The Church (All Saints) is a Perpetual Curacy, with that of Little Driffield annexed, valued in the Liber Regis at £7. 10s. 24d., and now returned at £154. nett per annum. It was augmented with £200. of Queen Anne's Bounty, in 1772, and £400. in 1821. The present patron and impropriator is the Precentor in the Cathedral of York, as Prebendary of Driffield, but under the Cathedral Act the Archbishop of York will be the patron, after the termination of the existing interest of the Rev. Dr. Rice, the present Precentor. The Rev. George Allen is the incumbent. There is no Parsonage House, but there is a site for one on the south side of the churchyard, to the rear of the yard of the Red Lion Inn.

The Fabric of the church is a stately and venerable pile of Norman and Early English architecture. Its plan embraces a nave with aisles, a chancel, and a lofty square embattled tower, of the Decorated English style, strengthened by double buttresses at the angles, panelled and enriched with canopied niches, and crowned with an elegant panelled battlement, and eight richly crocketed pinnacles. Tradition states that this elegant tower, which forms a truly magnificent feature in the landscape, was built by one of the Hotham family, in commutation of a vow made during a dangerous illness, to undertake a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. A south porch was erected in 1829. Some of the windows of the church are square-headed, and others pointed. In the wall over the window in the east end of the south aisle is the statuette of a Bishop, mitred and croziered. The chancel has two tall square-headed windows on each side, and a similar window of five lights in the east end of it. There is a circular doorway, resting on attached columns, on the south side of the chancel, and a similar doorway on the north side leads to a modern vestry. The interior is very neat; the aisles are separated from the nave by an arcade of four circular arches, on similar formed columns; and the chancel and tower arches are pointed. The organ is placed within the arch of the tower. There is a piscina in the chancel, and another at the east end of the north aisle. There are several monuments in the church. The present font is modern, the ancient one being placed in the belfry. The ceilings are flat and plastered. The tower contains a clock and three bells.

The Baptist Chapel was built in 1788. The Independent Chapel, erected in 1802, is a neat brick building in Exchange Street, containing a good organ, put up in 1847, by Mr. Wm. Shepherdson, of Driffield. At the rear of the chapel is a Sunday School, erected in 1846. The Wesleyan Chapel is

* Bacon styles Great Driffield a Discharged Vicarage, and Little Driffield a Perpetual Curacy.

a large brick building erected in 1828; and the Primitive Methodist Chapel was built in 1821.

There are two good Boarding and Day Schools here for young gentlemen; one at Broomsgrove House, conducted by Mr. Edwin Shaw, and the other in Middle Street, conducted by Mr. Forge.

The National School was established in 1818. The old school has recently been taken down, and near its site a new and beautiful school for boys and girls, with master's residence, play ground, &c., has just been erected, on ground given by Lord Downe. The buildings, which are an ornament to the part of the town where they stand, are in the Pointed style, faced with stock bricks, stone quoins, and mullions, and surmounted with a bell turret and vane, from designs by Mr. C. Broderick, architect, Hull. The cost of the erection was defrayed by voluntary subscription, and a grant from the Committee of Council on Education.

An Infant School, built in 1839, is supported by subscription. The Mechanics' Institute, founded in 1887, is held in a commodious building in Westgate, which was formerly a Methodist Chapel. It numbers about 250 members; and there are about 600 volumes in the library. The presi dent for the present year is the Rev. Henry Birch, Independent minister; and the secretaries are Messrs. John Browne and C. B. Forest. On the walls of the lecture hall are large paintings, in gilt frames, of the late Mr. J. Harrison and Mr. D. Anderson, friends of the institute; and a lithographed portrait of the Earl of Carlisle, the patron of the institute.

