about forty yards, in the widest part, in another. The middle mound is very remarkable from the flat area on its summit, which does not appear to have ever been otherwise than as it is at present; it is also of an oval form, thirty yards across in one direction, by eighteen in the other; on the north side the ascent is composed of broken terraces, and fronts the valley; the trench around the other portion is at least fifteen feet deep, and upwards of ten wide, near the bottom, The smallest mound is close to the last-a barrow of the common conical form, about fifteen yards in diameter at the base, with a cuplike cavity in the centre of the top. The trench from which it has been thrown is equally deep with that of the last mentioned. A few stunted thorns grow upon the last, and gorse bushes on the others; the sides are pierced by the burrows of numerous rabbits, which rear their young within those ancient receptacles of the dead. How extraordinary it is to find such works of man in such a silent solitude as this! In this wild uncultured spot, where rarely at present a human being is seen, and where a human dwelling cannot be discerned. nearer than at a mile's distance; at a period beyond the earliest records of our history, hundreds of anxious beings must have laboured in the formation of these mounds, and a numerous tribe must have resided in the neighbourhood, to render such funeral monuments necessary or possible; for we can say, without fear of successful contradiction, here are deposited "The patriarchs of the infant world, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, On the opposite side of the valley to these tumuli, on a piece of rugged, uncultivated ground, the very remarkable phenomenon of an aerial army was witnessed on the 28th of June, 1812, by Anthony Jackson and Martin Turner, two farmers resident in the park, while attending to their cattle. on the evening of that day. They saw at some distance what appeared to be a large body of armed men in white uniform; in the centre of which was a person of commanding aspect, dressed in scarlet. After performing various evolutions, the whole body began to move forward in perfect order towards the summit of the hill, passing the two terrified spectators crouched among the heather at the distance of one hundred yards. No sooner had this first body, which extended four deep over an enclosure of thirty acres, attained the hill, than a second body, far more numerous than the former, dressed in a uniform of a dark colour, appeared and marched after the first to the top of the hill, where they both joined, and passing down the opposite slope, disappeared; when a column of thick mist overspread the ground where they had been seen. The time from the first appearance of this strange phenomenon to the clearing away of the mist was about five minutes, as near as the spectators could judge, though they were not in a "proper mood of mind" for forming correct estimates of time or numbers. They were men of undoubted veracity, and utterly incapable of fabricating such a story. We never could learn that any similar appearances, due to skyey influences, have been since seen on the same ground. As this appearance took place during the Luddite disturbances, might not a number of those men be practising military evolutions amongst the West Riding hills, and their forms, defined upon a body of cloud, again be mirrored here? It is admitted on all hands that this class of phenomena are produced by optical refraction and reflection. On the southern side of this district, near the farm called Haverah Park Lodge, is a reservoir belonging to the Harrogate Waterworks Company, formed in 1866-7, covering about seven acres, and capable of containing twenty millions of gallons. The water is of excellent quality-being, as it were, filtered through the millstone-grit rock. Almost close to this reservoir is a fine group of rocks, among which are a Druidical idol and altar, yet complete. These, taken in connection with the tumuli at Pippin Castle, and the British dwellings called "The Bank," in Norwood, form an interesting study for the antiquary, A festive meeting of the male population of the park takes place at some one of the farm-houses once a year; when a plenteous dinner is provided, and the appendages thereto are all that the heart of a sturdy English yeoman can desire; for the dwellers in the park generally are neither poor no deficie t in hospitality. One peculiarity of this social gathering is, the no ladies are permitted to partake of it-only