G * } P* ° ?ཉྙ'མཱ་ སི ས་ ན་རྣམས account; for one of them has I. Phillip under the figures. They may be read thus. THE FIRST TABLE. "I do make this, that JAMES PHILLIP, JOHN PHILLIP his Son, CHRISTOPHER PHILLIP and THOMAS PHILLIP his Sons, shall flee Richmond. shire, and nothing prosper with any of them in Richmondshire." THE SECOND TABLE. "I did make this, that the Father JAMES PHILLIP, JOHN PHILLIP, ARTHUR PHILLIP, and all the issue of them, shall come presently to utter Beggary, and nothing joy or prosper with them in Richmondshire. Signed, I. PHILLIP." HENRY, the third Son of JAMES, as men. tioned in the Pedigree, is not included in these denunciations, being probably dead at the time his cousin John made them. James the Father was living at Brignall in 1561, having that year a grant of coat armour by William Flower, Norroy King at Arms, viz. azure, three Falcons argent, beaked and belled or; crest, on a wreath a demi horse rampant, holding in his mouth a broken spear, broken in two. All argent." THE Family of Phillip has been some time extinct, and the Estate now (1789) belongs to Sir John Eden, Bart. In the Pedigree of the late Sir Thomas Robinson, of Rookby, Bart. printed in the Baronetage, Agnes, the eldest daughter of James Phillip, is called an heiress, and the Family of Robinson in her right has quartered the Arms of Phillip, if she was. The anathema pronounced against her Brothers had full effect, as they and all their children must soon after the making of these Magical Tables by John have died issueless." THE walk is now continued by the side of the River, till it reaches the respectable looking ruins of ST. AGATHA'S ABBEY, "Which, when deck'd with all its Spires, <Serv'd but to feed some pamper'd Abbot's pride, And awe th' unletter'd vulgar." These venerable remains cannot fail to strike the mind with awe on contemplating the munificence and piety of our forefathers, and awaken sentiments of regret, that this stately building was not permitted any longer to ornament the country. This House is often called EASEBY ABBEY, owing to its situation near the small village of that name, by which it is now most generally known. It was founded about the year 1152 by Roaldus, Constable of Richmond Castle, and dedicated to St. Agatha, who was born in Sicily, and died about the year 253. No idea of local mortification seems to have entered into the founder's views, as the place which he has chosen, is pleasantly situated near the river, and sheltered from every cold blast; and where health, fertility of soil, and pleasing prospects without the walls have been in a great degree consulted. Roger de Mowbray, Alan Bygod and many others were great Benefactors, whose acts were confirmed by EDWARD III. It was inhabited by Canons of the Præmonstratensian order, or Monks of Præmonstre in Picardy. They were also called White Canons from their habit, which was a white cassoc with a rocket over it, a long white cloak and white cap. This order, which lived according to the rule of St. Austin, was reformed by St. Norbert, afterwards Bishop of Madgeburg, who set up this regulation about the year 1120 at Præmonstratum, in the Diocese of Laon, in Picardy. The severe laws which he made, did not long survive their austere fouuder. The fame of this order spread through |