A. D. 1674 ham. the materials were divided between them by the Sheriff of Yorkshire, in 1674. The manors of Old and New Malton were conveyed by marriage to William Palmes, Esq., by whom they were transferred to Sir Thomas Wentworth, whose descendant obtained the title of Lord Malton, and was subsequently created Marquis of Marquis Rockingham. On the death of the last marquis, in 1782, the title of Rockingbecame extinct, and the manor passed to his nephew, the late Earl Fitzwilliam. The town is pleasantly situated on elevated ground on the north side of the river Derwent, which forms a boundary between the East and North-ridings. The houses are generally well built; and many of them, both in the town and suburbs, are handsome, and of modern erection. A theatre was erected in 1814, but it has been converted into a Mechanics' Institution, consisting of 400 members, with a library of more than 1,000 volumes. The new Talbot Hotel is beautifully situated in elevated grounds, formed into a fine terrace, and affording a delightful promenade. A considerable trade in corn, butter, hams, and provisions, is carried on Trade, &c. with various towns in the West-riding, from which groceries, coal, woollen cloths, and various other articles, are received in return. There are two iron foundries, several flour mills, breweries, and large malting establishments. During the week before Palm Sunday, great numbers of horses are exhibited for sale. At the foot of an eminence called the Brows, is a chalybeate spring, with properties similar to the waters of Scarborough. The inhabitants Ancient had anciently a charter of incorporation, but it was forfeited in the Charter of Incorporareign of Charles II., and the town has since been under the control tion. of a bailiff, appointed by the lord of the manor. The borough returns two members; but its limits have been extended under the Reform Act, by the addition of Old Malton and Norton. The members for the place have since been as follows : In the year 1799, Malton was represented by that celebrated statesman, Edmund Burke. The Poor Law Union comprises sixty-eight parishes or places, Population. and in 1851, the population was 23,129, comprising 11,767 males, and 11,362 females. The number of houses at the same period was 4,755. CASTLE HOWARD, the far famed seat of the Earl of Carlisle, is Castle situated in the parish of Henderskelf, about seven miles from Howard. &c. A. D. 1731 Malton. This magnificent mansion was built between the years 1722 and 1731, from a design of Sir John Vanbrugh, in the same style as Blenheim House, in Oxfordshire, by the Right Hon. Charles Howard, the third Earl of Carlisle, on the site of the old Castle of Henderskelf, which was destroyed by an accidental fire. Castle Howard has a longer line of front than Blenheim House, and its exterior is extremely magnificent; the state apartments are particularly distinguished for grandeur of appearance; and the princely Paintings, collection of paintings, statues, busts, &c., with which the mansion is enriched, afford a high gratification to the admirers of the fine arts. The hall is thirty-five feet square, and sixty feet high, terminating at the top in a spacious dome, one hundred feet high, and adorned with columns of the Corinthian and Composite order. The walls are painted by Peligrini, with the history of Phaeton, &c., and the room is ornamented with several antique statues and Museum. busts. The museum, twenty-four feet square, and the antique gallery, 160 feet by 20, contain a vast assemblage of curiosities. In the south-west corner of the museum is a cylindrical altar, about four feet and a half high, which anciently stood in the temple of Delphi, brought from Italy, and was presented to the Lord of Castle Howard by the immortal Nelson. The taste displayed in the pleasure grounds corresponds with the magnificence of the house. The Park. The park is beautiful and extensive, and the scenery has been greatly improved by the addition of a fine sheet of water, at an appropriate distance from the south front. A beautiful intermixture of wood and lawn delights the eye; and the prospects are every where rich and full of pleasing variety. The ornamental buildings in the park are in a style of grandeur. In the centre of beautiful avenues, bordered on each side with lofty trees, and crossed at right angles, stands a stately quadrangular obelisk, 100 feet in height, erected in the year 1714, to commemorate the victories of John, Duke of Marlborough, and to fix the date of the erection of Castle Howard. Nearly opposite to the grand entrance, in the north front of the house, an elegant monument commemorates the victories