one or two to wait upon "those proud lords of creation" while they sit at meat. This meeting, which bears the name of Haverah Park Feast, generally takes place on the 25th of March; and probably had its origin in some remote period when the park keepers and foresters assembled together, and "Revelled as merrily and well As those that sat in lordly selle." The population of this district is slightly on the increase: in 1801, it was 71; in 1831, 96; and in 1861, 100. The valuation to the income tax, in 1858, was £1,323; and to the county rate, in 1866, £1,297. KILLINGHALL. KILLINGHALL✶ is a township in the parish of Ripley; bounded on the east and north by the river Nidd; on the west by Hampsthwaite; and on the south by Oakbeck, which divides it from Harrogate. This place is very imperfectly described in the Domesday survey. Amongst the lands of the king, after the description of the manor of Burc, or Aldburgh, occurs-"! "To this manor belongs the soke of Chenehalle, one carucate." Again, among the lands of the Archbishop of York, in the enumeration of the berewics belonging to the Leuga of St. Wilfrid of Ripon, we find "Kilingala," which certainly means this place. Afterwards, in the summary, we find the archbishop's portion stated to be one carucate. The whole of it subsequently formed part of the Forest of Knaresborough, and consequently always passed with that fee; and at present is divided among many owners. This village was for a long time the seat of a branch of the ancient and respectable family of Pulleine, the present Written at different times, Chenihalle, Kelengala, Kellingholm, Kellingale, Kelinghalle. Though many different derivations have been given, it is evidently a compound term, descriptive of the Saxon manor house, and its situation-the hall by the keld, or spring, in the ing, or meadow. +"Bawdwen's Dom. Boc.," p. 16. This family, under the different spellings of Pulleyne, Pulane, Pullaine, Polleyne, Pullan, Pullen, &o., are a numerous race in and around the Forest of Knaresborough, and have been so from very early times. representative of which is James Pulleine, Esq., of Crakehall and Clifton Castle. The pedigree begins with Richard Pulleine, of Killinghall,* who married Eleanor, daughter of John Rudd, of the same place, and had a son, John Pulleine, who was Recorder of York from 1533 to 1537.t He married Jane, daughter of Thomas Ros, of Ingmanthorpe, by whom he had four sons and six daughters— James, his heir. Marmaduke, in holy orders, Rector of Ripley from 1552 to 1554, when he was deprived. Richard and Thomas; both died unmarried. We suspect that "Dom. Joh. Pulleyne," vicar of Fewston from 1545 to 1583, and his successor Henry Pulleyne, who held the same vicarage from 1583 to 1591, were both of this family, though not mentioned in the pedigree. In one of the windows of Newhall, in Little Timble, close to Fewston, the crest of the family of Pulleyne, in stained glass, yet remains. + The following extract from the minutes of the Corporation of the city of York, will show the importance of the recorder to the city, as well as in his own estimation "31st Jany., 28 Hen. VIII. Item, it is agreyd that Mr. Pulleyn, Recorder, shall be sent for in all the haist posyble to come to this Citie, in all haiste convenyint, to give his counsell in dyverse and especiall bisynes concernying this said citie." "Saturday, 10 Feby. (following). Md. ther was a letter sent unto Mr. John Pulleyn, Recorder of this Citie, from my lorde Mayer and his Brethren, that he shuld in any wyse com to this Citie in all the haist convenyent, to gyve his counsell both as concernyng the late Eleccion of two Aldermen of this Citie, and also for other thinges concernyng this said Citie, orells they wold seke further counsell if that he can not. And theruppon he sen a letter of his aunswer therin, the tenor whereof herafter folowith 'To my lorde Mayer of the Citie of Yorke. My lorde Mayer, I recomend me unto you with knawlege that I have resavyd yor letter, whereby ye wold have had me to be wt you this mornyng. My lorde, I dowt not ye have in yor remembrance that I was wt yov V. days laitlie, to my charge nee iiij nobles wtout recompence, and ever sens my comyng home I myght not stond streyght up in my bake. Therfore, seyng I am agyd and may not well labor, ye may at yor pleasor taike suche counsell as will serve you to the worship of this Citie, according to yor letter, in the name of God. At my power howse at Kyllynghall, this present Fryday, in the mornyng. Yors, John Pulleyn.'" -R. H. Scaife. |