliest work in the church, but the present nave may possibly represent the lines of the original Norman nave. The tower has a remarkably big plinth on its western side, perhaps designed to ensure a firm foundation on the sloping ground. The chancel was reconstructed in the second quarter of the fourteenth century; the east window of five lights and a window of three lights on the south side are of this period, and both are filled with reticulated tracery. The nave is lighted by two tall square-headed windows on each side, which are apparently a little later than the chancel windows. On the north side of the chancel is an arched recess, foiled, and with a crochetted ogee hood mould springing from slender pinnacle shafts: in this recess is a stone effigy of a knight in armour of the latter part of the fourteenth

century; he wears a pointed bassinet, with camail, short tight surcoat, with its lower edge cut into leaf forms, below which appears a fringe of mail; the defences of the arms and legs are entirely of plate, with cup-shaped coudes articulated above and below, and similar knee-caps; the knight wears gauntlets, and a horizontal belt decorated with roses, with dagger on the right and sword (broken) on the left; his feet rest on a lion, and his head on a tilting helmet, the crest of which has been broken off. At the west end of the nave is a polygonal font with a very shallow recess for the water, which might be ascribed to the beginning of the thirteenth century.

An inscription to Nicolas Fairfax (170) recalls the fact that the elder branch of this great Yorkshire family had its seat at Walton, and it is possible to connect the unknown knight, whose effigy is described above, with Thomas Fairfax, whose will was signed at Walton 1394, and is more than usually interesting. The earliest forms of surnames appear therein. He leaves bequests to Edmund Coke, Hugh Gardiner, Symon Dyker, John Coke, Agnes Nuresse, Adam Carter, John Swynhird, etc.; and further on a connection between the Rouclyff family is found in the one piece of silver, signed with "rokes.”

At the conclusion of the Society's visit to the Museum at Adel on June 22nd, 1899, a collection was made among the members on the spot, and the sum realised was offered to the Rector for the purpose of providing a better light to the building, and also for making shelves on which to place the smaller objects for their being better exhibited. This has now been done, and a balance of about

is still left, which might be used for printing a small catalogue of the objects if one were drawn up.

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Colman, Rev. Frederick Selincourt, M. A. The Rectory, Barwick-in-Elmet