of Lord Nelson. Those glorious names, Aboukir, Copenhagen, and Trafalgar, inscribed on three of its sides, in large gold characters, call to remembrance the achievements of the naval hero, and testify the patriotism of the noble proprietor of this mansion. About half a mile to the eastward of the house is an Ionic temple, with four porticos and a beautiful interior. The cornices of the door-cases are supported by Ionic columns of black and yellow marble; and in the corners of the room are pilasters. In Busts of niches over the doors are busts of Vespasian, Faustina, Trajan, and Vespasian, Sabina. The floor is disposed in compartments of antique marble Trajan, and of various colours, and the room is crowned with a dome, splendidly gilt. About a quarter of a mile farther, and nearly in the same direction, stands the Mausoleum, a circular building, above fifty Sabina. feet diameter, and surrounded with a handsome colonnade of Doric pillars. Over the vault is an elegant circular chapel; the cornice from which the dome rises is supported by eight Corinthian columns; and the ornamental carvings are light and pleasing. The height of the structure is ninety feet, that of the inside is sixty-eight; this is in different compartments inlaid with marble. Since the introduction of "Cheap Trips," by various railway companies, thousands of persons have visited Castle Howard, during the summer seasons, from all parts of the country, who, by the liberality of the noble proprietor, have had free access both to the grounds and mansion. A. D. 1714 Park. In the parish of Helmsley, sixteen miles from Malton, is DUN- Duncombe COMBE PARK, the seat of Lord Feversham. The mansion house, which was designed by Vanbrugh, but executed by Wakefield, and completed in 1718, is in the Doric order of architecture, and the front in particular is esteemed a happy specimen of architectural skill and combination. The hall is a magnificent room, sixty feet long and forty wide, surrounded by fourteen lofty Corinthian pillars, and ornamented with a number of busts of the Greek and Latin poets, with large medallions of the twelve Cæsars. The saloon is eighty-eight feet by twenty-four, and is formed into three divisions by Ionic pillars, and elegantly adorned with antique statues and family pictures. Communicating with the saloon on the north is a handsome dining-room, and to the south an elegant suite of apartments all appropriately furnished; but the most interesting part of the furniture is derived from the pencils of eminent painters, and consists in the valuable pictures which ornament the interior of this superb dwelling. The grounds are laid out with an elegance of taste equal to that which has been displayed in the selection of the paintings. The garden adjoining to the house has a terrace which affords many delightful prospects. From thence is seen an Beautiful Ionic Temple, which itself commands a variety of landscapes; a Scenery. beautiful valley winds at the base of a noble amphitheatre of hanging wood, and the opposite plantations, which spread over a fine extent of hill, fringe the shore of the Rye, which runs through the valley and forms almost in its centre a charming cascade. Nothing can be more truly beautiful than the assemblage of objects seen in a bird's eye view from this spot. This view is beheld with delightful variation in walking along the terrace to the Tuscan Temple, as fresh scenery breaks upon the eye almost at every step. The temple, situated at the point of a bold promontory, ornamented with stately plantations, and projected into a winding valley, commands the most sublime and beautiful scenes. The valley, the river, and the cascade, are seen beneath, and in the front the prospect extends and becomes beautifully variegated. The castle, Helmsley church, and the tower, appear in the midst, and the valley, there forming into a rich sequestered lawn, is well contrasted A. D. 1687 1138 Standard Hill. The Parish. with the rougher visage of the hilly moors which are seen in the distance. The beautiful monastic ruin of Rievaulx Abbey is two miles distant. The inimitable paintings of nature form its principal attractions, and the views from an Ionic temple, disclose a combination of beauties that must be seen to be enjoyed, and once seen can never be forgotten. The profligate Duke of Buckingham, one of the favourites of Charles II., died in an obscure inn at KirkbyMoor-Side, six miles from Helmsley, and was buried at Kirkby, on the 17th of April, 1687, as shown by an entry in the parish register. NORTHALLERTON. This town, which was a Roman Station, and subsequently a Saxon borough, is, in Domesday Book, called Alvertune