ILLUSTRATIONS. FIGURE OF ST. MARGARET, FROM MARTON PRIORY. KILTON CASTLE : Plan of Kilton Castle The North-East Tower.-North Front The North-East Tower.-East Front Window in Basement of North-East Tower ROMAN TOMBSTONE AT YORK. PHOTO OF SWORD DUG UP NEAR WAKEFIELD SPECIMENS FOUND IN THE ANGLIAN CEMETERY AT HOB HILL, to face 132 Arms of Sigston, in the Aisle Window of Kirby Sigston BRIDLINGTON PRIORY: CLOISTER ARCADE (two plates) to face 238 THE MANOR-HOUSE OF THE BISHOPS OF DURHAM AT HOWDEN: Plan of the Remains of the Bishops' Manor House, to face 257 PAGE AN EXCAVATION AT ADEL :-Plan and Sections, Adel Camp to face 288 AN UNRECORded Brass at BOSSALL, IN the North Riding :- THE CASTLES OF THE NORTH RIDING : Plan of Cropton, Castleton, Castle Leavington, and Helmsley Castle . Foss, Feliskirk, and Killerby Castles to face 336 352 358 Middleham (William's Hill) and Northaller- Pickering and Pickhill, Castles, and to face 366 Sheriff Hutton and Topcliffe Castles. 372 Skelton Castle from the N.N.W Skelton Castle in 1762 Whorlton and Yafforth Castles. Map of North Riding of Yorkshire CORRIGENDA ET ADDENDUM. Page 55n. Col. 1, last line. For J. G. Clark read G. T. Clark. 58n. Col. 1, line 7. For Cartalarium read Cartularium. Line 13 from bottom. For caracata read carucata. Line 17 from bottom. For danarios read denarios. Line 2. " " 222. Line 3. 222. 229. For tent read tenement. Note, col. 2, line 1. For Monstervillers read Moustervillers. Add after line 15-Henry le Scrope, chamberlain 1346 and bailiff 1349-50, was still living in 1394. Free of the city of York in 1342 as "Henricus le Skrope de Manfeld." In 1377 the city chamberlains received 4s. rent de "Henrico de Manfeld pro terris Galfridi Lescrop super Byshopeshill" (Corp. Records, A.y., p. 3). On 25 April, 1394, John de Manfeld, rector of a mediety of St. Mary's Bishophill senior, bequeathed the residue of his estate "Henrico de Manfeld consanguineo meo," to Julian his wife, and to Alice, daughter of the said Henry de Manfeld (Reg. Test., i, fo. 65b). Julian was the daughter of John de Briggenhall [Brignall], of York, whose brother, Richard de B., mercer, free in 1337, died in 1362, leaving an only child, Agnes, who by deed made 9 July, 1366, in the church of St. Mary-in-the-Strand, London, gave all her property in York to Henry de Manfeld of that city. ROBT. H. SKAIFE. THE Yorkshire Archæological Journal. THE CHURCH IN RIPON.1 BY REV. CANON J. T. FOWLER, D.C.L., F.S.A. We know comparatively little of the Church in Ireland before the fifth century, in Scotland before the sixth, or in England before the seventh century. St. Augustine came over from Rome to the south of England in 597, and St. Aidan from Iona to the north in 635. The known history of Ripon begins about twenty-five years after this, for about 660 a Celtic monastery was founded here by Alchfrid, prince of Deira, Eata being the first abbot. This old abbey, according to Leland3, stood on lower ground than the present Minster, about two hundred yards away to the north, where was afterwards a Chapel of Our Lady, whence the name of the street, St. Mary Gate, which forms the eastern boundary of the site. Here St. Cuthbert held the office of guestmaster, and on a certain occasion ministered to the necessities of a mysterious guest, who was supposed to have been an angel. These earliest monks brought with them from Lindisfarne the Celtic traditions with regard to the time of keeping Easter, the form of the tonsure, and other matters in which the Celtic traditions differed from those of Rome that were introduced by Roman missionaries. Now about 664, only four years after its foundation, this first monastery was bestowed by Alchfrid upon his friend Wilfrid3, who had been to Rome, indeed he is said to have been the first Englishman to visit the Eternal City, and he came back full of Roman ideas. He was a man of great ability and determination, and insisted on the Roman Easter, tonsure, etc., being 1 This paper was read before the Yorkshire Archæological Society in the Minster on July 12th, 1911, but as some matters had to be passed over for want of time, these and other additions are here included, together with references to authorities. VOL. XXII. 2 Bede, Vit. S. Cuthb., vii; Memorials of Ripon, i, 2. 3 Itin., 1745, i, 89; M.R., i, 83. 4 Bede, Vit. S. C., vii; M.R., i, 2; Metrical Life of S. C., 42. 5 Bede, Hist. Eccl. iii, xxv; M.R., i, 3. Ripon Psalter, Whitham's ed., p. 6. Eddii Vita, cap. 3. A |