gether an area of 4,668 acres, and 2,761 inhabitants. Amount of assessed property, £8,812. The surface, though generally level, is in some places pleasingly varied, and the soil is mostly a rich loam. The Township of Pocklington contains 2,520 acres, and 2,546 souls; and the Town of Pock lington, 2,556 persons, viz:-1,276 males, and 1,270 females.

This place probably derived its name from its Saxon possessor Pockla, as Bridlington had its name from the Bridlas. (See p. 443.) In the time of the Confessor it formed part of the territories of Morcar, Earl of Northumbria, and after the Conquest was granted by the Conqueror to Stephen Fitz-Odo, whom he created Earl of Albemarle and Holderness. In the 28th of Edwd. I. (1300), the manor belonged to Henry Lord Percy, who obtained a charter for a weekly market on Saturday, and two annual fairs, on the eve and feasts of All Saints and St. Margaret; and whose son and successor, in the 18th of Edwd. II. (1325), procured a grant of two additional fairs. The lands have been subsequently divided among various freeholders, and the principal proprietors at present are the Hon. Capt. A. Duncombe (Lord of the Manor), Jonathan Harrison, Esq., Mr. G. T. Overend, Mrs. E. Loftus, Mr. John Cook, and Messrs. Ralph and Chas. Green. The rateable value is £7,151.

In the neighbourhood of Pocklington are several tumuli, in which Roman and Saxon antiquities have been found. Two large barrows, or tumuli, probably of Druidical origin, were formerly conspicuous on the West Green, and a large tract of land, now enclosed, retains the name of the Barrow Flat. In 1763, four human skeletons were dug up in a gravel pit in Barmby field, near Pocklington; three were without coffins, but the fourth was enclosed in a coffin, with an urn at the head, on the outside of which were engraved several ancient characters.

Under the provisions of an Act of Parliament passed in 1814, a navigable Canal was constructed, communicating with the river Derwent, near East Cottingwith, and terminating at Street Bridge, within a mile of Pocklington. This canal is nine miles in length, and has nine locks; and by means of it a considerable business is done in bringing coal, lime, manure, and merchandise, and in taking away corn, flour, &c., to Leeds, Wakefield, and other places.

The Town of Pocklington is pleasantly situated, in the vale of a rivulet, near the eastern foot of the Wolds, surrounded by a champaign tract of rich loamy land, and distant 13 miles E. by S. of York; 7 N.W. of Market Weighton; 26 N.W. of Hull; and 195 N. by W. of London. It consists chiefly of the Market Place and two streets, and is lighted with gas since 1834, by works erected at the cost of £1,600., raised in £10. shares. Considerable improvements have been made within the last quarter of a century; the Market Place has been cleared from obstructions, and rendered more commodious, by the removal of the ancient shambles; by arching over the rivulet, through the bed of which the high road from Malton and Driffield previously passed, for more than fifty yards; and by the construction of spacious and well-formed roads, which diverge from it in several directions. Near the town is a Station on the York and Market Weighton Railway. The Market, on Saturdays, is well supplied with corn and provisions; and Fairs for horses, cattle, &c., are now held on March 7th (if a leap year, March 6th), May 6th, August 5th, and Nov. 8th. There were fairs formerly held here on other days, but they have fallen into disuse. Petty Sessions for this division of the Wapentake are held here, in the Police Station, on the first Saturday in every month; and the town is a polling place for the election of Members to serve in Parliament for the East Riding. The York Union Banking Company have a branch of their establishment here.

The Benefice is a Discharged Vicarage, with the Curacy of Yapham-cumMeltonby, a peculiar of the Dean of York, the patron and impropriator, valued in the King's Books at £10. 1s. 104d., and returned at £131. per annum nett; being augmented with £700. of Queen Anne's Bounty, from 1757 to 1822; with £500. given by the Hon. and Rev. Henry Finch and his wife, in 1717; and with £200. given by Mrs. H. Griffiths, in 1822. Vicar, Rev. James Francis Ellis.

