A. D. 1821 from the Dearne, by another company, having a capital of £9,000. The chapelry comprises by measurement 2,116 acres of rich and fertile land, in high cultivation; the surface is boldly varied, and the scenery in many parts picturesque. In the immediate vicinity is Wentworth Castle, the magnificent residence of F. T. W. V. Wentworth, Esq. This mansion, built by Thomas, Earl of Strafford, in 1730, contains one of the best galleries of pictures in the kingdom; and the interior, as well as the grounds, are, by the liberality of the owner, accessible to visitors, at prescribed periods, and of this privilege, great numbers from the surrounding districts constantly avail themselves. The mansion of Sir William Pilkington, Bart., at Chevet, possesses considerable attractions, both on account of its ancient character, and the beautiful park in which it stands. In 1837, Public Rooms, in the Grecian style, were erected Public in Barnsley, at an expense of £1,500, by a proprietary of £25 Buildings. shareholders. The building contains a subscription library and news-room, the latter of which is embellished with an original full length portrait of the Duke of Wellington, painted by W. P. Briggs, Esq., R.A., and a likeness of Archdeacon Corbett, by the same artist. The Court-house is a neat substantial building, erected in 1833, at an expense of £1,300, of which £500 were raised by rate, and the remainder by subscription. It contains various rooms for holding the courts, and for the transaction of public business; the hall contains a full length portrait of the late Lord Wharncliffe, by the artist above mentioned. There is also a Mechanics' Institution, a theatre, Odd-fellows hall, schools, and numerous charitable institutions, supported by property bequeathed in by-gone times. The town is within the liberty of the honour of Pontefract, and its management is vested in commissioners, chosen at the court of quarter sessions, under an act for lighting, paving, watching, and improving the place. The Church, dedicated to St. Mary, with the exception of the tower, has been re-built of freestone, found in the neighbourhood, at a cost of £12,000, raised by a rate on the inbabitants; it contains 1,050 sittings. The east window is embellished with paintings of our Saviour, the Virgin Mary, and the Four Evangelists, in stained glass. St. George's Church, a handsome structure, to which a district has been assigned, was erected in 1823, by the Parliamentary Commissioners, at an expense of £6,500; it contains 1,174 sittings, of which 790 are free. Other places of worship exist for the various denominations of dissenters. About a mile from the town are the remains of the Cluniac Priory of Monk Bretton, founded in the 3rd of Henry II., the revenue of which, at the dissolution, was £323 8s. 2d. We regret to say that within the last few years, an awful sacrifice of life has been occasioned by explosions in some of the coal mines near Barnsley, a notice of which appears in the first volume of the Annals. The population of the union, according to the census of Population. 1851, was 34,979, of which 17,936 were males, and 17,043 females. The number of houses at the same period was 6,962. A. D. 1840 BEDALE. This town, which has been considerably improved of late, is pleasantly situated on the banks of a stream flowing into the river Swale near Scruton, in the North-riding, and consists of one principal street, which is lighted with gas. The houses are in general of brick, and irregularly built; the air is pure, and the neighbourhood affords many pleasant walks and much picturesque scenery. Among the more recent buildings is a handsome structure, containing apartments for the savings' bank and a suite of assembly rooms. Several extensive woolstaplers carry on business here, and give employment to numerous woolcombers. The fair for cattle is the most considerable in the north of England; the horses exhibited for sale are generally of superior value, the surrounding country being famed for its breed of hunters and race horses. The church, which is of remarkable strength, having been used as a place of security from the incursions of the Scots, contains several interesting monuments, one of which is to the memory of Sir Brian Fitz-Alan, Lord-lieutenant of Scotland, in the reign of Edward I., who resided in a castle near the church, of which there are now no remains. A district church was erected at Crakehall, in 1840, and there are other places of worship for dissenters. The means of instruction are ample; and provision is made for the poor by means of hospitals and numerous bequests. Sir Christopher Wray, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench, in the reign of Elizabeth, was a native of this place. About five miles north-west of Bedale, is Hornby Castle, the seat