The Farmers' Club was instituted in 1851, for the advancement of practical agriculture in this neighbourhood, and the discussion of political subjects affecting the agricultural interests. The proceedings consisted of lectures and discussions on practical points in husbandry, agricultural chemistry, with experiments, and politics, by amateur and professional lecturers. The club has sent delegates to political meetings, and subscribed to movements for protection to native industry; and it has been the the means of bringing several of the reaping machines and improved agricultural implements into operation in the district, and testing their practical utility. In the harvest of 1852 an important and interesting trial of reaping machines, under the auspices of the club, took place on the farm of the president, Mr. Hopper, of Kelleythorpe. The club originated the Driffield and East Riding Agricultural Society, with which it was amalgamated in the beginning of the present year. This society dates from the 1st of January, 1854, and an annual subscription of 10s. or upwards, constitutes a member. According to its rules an annual show of all sorts of short horned cattle, horses, sheep, pigs, poultry, and implements, is to be held in the month of July, and to be open for competition to the East Riding of Yorkshire. The first annual show of the Society took place at Driffield, on the 12th of July, 1854, on which occasion the prizes awarded amounted to £282. 17s. 6d.; and the second was at the same place on the 25th of July in the present year, when the sum of £329. 7s. 6d. was given as premiums. The president for the present year is Lord Hotham; secretary, Mr. Robert Kirby.

The Floral, Horticultural, and Poultry Society was formed in 1852, and held its first show in the autumn of that year. In consequence of the spirit and liberality with which the exhibitions have been conducted, they have proved the most successful and brilliant of anything of the kind in this part of the country; each successive exhibition excelling the previous one in interest, extent, and financial matters. The great number of every variety of beautiful poultry, the extent and excellence of the floral and horticultural produce, have attracted the largest, the gayest, and most fashionable company ever witnessed in Driffield. The society is upheld by voluntary contributions and donations, and is patronized by Lord Hotham, the Hon. Capt. Duncombe, and many of the gentry of the district. President, E. H. Reynard, Esq.; Secretary, Mr. John Browne.

The trout streams afford excellent sport to the angler, and for the protection of the fisheries, an Anglers' Club was established in 1833. This club numbers amongst its members the Duke of Leeds, Viscount Downe, Lord Wenlock, and Sir Tatton Sykes. The subscription of each member is £5. per annum. President, Lord Londesborough; Treasurer and Hon. Sec., E. H. Reynard, Esq. The proprietors of the trout stream are Lord Londesborough, Viscount Downe, and Sir T. Sykes. About 2 miles from Driffield an extraordinary trout was caught in the stream, by J. Dunn, a waterman, on the 24th of Sept., 1832. It measured 32 inches in length, 21 inches in circumference, and weighed 17 pounds. It is now preserved, and in the possession of Mr. Dobson, fishing tackle manufacturer, Driffield. There was another trout, taken in the stream a few years since, weighing 12 pounds, which is now in the Scarborough Museum; and several have been taken of about five and six pounds weight. About twenty miles of water are preserved by this club.

A neat building, containing the Corn Exchange and Public Rooms, was erected in 1841, at an expense of about £2,600., raised in shares of £10. each. It contains two large rooms, each being over 50 feet long and 30 wide, and communicating with each other by sliding partitions; a room in which the magistrates hold Petty Sessions, for the division of Bainton Beacon, on the first Thursday in every month; and in which the County Court is held once a month, before William Raines, Esq.; and other offices. The inner room is lighted from the ceiling, which is very fine, and has an orchestra over the entrance, and the whole is lighted with gas. The building is of brick, with a front of cut stone. The entrance is beneath a handsome pediment, supported by two fluted columns and two pilasters with Corinthian capitals; and to shew the difficulty there is in removing old prejudices, or in altering old customs, we may observe, that in preference to the accommodation afforded by this beautiful structure, the farmers, even in wet weather, continue to buy and sell their corn in the street, opposite the Blue Bell Inn.

A Gaol, or Lock-up, was erected in the town in 1843. It contains three cells and a house for the Superintendent. The Railway Station, on the Hull, Bridlington, and Scarborough Railway, is at the south end of the town.