The Church (All Saints) is situated in the centre of the town, and is a spacious and venerable cruciform Gothic structure, comprising a nave and aisles, transepts (the north having an east aisle), a chancel, and a handsome, lofty, well-proportioned, embattled, and pinnacled tower at the west end, with two chapels on the north side of the chancel, and a porch on the south side of the nave. The windows have pointed arches, and some of them are large and embellished with trefoil and cinquefoil heads, and neat tracery. The clerestory windows are likewise pointed. The east window is of five lights. Within the past three years this fine old church has undergone very extensive restorations, and has been newly repewed, which has added much beauty to the interior, and the expense has been defrayed chiefly by voluntary subscription. The arches which separate the nave from the aisles rest on circular columns, with plain capitals on the south side, but capitals of a highly grotesque description on the north side. The chancel, which is the most ancient portion of the edifice, has several finely carved stalls. The organ is good; the font is a square basin, on a circular pedestal; and there are six bells in the tower. There are several monuments to the Dolman and other families; and among them is an elegant mural monument to the memory of Thomas Dolman, Esq., J. P. for the East Riding of Yorkshire, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and a member of the Quorum, who died in 1589. This monument, which was erected a few years ago, by John Dolman, M.D., of York, consists of three compartments of black marble. In the centre compartment is a recumbent effigy of the deceased, accompanied by a kneeling figure of his wife, the sole heiress of a member of the ancient house of Vavasour. The other compartments exhibit figures of the three sons and five daughters of the deceased, kneeling, and the whole is surmounted with the arms of the Dolman family quartered with those of the Vavasours. There is another handsome mural monument to Robert Denison, Esq., who died in 1829, and his wife, who died in 1837, on the three pedestals of which are placed, in glazed compartments, three exquisite pieces of oak carved work, representing Christ bearing his Cross, the Crucifixion, and the Descent from the Cross. On the outside, at the east end, is a slab inscribed to the memory of Thomas Pelling, of Burton Stather, commonly called the Flying Man, who was killed against the battlement of the choir, in his attempt to descend by a rope from the top of the tower in 1733, and buried under the place where he died. In digging a grave at the west end of the church in 1835, an ancient stone was found, on which was sculptured the Crucifixion, with a Latin inscription requesting prayers for the soul of John Stoteby. This cross, which is placed on a pedestal in the nave of the church, has been modelled very beautifully for the Crystal Palace.

The present Vicarage House was purchased, and the old one sold, about 20 years ago. The Church Land, awarded at the enclosure in 1759, for the repairs, &c., of the edifice, consists of 28A. 2R. 4P., and there are two cottages, a house, and three roods of land, which were given for the same purpose by

an unknown donor.

There is an Independent Chapel, with an endowment of £10. a year; a Wesleyan Chapel, built in 1813; and a Primitive Methodist Chapel, erected in 1820; all having residences for the ministers. There is likewise a small Catholic Chapel, with a house for the priest, but no resident priest at present. Free Grammar School. - This institute arose from the munificence of John Dolman, L.L.D., Archdeacon of Suffolk, and Lord of the Manor of Pocklington, who, in the 6th of Henry VIII. (1514), obtained a license to found in the parish church, a fraternity or "Guild of the Lord Jesus, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and St. Nicholas the Bishop," for a master, two guardians, and a number of brethren and sisters. He also obtained permission to grant lands, &c., of the yearly value of 20 marks, to the said Guild, for the purpose of supporting a learned man to teach grammar to all scholars resorting to Pocklington for such instruction. The Guild was dissolved in the 1st of Edw. VI. (1547), but in the 6th of that reign the school was re-constituted, as a Free Grammar School, under the patronage of St. John's College, Cambridge, and the lands of the Guild appropriated for its maintenance. These now produce nearly £900. a year. There is also a sum of money arising from the sale of a small portion of land, near York, to the Railway Company, invested in the funds, for re-investment in land at any favourable opportunity. The school has also £1. 16s. 8d. per annum, from land at Wetwang, left by the Rev. Thos. Mountforth. In addition to these estates, Dr. Dolman, in the 17th of Henry VIII. (1526), conveyed certain lands in Yorkshire and Derbyshire, now producing about £600. a year, to the Society of St. John's College, Cambridge, to provide five Scholarships at that College, for scholars proceeding from this school; those of his name and kindred to have the preference. These Scholarships are now of inadequate value, but it is confidently expected, that by the operation of the commission to be appointed when a Bill regarding the University of Cambridge, now in agitation, shall have received the assent of the legislature, the greater portion of this large sum will be actually engaged in the way of Exhibitions, by scholars proceeding from Pocklington.