and Alreton, the prefix having been applied to distinguish it from AllertonMauleverer. William Rufus gave the town, with the lands adjacent, to the see of Durham, and it ultimately became an episcopal residence. At Cowton Moor, about three miles distant, the celebrated battle of the Standard was fought, in 1138, between the English and the Scots, in which the latter were defeated with the loss of 10,000 men; the place is still called Standard Hill, and the holes into which the dead were thrown, the Scots' Pits. In the twelfth century, the episcopal palace, which had been strongly fortified, was twice demolished, and in 1318, the Scots plundered and burnt the town. During the Civil war Charles I. lodged here, in an old mansion called the Porch-House; and in the rebellion of 1745, the English army, under the Duke of Cumberland, encamped on the Castle Hills. The town is pleasantly situated close to the line of the Great Northern railway, and consists chiefly of one spacious street, half a mile in length, partially paved, containing some good houses. The principal branches of manufacture are those of tanning and the currying of leather; hand-loom linen weaving is carried on at Brompton. The fairs for horses are very numerously attended. The general quarter sessions for the North-riding are held here. The Sessions House is an elegant building, and annexed is a house of correction, on the plan of Mr. Howard, containing separate cells. To the west is the Registrar's Office for the North-riding; and there the Bishop of Ripon holds his courts. The parish comprises an extensive and fertile district, stretching sixteen miles from north to south, and between three and four from east to west; the surface is flat, except on the west, where it is hilly, and the soil near the town is a good loam. In addition to the Parish Church, there are chapels of ease at Brompton and Deighton, and also places of worship for dissenters. A. D. The Free Grammar School is a Royal foundation, and has an interest in five scholarships, at Peter House, Cambridge, and a contingent interest in twelve exhibitions to Lincoln College, Oxford. 1354 Dr. W. Palliser, Archbishop of Cashel; Dr George Hickes, Dean Eminent of Worcester; Dr. Thomas Burnet, Master of the Charter House, Men. London; Rymer, editor of the FEDRA; Dr. Radcliffe. and the Rev. John Kettlewell, were educated here. Edmund Guest, Bishop of Salisbury, almoner to Queen Elizabeth; Dr. Drake, the celebrated antiquary; and John Howarth, Esq., an eminent wit, and the friend of Burke and Sheridan, were born at Northallerton. Other schools have been established, at which the children of the humbler classes receive instruction; and provision is made for the poor by an hospital, and several bequests. There are some remains of a monastery of Carmelites, founded in 1354, and vestiges of a military road leading from Alby, through the town of Catterick, may be traced. In the 26th of Edward I., the borough sent two members to parliament; but for nearly 400 years, the privilege was intermitted, and was not resumed till the year 1610, by order of the House of Commons. Twenty years afterwards, Francis Lascelles, Esq., who represented the borough, was discharged from being a member, because he had not sat as one of the judges on the trial of Charles I. The place now returns only one member; and the right of election, which was formerly vested in the burgage holders, in number about 210, is now extended to the £10 householders of the townships of Northallerton and Romanby, and the chapelry of Brompton, which were made to constitute the new borough. The returning officer is a bailiff, appointed by the Bishop of Ripon. The first member under the Reform Act was Capt. J. G. Boss, R.N. and the borough has been represented by Wm. Battie Wrightson, Esq, since 1835. The Poor Law Union of Northallerton comprises forty-four. parishes or places, and in 1851, contained a population of 12,460, Population. of which 6,358 were males, and 6102 females. The number of houses was 2,831. Northallerton, in the reign of Quean Anne, gave the title of viscount to the Elector of Hanover, afterwards George I. OTLEY. This town is seated in the beautifully picturesque valley of the Wharfe, and on the south bank of that river, over which is a neat bridge of seven arches; it is small, but well built, and from its situation between the precipitous heights of Otley Chevin and Newall Carr, has a very romantic appearance. A new road to Leeds, avoiding the steep ascent of the Chevin, was completed in 1841, and has proved of great advantage. The river abounds with trout, &c., and, occasionally, salmon are taken in it near the town. In |