of the Duke of Leeds. The apartments in this mansion are grand and superbly finished; the situation is commanding, and from the battlements are seen to great advantage the rich and picturesque valley of Bedale, stretching up to the western moors, forming a magnificent and imposing contrast. That well known thoroughfare, LeemingLane, is two miles from Bedale, and at easy distances are Masham and Middleham. At the last mentioned place, are the remains of a castle erected in 1190, near which is the loudest and most distinct echo ever heard. There is a tradition that this fortress was reduced to ruins by Oliver Cromwell, but it is unsupported by history. The beautiful ruin of Jerveaux Abbey is three miles from Middleham. The Union of Bedale, comprising twenty-three parishes or places, in 1851, contained a population of 8,972, of which 4,516 were males, and 4,456 females. The number of Population. houses at the same period was 2,005. BEVERLEY. From the woods which formerly covered this place, it was called DEIRWALDE, implying the forest of the Deiri, the ancient inhabitants of this part of the country, which is in the East-riding. Sub sequently, owing to the number of beavers with which the river Hull abounded, it was designated BEVERLEGA, and later still, BEVERLAC, from which its present name is deduced. One of the archbishops of York, after filling the see for thirty-three years, spent the remainder of his life in retirement and devotion here, and dying in 721, he was canonized by the title of St. John of Beverley. His memory was held in such veneration, that William the Conqueror, having advanced within seven miles of the town, gave strict orders to his army that they should not damage the church; the day of his death was appointed to be kept holy, and the festival of his translation, (October 25th) was, in 1416, ordered to be annually celebrated, in commemoration of the battle of Agincourt, which was superstitiously thought to have been gained through his intercession. Sir John Hotham, whose treachery to the parliament, when governor of Hull, during the civil war, was made prisoner at Beverley, to which he had fled on the discovery of his intention to surrender the former place into the hands of the royalists. A. D. 1416 The town, which is the capital of the East-riding, is pleasantly situated at the foot of the Wolds, in the heart of an extensive sporting district; the approach from the Driffield road is remarkably fine, having, particularly on the north-east side, many elegant buildings, and terminating in an ancient gategay leading into the town. On one of the pastures, called the " Hurn," about half a mile distant, races take place annually, and for the accommodation of the spectators, a commodious stand has been erected. The air is salubrious, and this, in addition to the other attractions possessed by Beverley, has long made it the favourite resort and residence of many highly respectable families. It is about a mile in length, and consists of several well-built streets, and some handsome and spacious public buildings; it is lighted with gas, and well supplied with water. Here are several tanneries, breweries, and large malt-kilns, numerous corn mills, a foundry, and two large establishments for the manufacture of paint, colour, cement, and Paris white, the last of which is made from excellent chalk rock, obtained about a mile south of the town. Here are also manufactures of coarse linen and sacking, and numerous poor persons are employed in the market gardens and nurseries in the vicinity. By a canal called Beverley Beck, the town is connected with the river Hull, and the port of Kingston-upon-Hull, by means of which great facilities are afforded for the transmission of produce. The public edifices do not call for particular notice. Public The Guild-Hall, which was repaired and beautified a few years Buildings. ago, is a neat building, appropriated to the business of the corporation, and the holding of the general quarter sessions. The House of Correction for the East-riding, is a spacious structure, erected at an expense of £16,000, situated on the road to Driffield and Scarborough; it contains all the necessary provisions for punishment, A. D. and the classification and employment of prisoners. Here, also, is the Register-office, for the reception of deeds, &c., for the whole 1060 riding, and adjoining is a handsome residence for the registrar. The market place occupies an area of four acres, in the centre of which is a stately cross, supported on eight pillars, each of one entire stone. The fairs and cattle markets are held at Norwood, where is a spacious opening suitable for the purpose. Corporation. Beverley was once the head of a peculiar and exempt jurisdiction, under the provost of the collegiate church, which expired at the dissolution