The Master of this school is appointed by the Master and Fellows of St. John's College, and the Usher is nominated by the Master and the Churchwardens, who, with the Vicar of Pocklington, have the right of filling up vacancies in the five collegiate Scholarships. The present Corporation of Master and Usher still use the seal of the original guild, which is circular, having figures of Our Saviour, between the Blessed Virgin and St. Nicholas, in the centre; and beneath, the founder kneeling. Legend-Sigillum Commune Fraternitas Nominis Jhesus Beatæ Mariæ Sancti Nicholai de Pocklington. The school buildings have been, since the appointment of the present Master (the Rev. F. J. Gruggen, M.A., late Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, and late Tutor of St. Bees' College, Cumberland), rebuilt and greatly enlarged. They are now both ample and convenient, a sum exceeding £2,000. having been laid out upon them, none of which has been charged upon the property of the school. The present Usher is the Rev. E. B. Slater, M.A., late Fellow of St. John's College. The school is now in a rapidly improving condition, and some of those who have recently proceeded from it to the University, are obtaining for themselves considerable honours and emoluments there. The number of free scholars is unlimited. There is no charge whatever for classical tuition, and mathematics and the ordinary branches of an English education are also taught without charge to the sons of all persons who have been inhabitants of Pocklington, or its neighbourhood, for three years. The boys are required either to live with one of the masters, or to return daily to their own homes. There is accommodation in the head master's house for about forty boarders, and the terms are sixty guineas a year.

The new National Schools, for 100 boys, 70 girls, and 100 infants, to gether with a house for the master, were erected in 1844, at a cost, including the value of the site, of more than £1,400. Of this sum, the Committee of Council paid £631.; and the National Society contributed £60. The site was presented by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners (lately holders of land in the parish) and the Hon. Captain A. Duncombe, their lessee.

The Institution of Science and Literature numbers upwards of 400 members, of which the Rev. Thomas Rankin is president. The Odd Fellows' Hall was erected in 1839, and is let for public meetings, lectures, &c. In it about once a month is held the County Court, before Wm. Raines, Esq., judge, or his deputy. The Pocklington Poor Law Union comprises 47 parishes and townships, embracing an area of 158 square miles. The Union Workhouse was erected in 1852, and will accommodate 113 paupers. Chairman of the Board of Guardians, Charles Albert Darley, Esq.

The Townships of Yapham and Meltonby constitute a Chapelry, and contain 1,818 acres. The Hamlet of Meltonby is small, and stands about 24 miles N. by W. of Pocklington; and that of Yapham, 2 miles N.W. of Pocklington. Population of Yapham, 151 persons; of Meltonby, 51 souls.

The Chapel was rebuilt in 1777-8, and consists of a nave and chancel, with a bell turret at the west end. The Curacy is united to the Vicarage of Pocklington. The rent of the Chapel Lands, allotted at the enclosure in 1733, are expended in repairing the chapel, feeding the poor, and a portion of it is paid to the schoolmaster.

Ousthorpe Township, which contains 330 acres, 2 houses, and 13 inhabitants, is situated 2 miles N.E. by N. of Pocklington. The land belongs to Admiral Mitford. Here are some traces of a large moated mansion.

SUTTON-UPON-DERWENT. -This parish includes the hamlet of Woodhouse, and contains 3,360 acres, and 367 inhabitants, 42 of whom belong to Woodhouse. The rateable value is £3,271. The entire township, except 42 acres, belongs to Rd. Goddard Hare Clarges, Esq., the Lord of the Manor.

The Living is a Rectory, valued at £14. 14s. 7d., in the patronage of the Lord of the Manor, and incumbency of the Rev. Geo. Rudston Read. The tithes of Sutton township were commuted at the enclosure in 1776, for 1944. 2R. 33P. of land, and a yearly modus of £58. 4s., but the Woodhouse