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The following have been either issued or are in the press:-YorkSt. Michael-le-Belfrey, Burton Fleming, Horbury, Winestead, Linton-in-Craven, Stokesley, Patrington, Blacktoft, Scorborough, Bingley, Kippax, Hampsthwaite, Wathon-Dearne, and Brantingham. Subscription, One Guinea per annum. President: Sir GEORGE ARMYTAGE, Bart.; Hon. Treasurer: J. W. FOURNESS, Victoria Chambers, South Parade, Leeds; Hon. Secretaries: FRANCIS COLLINS, M.D., Pateley Bridge; G. D. LUMB, 65, Albion Street, Leeds, to whom applications for membership should be sent. HUMBERSTON'S SURVEY. AFTER the suppression of the rebellion, which raged in the north of England during the months of November and December, 1569, usually called the Rising in the North, the estates of the leaders were forfeited by their subsequent attainders, and came into the hands of Queen Elizabeth. With the object of ascertaining their value and condition she sent, in the spring of the following year, certain Commissioners to survey them. The Commission was issued on March 10, 1569-70, and directed to Edmund Hall and William Humberston. The return made by these two Commissioners, in two volumes, is preserved amongst the Exchequer papers in the Public Record Office, and is known by the title of "Humberston's Survey.” The parts printed here are taken from the first volume. Although he has given his name to the survey, nothing seems known about Humberston. Of his companion, Hall, we have somewhat more information. Lord Clinton, the Lord High Admiral, writing to the Earl of Sussex, the President of the North, in December, 1569, calls him a person of very good credit, and says he is competent to give explanation of the letters he was carrying. He had been a hard worker from his youth, so much so that he felt himself incompetent to undertake such an important business as this survey. His doubts as to his fitness did not prevent him from doing his duty. He arrived in York on Thursday, April 30th, and found his fellowCommissioner, Humberston, who had arrived a couple of days before, awaiting him. In the letter printed at end of this article, and dated April 23, 1570, Hall gives Sir William Cecil, afterwards Lord Burleigh, an account of how he and Humberston had been carrying out the survey. In another letter, dated at Scrooby, on Wednesday, July 21, he writes again to Cecil, "Humberston and I have gone through all the offenders' lands in Yorkshire, Cumberland, West 1 In the Calendar of State Papers (Domestic), Elizabeth, Addenda, page 260, another commission is given. March 18, 1570. Commission to Sir Thomas Gargrave, Edmund Hall, William Homberston, Richard Ashton, and John Jenkyns, to survey the lands of the Earls of Northumberland and Westmoreland, Leonard Dacre, and all others engaged in the late rebellion in the North, and VOL. XVII. 2 3 |