long since been sacrificed by the ruthless quarrymen. Here the names, initials, and footmarks, with various lovers' emblems and devices, were quaintly carved on the stone. Some of these were in full, with a date annexed, as, “1595. Theodocea Cecyll." "R. C. 1625," &c. Visiting Rosebury some time ago, we copied the following verbatim: "Augustus 24, 1817. Super hic saxeus reciprocus et inseparabilis concordia de amicitia confirmatus inter John Coates et Garbut Dixon." This inscription is engraved in large, deep, well-formed characters, on a block of sandstone, facing the west, and, if untouched by the rude hammers of the mercenaries, may endure for centuries.

It has long been in contemplation to erect on the summit of Rosebury a colossal statue in memory of the immortal Cook; but a government and nation which neglects men of genius when living can scarcely be expected to render them homage when dead. Cook truly has erected for himself an everlasting and imperishable monument—a monument more durable than marble or brass; but is it not disgraceful to a great and powerful country, that a man who nobly perished as a martyr for her good should be refused that fitting tribute to his fame-a column in his native vale to memorialise his achievements?

"Shall then no monumental stone be reared,

For him whom sages mourned and kings revered?
Cook needs no borrowed glory from our hand,
His fame immortal shines in every land."

WINTER'S Harp of St. Hilda.

Population of Newton 1801, 149; in 1841, 147; acres, 1440; property assessed, 9377. 7s.; tithes ditto, 457.; voters, 6.2

1 In the churchyard of Kirkby, near Stokesley, we had previously observed the tombstone of this Garbut Dixon, who died at the early age of thirty-seven or thirty-eight. He was reported to us as a person of excellent talents, but somewhat licentious and a freethinker.

2 Since writing the above, we have stumbled upon the old-fashioned little story of Margery Moorpoot, 10th edition, which we quote in connexion with Rosebury, and as a correct specimen of the broad dialect of this district :

:

"Gulwell. What countrywoman are you?

Margery. Ah's Yorkshur, by mah truly! Ah wor boorn and bred at Lahtle Yatton, aside o' Roseberry Toppin.

Gulwell. Roseberry Toppin! Where's that, my pretty maid?

Margery. Sartainly, man, ye knaw Roseberry! Ah thowght onny feeal hed knawn Roseberry. It's 't biggest hill i' all Yorkshur. It's aboon a mahle an' a hawf heegh, an' as cawd as ice at t' top on't, i' t' yattest day i' summer; that it is.

Gulwell. You've been in some service, I suppose ?

Neea makkins! Ah'd a God's

Margery. Hey, Ah'll uphod ye hev E, ivver sin E wor neen yeear awd. penny at Stowsley market, hawf a yeear afoore 'at E wor neen; an' as good a sarvant Ah've been, thof Ah say it mysel, as ivver com within a pair o' deers. Ah can milk, ken, fother, beeak, brew, sheear, winder, caird, spin, knit, sew, an' deea ivvery thing 'at belangs tiv a husbandman, as weel as onny lass at ivver ware clogshune; an' as to mah charicter, Ah defy onny body, gentle or simple, to say black's mah nail."

SCENDING a lofty range of hills, via Hutton Lowcross, we pass over

a long barren heath, interspersed at remote intervals with fir-groves, and at length descending by an almost precipitous path, we discover the romantic village of Kildale, seated in a lovely secluded vale, between the towering heights of Kempswithen and Percy Cross, with the parish of Ayton to the west, and Commondale to the east.

Domesday informs us, that Ligulf had 6 car. here to be taxed, with land to 3 pl. Orme had also 1 pl. and 8 bordars, with 2 pl. There was a priest and a church. The manor 2 miles long and 2 miles broad; value in the time of Edward the Confessor, 16s.; time of the Conqueror, 20s. Robert de Brus had afterwards 3 car., having displaced Ligulf, one of the old Saxon lords.

The Percy family then held possessions here, probably through the marriage of Isabella, daughter of Adam de Brus, to Henry, son of Joceline de Louvaine, according to the rare pedigree annexed.

That industrious and erudite antiquary Leland did not penetrate into the interior of Cleveland; hence we have no notice of its ancient and venerable remains; and the only mention of Kildale Castle appears briefly in Camden: "Beneath this (Ounesbery, Rosebury) stands Kildale, a castle belonging to the Percies, earls of Northumberland." The raised mound, covered with a small plantation of trees, the ruined moat, and dismantled outworks, may still be distinctly traced; but not one stone stands upon another as a vestige of the stately fortress of this renowned and chivalric family.

About the year 1660, John Turner, Esq., of Kirkleatham, sergeant-at-law, purchased the estate and manor of Algernon Percy, com. Northumberland and lord of Kildale;

PEDIGREE OF PERCY OF KILDALE, &c.

William, lord de Percy, a small town in Normandy, entered with the Conqueror; shortly afterwards refounded Whitby Abbey, and perished in the crusades at Mountjoy, near Jerusalem.'

