Above, are the founder's arms-a lion rampant, with eight crosslets in the field. Crest, a lion rising out of a ducal coronet.

The room containing the library is lofty and spacious with a pleasant look out towards the south. In the centre are the mahogany table and arm-chairs used at the meetings of the trustees. On the left hand are full length portraits of King Charles II. and Queen Caroline; on the back of the first, near the top, is inscribed :-" The gift of William Mountaine, Esqre., F.R.S., to Clint School, in par. Ripley, Com. Ebor. Aug. 26, 1771." Near the bottom, "K. George 2nd. An original by Maingaud, Sergeant Painter to King George I." The word "original" is struck out. The queen's portrait has the same inscriptions, retaining the word "original." These paintings have become much faded, and the frames tarnished. At the east end of the room are half-length portraits of William Mountaine and his wife, by "Highmore," senr. These are in good condition, having been recently cleaned and renovated by order of the trustees. The library consisted originally of 57 folios, 101 quartos, 344 octavos, 19 duodecimos, 20 miscellanies, 15 pamphlets, and 13 manuscripts*-in all, 569; besides a pair of globes, two telescopes, and other instruments. Time. has spoiled the globes, the telescopes have lost their lenses, but the books yet remain, generally in a good state of preservation. Inside every book is printed, "The gift of Wm. Mountaine, Esqre, F.R.S., to Burnt-Yates School, Par. of Ripley, W.

Some of the folios are ponderous affairs, consisting of nautical diagrams and charts, which have probably belonged to Admiral Long. The manuscripts are Dunstan's Juvenal, 3 vols.; Dunstan's Horace, 3 vols. ; Terence, 3 vols.; Homer, 1 vol.; Ovid, 1 vol.; all by Dunstan. Dunstan's Catalogue, 1 vol.; and Catalogue of Discourses for and against Popery, in the reign of James II. Among others, we noticed Cowley's Works, Chaucer's Works, Pembroke's Arcadia, Harris's Universal Lexicon, Cary's Chronology, &c., &c. For much information on this school, we are indebted to Mr. Clarke, the present master, to whom we take this opportunity of offering our sincere thanks.

Riding Ebor, 1775." Amongst them is a complete set of the "Transactions of the Royal Society," until the year 1778. There is not much light reading among them; but, on the whole, they are such as we might expect to find in the possession of a hard-working mathematician. The books may not be much read in the place where they are deposited; but have not Long and Mountaine set a noble example to great and learned men, in the height of their dignity and intellectual greatness, to remember and provide for the wants of the humble hamlets where they were born?

The Infant School, a substantial building of stone in the Tudor style of architecture, is situate about half a mile to the eastward of the other. Over the entrance is inscribed-" Infant School, built A.D. 1855, by the Trustees of Burnt-Yates School, founded by Admiral Long, R.N., A.D. 1760."

The charities consist of the rent of 4a. 2r. Op. of land, called the Hop Bank; Nelson's rent-charge of 20s. per annum, payable out of a piece of land, called Nelson's Land, near Shaw Mill; and William Mountaine's gift, in 1778, of the interest of £100,-the last to be distributed amongst twelve poor widows.

The Munk Wall passes close to the western end of Burnt Yates, and forms the boundary between the township of Clint and that of Hartwith-with-Winsley; it also formed the boundary between the lands of the monks of Fountains and the Forest of Knaresborough. The road passing through it at this point would necessitate the putting up of gates or yates, and some fray between the men of the monks and the foresters, in which the yates were torn down and burnt, probably gave name to this place.

