east part at the outside of the wall. No. 7. az, a cross engrailed sa.” the station of the Chamberlain on the east part of Scolland near the oven. No. 8. az. on a fess sa. three bezants, the station of THOMAS DE BROUGH*, 燙 TRE Fee of Chamberlain is frequently met with, but it is not easy to say whose it was: it is only found. once, in Langthorne, with the name of the Chamberlain, which in that place is one Nigellas: yet there were at that time many Chamberlains of the Earl of Richmond namely, Robert, Ernald, and Ralph, whose son sécnis to have been this Nigellus, and also Ernaldus, Robert's son. Among the Villages of this Fee were, Kilwardeby, Askham, Eppleby upon Tees, and Feucotes, which, as they went afterwards to various possessors, leave the matter intirely in doubt. The arms which are here fixed to the Chamberlain, belong to one Conan de Kelfield, whose son Henry, the 15th of Edward I. had lands in the village of Eppleby, and Thomas, son of Henry, possessed the same in the reign of Richard II. This Chamberlain therefore will either be the father or perhaps Step-father of Conan, since the Fee of Chamberlain was divided between Richard le Scrope, Henry son of Hugo, and Thomas Fitz-Henry as the inheritance of three Sisters, co-heiresses. It is to be remarked that the Seneschal, Butler, and Chamberlain held their lands, not by virtue of their offices, but by military service. * THOMAS DE BROUGH lived in the reigns of Henry II. his sons and grandson; was Seneschal of the Honour of Seneschal, on the west part of the greater Chapel near the Canons within the walls. The station of WALTER DE EGGLESCLIFFE," Bailiff, hetween the square Tower and drawbridge. All their Standards were displayed at their respective quarters, when they came either to partake of the hospitable table of the Chief," or to take their turn of military duty in the Castle. SEVERAL articles of antiquity have been dis. covered at different times among the ruins, some of which have been privately carried off and kept hid, others have been laid up in the cabinets of the curious. In the year 1732, Mr. Wharton of Newcas tle, agent to the Duke of Richmond, by His Grace's directions, ordered several places about the Castle to be dug very deep, when a moat and draw-bridge of curious workmanship were discovered. A curious horn and a large silver spoon were Richmond, and signed the Deed of Alan, the Consta ble, with Torphinus, son of Robert, and with Copaf,” son of Elias. found, when part of the west-end of the Castle fell down, and were sent to the Duke of Richmond. Not long since, a sword was picked up by a Traveller, having a hilt gilt, and curiously ornamented: this was taken also to London. ABOUT thirty-five years ago, as a respectable Inhabitant of this town and one of his school. fellows were playing near the west wall of the Castle at breaking the hardest stones they could find, (or to use the juvenile expres.. sion fighting cocks") one of the stones contained a full grown live Toad, which was immediately destroyed the stone had a smooth cavity in the inside for the Toad to lie in: but it as well as the wonderful phænomenon it contained, were unthinkingly left, and no further notice of the circumstance taken at the time. THIS Castle has been long in ruins, which cannot be attributed to any remarkable siege or military assault, but rather to the want of repairs, occasioned by the desertion of its chief and his military followers. When the Earldom was granted, which was frequently the case, to a Prince who had foreign connexions or other paternal Castles, this place was no longer an object of attention; and the possessions being given away at various times, when repairs were wanted, there were no revenues to answer the demands; thus it gradually became uninhabit able, and when once deserted, ruin and delapidation very soon followed. That this was very early, the case there is no doubt, as Leland, who in the year 1534 received an order from HENRY VIII. to make a survey of the kingdom, mentions it in his Itinerary as a ruin at that time. The materials, when neglected and dispersed, were purloined or carried off either for the purpose of sale, or for the erection of more commodious habitations. The manners of men refining, and no longer afraid of hostile attacks, the large dreary rooms in Castles upon this extensive scale were no longer wanted ; and the convenient ornaments of sashes not being yet found out, the small narrow casements then in use made them very damp and gloomy lodgings, and only suitable to the inhabitants of those military and feudal ages, enured to brave the cold in camps and amidst the various employments of war. : THE Castle thus stripped of its splendour, and from being the Palace of a powerful Prince and the head of an extensive Shire, has fälten to its present degraded state, and become a striking memorial of worldly instability. The lapse of so many years has overthrown its strong and lofty Towers, and on every side are seen the dreadful ravages, which have been made and are daily making, in walls raised by the utmost skill and supported by all possible strength. After having stood the war of ele ments and the depredations of man above 740 years, nothing now is left, but a poor vestige of its former strength and magnificence, and remains a melancholy monument of the destructive hand of time, "Has moulder'd into beauty many a Tow'r |