situated, and commands a fine and extensive view of the country around. On the pillar of an antique sun dial in the garden is inscribed, 1678.

The Crow Trees is the name of a respectable farm-house of the Elizabethan age, surrounded by a grove of sycamores, in which a colony of rooks make abode. This estate has been for a long time in possession of the family of Andrew. Tradition relates that the first of the name who settled here was a Scottish officer, who had been detained for some time a prisoner in Pontefract Castle, and after his release purchased a small estate here and made it his home. It is also said that a member of this family, named William, was murdered on Scotton Moor, about the year 1650, on his return from Knaresborough, at which town he had been to be sworn in constable. We find their names in the registers of Hampsthwaite as early as 1610, which is probably soon after the time of their settlement here. The owners of this estate for many generations in succession have borne the name of William; the present owner being the Rev. William Andrew, Incumbent of Trinity Church, West Hartlepool.

The western side of this township rises into high lands,-at Swarcliffe Top to 665, and near Slack Hill to 750 feet above the sea level. Here are some extensive plantations, and occasional patches of wild, rocky land; and consequently the contrast is great between the lower and higher portions of the districtthe first being low, warm, well cultivated, and beautiful; the other high, cold, and comparatively barren.

The narrow arch leading across the river Nidd into Hartwith, adapted only for foot and horsemen, may be taken as a fair representative of the age when nearly all the trade of the country was carried on by pack horses.

The population of this township in 1801 was 630; in 1811, 694; in 1821, 621; in 1831, 747; in 1841, 676; in 1851, 630; and in 1861, 655.

The area is upwards of 1,800 acres.

The assessment to the

county rate in 1849 was £2,254; in 1859, £2,761; and in 1867, £2,999. The amount rated to property tax, in 1858, was £3,049.

MENWITH-WITH-DARLEY.

THESE two places form one township in the Pateley Bridge Poor Law Union, and Chapelry of Thornthwaite. On the north the boundary is formed by Darley Beck, which divides it from Dacre; on the cast it abuts on Birstwith; on the west on Thornthwaite; and on the south on Fewston. Neither of these places is mentioned in the Domesday survey; probably at that time the greatest part of the district was a waste wilderness. The first time we find them mentioned is in 1299, in the Inquisition on the death of Edmund, Earl of Cornwall, when both names are rolled into one, and it is written Derlemonewith. In 1318, we find the names distinct, Darley and Menwiche. The meaning of the first appears to be "the field of deer," the second, "the stony wood,"-names sufficiently descriptive of their state in the ancient forest day. This township occupies the southern slope of a lateral valley, which opens from the westward into the main valley of the Nidd; and the stream that flows at the bottom has been taken advantage of for manufacturing purposes-for the spinning of flax and the grinding of corn.

A portion of this township, from Fringill eastward to the boundary of Birstwith, is known as Holme, or the Holme. In early times a large part of this belonged to a respectable family

of the name of Leuty. We find their names in the Hampsthwaite parish registers from their commencement, and they resided here before that time.

In 18th Elizabeth, A.D. 1575, Richard Leuty and other copyhold and customary tenants of the Forest of Knaresborough, were defendants in a suit in the court of the Duchy of Lancaster (Catherine Beckwith being plaintiff), respecting suit and mulcture of a water corn mill, called Angram Mill, at Hampsthwaite. In the following year Wilfrid Leuty was plaintiff in a suit, in the same court, against Thomas Beckwith; the cause being two closes of land at Burnt Yates, and right of way through Clint Hall Closes.

In 1597, William Leuty and one of his daughters were cruelly murdered here. In 1655, Isabel Leuty married William Bilton, of Birst with, which was the second intermarriage with that family. In 1677, William Leuty, whose wife was Elizabeth Day, built the house here. In 1678, Susanna Leuty, of Holme, made her will, by which she gave legacies to twenty-two persons-two of whom were William Leuty, senior and junior, and five of them were to her relations, the Biltons, and William Bilton, junior, was appointed sole executor. In the Inventory she is styled "Susanna Leuty, wid., late wife of William Leuty, of Holme."

13th Oct., 1709. Richard Wood and Elizabeth, his wife, surrender the half of one messuage three roods and one pole of land in hamletta de Menwith cum Darley, infra vill. de Thruscross," then occupied by John Greaves, to the use of William Lewty, of Holme, his heirs or assigns.*

20th Feb., 1716-7. Henry Rawson, sen., of Holme, "in periculo mortis," surrenders half a messuage and two and a half acres of land in Menwith and Darley, to the use of William

*"Knaresborough Court Rolls," vol. i., p. 63.

Lewty, of Holme, junior, and Robert Pullen, of Kettlesing, upon trust, to sell the same after the decease of the said Henry.

12th Feb., 1717-8. Robert Pullen and William Leuty, junior, surrender "dimidium unius mesuagium, et dua horrea, et quædam clausura, vocata New Field, Backside Pasture, Bridge Field, Little Close, Long Close, et Far Close, et unum parcellum, vocatum Orchard," containing two and a half acres, in Menwith and Darley (then occupied by — Rawson), to the use of William Leuty, senior.

In 1725, Thomas Leuty built the gallery in Hampsthwaite Church, at his own charge. There is an inscription in the same church to the memory of Mary Leuty, relict of Mr. William Leuty, of Holme, Gentleman; she died December 16th, 1768, aged 76. A brass plate in the same church, that was formerly fixed upon an alabaster tomb in the churchyard, which has perished, bears the following inscription, "Here also lie interred the remains of William Leuty, of the Holm, in this parish, Gentleman, father of the above named William Leuty, who departed this life the 30th day of January, in the 61st year of his age, and in the year of our Lord 1747.

Animæ super eitheræ vivunt."

On the extinction of the family of Leuty the estate passed to that of Smithson; afterwards to that of Barstow, of Carlton, near Otley, a daughter of whom married Mr. Skelton, of Leeds, who had an only daughter now named Mrs. Blackburn, the present owner.

The house, sometimes called Holme Hall, is now occupied by Mr. Charles Pullan, whose ancestors have occupied the same for four generations; it is two stories in height in front, but only one at the back; one of the front windows is of ten lights, which appears to have lighted the principal apartment; another is of five lights; those into the upper rooms are only of four