There is a small payment, called Geld, made to the tax collector of Clint, by Sir Henry Ingilby, Bart., of Ripley Castle,

of 2d. each on two homesteads or farms in Scaro, the same number in Burfitt, and on three in some other part of Ripley. This Geld or tax we believe to be the old acknowledgement paid by the owners or occupiers of those particular farms, for the right or liberty of grazing their cattle on the unenclosed. grounds of Knaresborough Forest. A note in "Burton's Monasticon Eboracense" appears to prove the antiquity of this payment, and also to indicate its origin

"The tenants of the Abbot and Convent of Fountains residing in Ripelay, Byrthwaite, Grawra (Scarah or Scaro) and Broxholme, whether within the lordship of Ripelay or the village of Clint, pay their tax with Clynt, and make their constable with Clynt, and go with the men of Clint to the court of Knaresburgh, and are free from paying tolls at York and Burrough-bridge, and in all other places where the men of the forest have any such liberty; neither are they bound to attend to the customs of the lordship of Ripley. They had likewise liberty of getting turf at Bentwray, with a common right in the forest, as other foresters have, and therefore they pay the Rekpennys; and, except as above, they are not any way to interfere with the village of Clint."

The Geld and the Rekpenny are synonymous terms, both signifying a tax, or payment for some particular purpose.

The population of this township in 1801 was 430; in 1811, 395; in 1821, 412; in 1831, 404; in 1841, 393; in 1851, 434; and in 1861, 481.

The value of this township as assessed to the county rate in 1849 was £2,150; in 1859, £2,726; and in 1867, £3,140. Amount assessed to property tax in 1858, £2,973.

HAMPSTHWAITE.

THIS parish occupies a large portion of the northern side of the Forest of Knaresborough, and includes within its limits the townships of Hampsthwaite, Felliscliffe, Birstwith, Menwithwith-Darley, and Thornthwaite-with-Padside, which now form the three parishes of Hampsthwaite, Birstwith, and Thornthwaite. Hampsthwaite and Felliscliffe are in the Knaresborough Poorlaw Union; the others are in that of Pateley Bridge. Domesday survey of this parish is very imperfect; indeed, the township of Hampsthwaite, under its present name, is not mentioned at all; though it probably appears as a berewic belonging to the manor of Burc, under the name of Hilton or Elton.*

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The Roman road from Isurium to Olicana passed through the village, therefore, it could not be unknown to that people, and it is likely they would have some post-house, or small settlement at the point where the road crossed the river Nidd, which was probably only of a temporary kind, as no Roman remains have ever been found here.

In Birstwith, in this parish, and nowhere else in the manor of Burc or Aldburgh, is a place known as Elton, that is, the old-ton or town, where, at one time, stood a maypole and the village stocks. This we conjecture to have been the Hilton, or Elton of Domesday. As the manor of Burc, with its berewics, contained thirty-four carucates of land, there would be somewhere about 1,000 acres to reckon for Helton. The term Hampsthwaite appears to be of Saxon origin, and compounded from Ham, home, and thwaite, an open field, or cleared space of ground; that is, the home in the clearing.

On the formation of the Forest of Knaresborough the whole district was thrown into it, and ever afterwards formed a portion of that fee.

The following document has reference to lands here; it is dated 6th of Henry III., A.D. 1222.

"The king to Brian de Insula, greeting:

We command you that, respecting the forty-two acres of (arable) land, and the three acres and three perches of meadow, with their appurtenances in Hamestweit, of which Richard de Alneto was seized in demesne, and, according to the inquisition fully made to us, that except there be nearer heirs, you will give full possession of the land to Emma de Alneto, the daughter of the said Richard, unless she has done anything in the meantime on account of which she ought not to be put into possession of the said land. She obtained possession of the lands Jan. 3d., 1223."

About the year 1258, Richard, Earl of Cornwall, granted to the newly-founded, or enlarged monastery of the brethren of St. Robert of Knaresborough, the advowson of the church and pasturage for twenty cows with their calves for three years, in Hampsthwaite.

In the inquisition on the death of Edmund, Earl of Cornwall, A.D. 1299, we find all the townships in this parish mentioned, as Pateside, Thornthwaite, Derlemonewith (a rolling of two places into one, now known as Darley and Menwith), Felliscliffe, Berscate (Birstwith), and Hampsthwaite.

In the 12th of Edward II., A.D. 1318, Richard de Aldburgh, of Aldburgh, held to farm of the honor of Knaresborough, Hampeswate, Derlay, Menwiche, Berstok, and Fenniscliff, all in this parish.

The church, dedicated to St. Thomas á Beckett, was in the patronage of the Stutevilles, Lords of Knaresborough,