Emma de la Porte, lady of Seymer, &c.; buried at Whitby.

Alicia, dr. of Lord
de Roos.2

Alan, surnamed De Meschin.
Walter, or De Rugemund.

Robert.
Gaufrid.

T

William de Percy; buried at Whitby.

Alan de Percy; buried at Whitby.

Geoffrey.
Henry.

Richard, lord de Percy; buried at Whitby.Joanna, dr. of William de Brus.

Robert.

William de Percy; founded Grendal or Handale Abbey, 1133, in honour of the Virgin Mary. —“ Maria uxor ejus.”

William de Percy; gave the church of Crathorne to the Johanna, dr. of William Brewer; sister and
Abbey of Gisborough before 1226.
heiress of William Brewer, jun.

Sir Walter Percy, lord of.
Kildale in Cleveland.

Robert.
Richard.

William; died s. p.
Matilda.

Alexander.

Adeliza.
Eleonora.

Henry Percy; living 15 Hen. III.

Alice; mar. Adam de Stanley.

Henry de Percy, ancestor to the Earls of Northumberland, who, about the fifteenth century, again became lords of Kildale on failure of issue.3 William de Percy, lord of Kildale, 1252; held, in 13 Edw. I., one knight's fee in Nun-.. thorp, Upsall, and Arusum; also one knight's fee in Kildale, Crathorne, Berwick-on-Tees, Ormesby, Normanby, and Lazenby, in Cleveland; also lord of the manor of Battersby. Presented to Kildale rectory, 1280.*

1 William de Percy, fifth in descent from Galfred, or Gefferey de Percy, son of Mainfred, assisted in the Conquest of England, and had given him the large possessions in Yorkshire of Emma de Porte (so the Norman writers name her), whose father, a great Saxon lord, had been slain fighting along with Harold. This young lady, William, from a principle of honour and generosity, married; for, having had all her lands bestowed upon him by the Conqueror, "he (to use the words of the old Whitby chronicle) wedded hyr that was very heire to them, in discharging of his conscience.' (See Harl. MSS. 692 (26), and Dr. Percy's note to the Hermit of Warkworth.) Dugdale, vol. i. p. 463, says she belonged to an illustrious Norman family of that age, which is incompatible with the facts we have quoted. Charlton (Hist. Whitby, p. 50) fancifully supposes that she" took the name of Emma de Porte from her being lady or mistress of the port of Whitby, near which she then lived." We learn from Dugdale, however, that the family residence was at Topcliff, afterwards the chief seat of the Percys; and as to the other supposition, Whitby could scarcely be called a port, or any thing else at the time of the Conquest.

2 In the windows of the choir of Nunnington Church, near Helmsley, formerly the property of the Lords de Roos, were the following, viz.: 1. Or, on a fesse between two chevrons, three mullets of six poynts pierced, arg. 2. Gules, a lion rampant, or. 3. B. a fesse ent, three crescents arg. 4. (on the north window) Barry of ten or, and B, three chaplets of four roses or: Lord Roos, Lord Wake, Lord Vescy, Lord Percy. (Dodsworth's MSS.) 3 Henry Percy, great grandson of Josceline of Louvaine, had summons to parliament the 27 Edw. I. to 8 Edw. II., the year after which he died. In 26 Edw. I. he was summoned to Carlisle, equis et armis. In the 29 Edw. I. he was one of the nobles who subscribed the famous letter to the pope in the parliament at Lincoln, and subscribed himself" Henricus de Percy Dominus de Topclive," where the chief branch of the family long resided. He had summons to the coronation of Edw. II. Henry lord Percy, his son, was slain at the battle of Shrewsbury; his grandson was slain at St. Albans, and the third Earl of Northumberland was slain at the battle of Towton.

4 This William de Percy obtained the grant of a market and fair at Kildale, with free warren there, and in Killingwyke, and Ormsby Manor, in 37 Hen. III., 1252-3. "13 Edw. I. Ebor. 33, Will'us Percy de Kildale: Crathorne maner', Ormesby maner', Kildale maner'." (Post Mortem Inquisitiones, in the Tower.)

5 See Charlton's History of Whitby, pp. 240-244, containing an enumeration of charters.

6 The other presentations are: "Brian Young, pbr. 1508, pres. assig. T. Percy, ar.;" "William Johnson, pbr. 1556, pres. Eleanor relict. T. Percy;" "John Leake, B.A. 1618. pres. Henry Percy, comes, North; and lastly, Robert Henderson, el. 1637, pres. Algernon Percy, com. North" There is another blank presentation, which had doubtless been filled up by Josceline Percy, son of the aforesaid Algernon Percy, who succeeded to the honours of the family, but dying in 1670 s. p, the earldom, with all the titles, granted by patent of Queen Mary, became extinct. The presentation afterwards fell to the Turner family, and now belongs to Mrs. Bell Livesey, of Kildale Hall.