of monasteries. The Minster is now the parochial church of the united parishes of St. John and St. Martin, and was almost entirely re-built in 1060, by Kinsius, Archbishop of York. In 1664, some workmen, whilst opening a grave in the chancel, discovered a sheet of lead, enveloping some relics, with an inscription in Latin, purporting that the ancient church having been destroyed by fire, in 1188, search was made for the relics of St. John of Beverley, which were found, and again deposited near the altar. The present church, of which an account is given in the first volume, is supposed to have been built in the early part of the reign of Henry III. The other places of worship in connection with the Established Church are St. Mary's, a highly interesting structure, and the Minster Chapel of Ease, re-built in 1839, in the parish of St. John, at an expense of £3,250; it is a handsome edifice, containing nine hundred sittings, of which three hundred are free. The churches of St. Martin and St. Nicholas have long since gone to decay. There are various chapels for the accommodation of dissenters. The Grammar School, which appears to have existed at a remote period, gives several yearly exhibitions at Cambridge university, for natives of Beverley, educated at the school. There are several other schools, supported by subscriptions or bequests, for the education of boys and girls, and a number of hospitals, almhouses, or charities, in which the poor are gratuitously lodged, pensioned, and clothed. Among the eminent men who were born at this place, may be mentioned Dr. John Alcock, Bishop of Ely, and founder of Jesus' College, Cambridge; Dr. Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, a martyr to his religous tenets in the reign of Henry VIII.; and Dr. Green, Bishop of Lincoln, an elegant scholar, and one of the writers of the Athenian Letters, published by Lord Hardwicke. Beverley gives the title of Earl to the Percy family. The corporation consists of a mayor, six aldermen, and eighteen councillors. Among the privileges which the freedom of the borough confers is the right of depasturing cattle, under certain restrictions, on four fine large pastures, containing about twelve hundred acres, and now managed under an act obtained in 1836. The elective franchise was conferred in the reign of Edward I., but was not exercised from the end of that reign till the fifth of Elizabeth, since which time the borough has continued to return two members to parliament. The right of election was formerly vested in the freemen generally, whether resident or not, but the non-resident electors, except within seven miles of the borough, have been disfranchised, and the privilege has been granted to the ten pound householders of the borough and liberty, over which latter the limits of the borough have been extended, for elective purposes. Beverley has been represented by the following gentlemen from the period of the Reform Act : A. D. 1832 Borough 1832, Hon. C. Langdale, and Henry Burton. 1835, J. Wier Elections. Hogg, and Henry Burton. 1837, J. Wier Hogg, and George Lane Fox. 1840, S. L. Fox,- George Lane Fox having resigned. 1841, J. Townley, and J. Wier Hogg. 1847, J. Townley, and S. L. Fox. In 1847, Sir J. L. Goldsmid, a member of the Jewish persuasion, was a candidate, and this circumstance, combined with his defeat, gave rise to the following effusion :— Old Goldsmid, the Jew, had his eye very cleverly Till HOGG* made a bolt, when his chances were shaken, The poor law union of Beverley comprises thirty-six parishes or places; and in 1851 the population amounted to 20,037, of whom 9,961 were males, and 10,076 females. The number of houses, at the same period, 4,432. BINGLEY. This place was purchased of the Cantilupe family, by Robert Benson, Baron Bingley, Ambassador to the court of Vienna in the reign of Anne. The manor passed by marriage with the heiress of Baron Bingley, to George Fox, Esq., who assumed the name of Lane, and was created Baron Bingley in 1762; on the death of the second baron, in 1773, it was conveyed to the ancestor of the late George Lane Fox, Esq., of Bramham Park, and subsequently to his son, the present lord. The town is situated in a rich and fertile valley, and consists chiefly of one long street, on the road from Keighley to Bradford. The houses are built of stone; gas was introduced in 1837, and there is an ample supply of water. The air is salubrious, and the environs, which are richly wooded, abound with pleasing scenery. The worsted and cotton manufactures, for Manufac which there are several large establishments, are carried on, and attures. Morton are two paper mills, a cotton mill, and four worsted mills; there is also a considerable trade in malt. The parish, including the townships of East and West Morton, comprises 13,000 acres, |