The Driffield Poor Law Union comprehends 43 townships, embracing an area of 165 square miles, with a population, in 1851, of 18,265 persons. The Union Workhouse will accommodate about 200 inmates. The appointments and arrangements in this institution are admirable. Chairman of the Board of Guardians, Rev. R. C. Wilmot; Clerk, Edmund Dade Conyers, Esq. (the Coroner); Chaplain, Rev. G. Allen; Master, Mr. J. S. Wilson. There are eight medical officers for the Union.

Antiquities. There are numerous barrows in this neighbourhood; the most remarkable of which are those near the edge of the Wolds, about 3 miles N.E. of Driffield. There, is a secluded spot of wooded ground, measuring four acres, covered with nearly 200 tumuli of slight elevation, so closely arranged as not to leave more than 34 feet between any two of them. They are called Danes' Graves, and the valley near to this ancient cemetery is called Danes' Dale. They are supposed to be the graves of Danish invaders who fell in battle here, perhaps in combat with the troops of Harold; or the spot may have been the place of sepulture of a colony of Danes, residing at Danes' Dale. They are not recorded in history, and all that is known of them is their traditionary name. They have frequently been opened, and each mound is generally found to contain a skeleton, but weapons, ornaments, or other articles usually found in barrows, have been rarely met with.

On the south of the town of Driffield two or three large barrows have been opened within the last few years, especially in 1849, by the Yorkshire Antiquarian Club, and a number of skeletons and Anglo-Saxon remains were discovered, consisting of weapons, beads of amber, brooches, pins, and articles of domestic use, mostly all of which, except the skeletons, have been deposited in the Museum of the Philosophical Society at York, and have been des

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cribed by the Rev. C. Wellbeloved, in the Journal of the British Archæological Association, volume vii., for 1846. One of these barrows, examined three or four years ago, contained a stone chamber, or chest, in which was deposited a large skeleton, with a beautiful urn, some beads, and other remains of a bygone age. These remains are referable to the ancient British period, and are in the possession of Lord Londesborough, upon whose estate (at Kelleythorpe) they were found.

Moot Hill is said to be the site of an ancient castle.

There are several good houses in and near Driffield, and among which we may mention Garton Cottage, the residence of Thos. Atkinson, Esq.; White Hall Villa, the residence of the Rev. J. Matthews; and Souththorpe Lodge, in the occupation of Mr. R. D. Dawson. There are some good farm houses scattered through the parish. The Manor House, the residence of Mr. Jas. Allanson, is an ancient brick building. A few years ago, whilst cutting a drain close to the house, Mr. Allanson discovered a human skeleton. Near the house is an ancient spring called Kendal Well, against which was formerly a post, to which an iron dish was chained, that travellers might help themselves to the water. The people of Beswick pay 24s. 6d. per annum to the Kendal Well estate, for which sum they are toll free at the Little Driffield fairs. Near the well, which is now a sheet of water, at which cattle drink, is one of the handsomest and largest white thorn trees in the kingdom. Little Kendal House is in the occupation of Mr. William Allanson. Field House, the residence of Mr. George Dunning, was formerly occupied by Mr. Coates, the breeder of the bull and cow already mentioned. Wold House is the residence of Mr. Robert Hornby; and Danes' Dale Farm is held by Mr. M. Turner. In a plantation a little to the north of the house, are the graves already alluded to.

Little Driffield Chapelry. - The population of this township numbers 186 persons. The village is situated about 1 mile W. of Great Driffield, and in the centre of it is a large green, in which is a copious spring of water. The fairs above-mentioned are held upon this green, and on the fair days the villagers may exercise the right of selling ale, by ancient custom, without a license, though there are two public houses in the village.

The Living is a Perpetual Curacy, annexed to that of Great Driffield, and valued in the King's Books at £5.3s. 4d. The Church (St. Peter) is a plain edifice, consisting of a nave and chancel, which were rebuilt in 1807, and a west tower, apparently erected in the 14th century. The interior is plain. On the north wall of the chancel is a tablet, upon which is inscribed, "Here lies the body of Alfred, King of Northumberland, who departed this life Jan