marble describes the great soldier as Thomas Lord Fairfax, Baron of Cameron, but makes no mention of his fame in politics and war. The Barony of Cameron, in the Peerage of Scotland, the General got from Charles II. after the restoration.

The leaden sky did not display to advantage the undulating and finely-wooded country through which the members then drove to Nun Appleton, once a mansion of the Lords Fairfax. The ruins of their castle at Steeton had been originally included in the programme, but owing to the loss of time through railway unpunctuality and the heaviness of the roads after the freshet, Mr. S. Denison, the guide of the party, judiciously dropped that item, and we made straight for the seat of that ancient convent from which the modern mansion of Sir Frederick Milner takes its name. Nun Appleton is now the residence of Mr. Angus Holden, M.P. Only one side now remains standing of the Elizabethan rectangular building where Edward Fairfax, the translator of Tasso's "Jerusalem Delivered," is supposed to have dwelt. The enterprise of the modern mason has disfigured and concealed this ancient wing and added to the old edifice a new structure belonging to an unknown schcol of architecture.

Bolton Percy was visited on the return journey to Tadcaster. The Rectory adjoining the old parish church is the residence of the Bishop of Beverley, who received the party personally, and described to them the numerous interesting features of the place. The church, which dates from the beginning of the fifteenth century is a fine specimen of its class, and is picturesquely situated on a rising ground, round which cluster the thatched roofed cottages of as leafy a village as could be found in Yorkshire. The Bishop showed everything worth remembering outside and inside the church, and was followed by a crowd of interested listeners into the narrow vestry, where are preserved parish registers of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. One of the entries, dated about 1567, stated that on a certain day in that year John Brown, a labourer, and Ann Steel, presented themselves before the incumbent, and were duly united in wedlock. Immediately after there follows the curious additional entry-"N.B.-The above person was afterwards proved a woman, and was, of course, separated from Ann Steel." A very singular crucifix (figures on both sides) is fixed outside on the east end of the building.

A Leeds Law-Suit in the 16th Century.

'HAT Leeds is a place of great antiquity is well known. Roman remains have been found from time to time in and near the town, affording ample proof that the neighbourhood was inhabited in the first four centuries of the Christian era; and William the Conqueror's Surveyors have recorded, in Domesday Day Book, that Leeds was a place of sufficient importance in the latter part of the 11th century to possess a priest and a mill of 4/-; and we know that, in the reign of King John, Maurice Paganel gave a charter to the tenants of his manor of Leeds.

Materials for writing the history of the place are, unfortunately, scanty and inaccessible; and one of the objects for which the Thoresby Society was established was the elucidation of the history of the town, by the collection and publication of such materials as still exist.

An interesting chapter, referring to the 16th century, is now presented to the members, consisting of depositions not hitherto published, which are preserved in the Public Record Office in London, under the reference "2 Eliz: 12." They contain the evidence in an action of Folkingham v. Lyndeley and uxor, but some preliminary explanation will be necessary to make this evidence intelligible.

The manor of Leeds belonged to the Crown in the reign of Elizabeth: and in Leeds, as in many other manors, the lord provided a corn mill for the use of his tenants. Anyone walking along Swinegate towards Briggate will not fail to notice a flour mill, which still has water power, standing back from the street on its south side, and still bearing the name of "King's Mills." It is probable that this mill stands on the site of that mentioned in the Domesday Survey, for it was a “Soke” mill until recently, that is to say, it had a monopoly, all the tenants of the manor being bound to grind their corn there. This privilege was extinguished in the present century, when the lord's rights. were purchased by the inhabitants of Leeds.

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