Between Mr. Tate and Mr. Surtees there was the most kindly feeling and unreserved intimacy, and the wit and kindliness of heart with which they were so richly endowed endeared them, above all, to a kindred spirit who always accounted himself happy in having been the pupil of one and the friend of both.

Mr. Tate held the living of Marske conjointly with the adjacent rectory of Downholme. Upon alternate Sundays he drove to Marske, and officiated in the church. A youthful scholar of his, whom he had taken by the hand when help was of all things necessary to him, was frequently his companion in those journeys. He always, on that account, took the liveliest interest in that little village, and that interest has descended to his son. That youthful scholar in after-years made some little name himself, but he never forgot the affectionate care of his early master, and it was his intention, had God spared him a little longer, to have evinced his love and gratitude in a memoir of his preceptor. "I cannot write it, I fear, but I have not the heart to say so," were his words to his son, a few weeks before he died. Death, alas! too soon afterwards stilled the beatings of that affectionate heart. Others may take up the duty which he left; but none can fulfil it in a more kindly and a more thankful spirit.

Mr. Tate left a large family behind him. His eldest son, another James Tate, alter ab illo, is now master of Richmond school, to which he was appointed when his father left the North. The present school is one of the numerous memorials of Canon Tate which have been suggested by the gratitude of his pupils. All prosperity to the school and its master!

WILLIAM KENDALL, a native of Westmerland, and for some time curate at Marske, succeeded Mr. Tate in the livings of Downholme and Marske. He died Sep. 2, 1855, aged 72, and was interred at Marske. His cousin is now rector of Downholme. Mr. Kendall married a sister of Mr. Fisher, his predecessor in the living.

THOMAS WILLIAM ROBSON, p. m. Kendall, instituted Nov. 2, 1855. The present rector, to whom the writer is greatly indebted for much information relating to his cure. Mr. Robson is the eldest son of Thomas Robson, Esq., of Holtby, and was incumbent of the neighbouring church of Hudswell before he came to Marske.

6 Mr. Tate gave up the parsonage at Marske to his curate. One of his curates was a Mr. Hick, father of the Rev. J. W. Hick, incumbent of Byersgreen, in the county of Durham. Mr. Hick had a school at Marske preparatory to that of Richmond, and his house was filled with boarders.

PARISH REGISTERS.-The Registers begin in 1597. They are missing between 1661 and 1671, but, with this exception, they are pretty perfect and in good condition. I give a few extracts from them, omitting everything that can be made use of in another place.

1597. Dec. 16. Chr. son of Rowland Milner, bp. 7

8

1634. Apr. 7. John Higden of Marsk, and his wife Anne, dyed both in one and the same hower and were buryed on Easter day. 1635. Jan. Ibbison, a groveman, buried.

1635. July 30. Solomon Marshall, free-mason of the hall, dyed there.10 1637. Mr. Nicholas Foster of Bambrough, in Northumberland, dyed at Clints, 10 Dec. bur. 11th.

11

1641. June 10. Richard s. Mr. Richard Foster, a stranger which came from Darnton, bp.12

1642. Nov. 8. Eliz. dau. Philip Warwick, Esq., and Dorothy dau. Mat. Hutton, Esq., bp.13

7 The Milners formed a strong clan in Swaledale. There was a family of the name living at Skelton for more than two centuries. The Miiners of Nun-Appleton, near York, came originally out of this dale, from a place called Calvet house, near Muker. Their wealth was made by trade in Leeds, where they were on the most intimate terms with Thoresby, the antiquary. I could connect, I dare say, the two families of Calvet house and Skelton, but it is scarcely worth while to do so.

8"United e'en in death." Such cases are not common. Richard Crashaw writes the epitaph of another pair.

To these whom death again did wed,
This grave's the second marriage-bed.
For though the hand of fate could force
'Twixt soul and body a divorce:

It could not sever man and wife,
Because they both liv'd but one life.

The "poet and saint"

A lead-miner, who was probably engaged upon his work somewhere in the parish. A few other extracts relating, especially, to longevity may be given here-"1635 July 30. A beggar's child dyed at the byrkhouse and buried gratis.-1635 Aug. 20. Widow Hutchinson of Helaugh in Swaledale, of an 100 y. old.-1636. Feb. 6. Francis Place, after hee had longe layd in extreme misery, bur.-Feb. 18. Old widow Bough, aged 80 or thereabout, bur.-1742. Nov. 11. Ralph Fetherstone of Allgate, above 80, bur.-1743. Apr. 29. Sarah Milner of Skelton Hall, aged about 91, bur.-1762. Mar. 23. Mrs. Bailden, widow, mother to Mrs. Hird, aged 96, bur."

10 Some alterations must have been going on at the hall.

11 The head of the great house of Forster of Bambro' and Blanchland.

He was probably on a visit to Clints when he died. His wife was a daughter and coheir of Sir Wm. Chaytor of Croft. The pedigree of the family will be found in the History of North Durham. On Apr. 29, 1642, a Mr. Francis Foster of Clints was buried at Marske. It is probable that he was a son of the gentleman who has just been mentioned. The Bathursts, a family deeply learned in medicine, were now connected with Clints: did these two gentlemen come thither for advice and change of air?

12 Some account of this family will be found in Surtees' Durham, iii., 357, and in Longstaffe's Darlington, 130. Cf. Richmondshire Wills, where a document occurs which connects the family with this district.

13 A daughter of (Sir) Philip Warwick, the well-known author of the Memoirs of Charles I. He married to his first wife Dorothy, daughter of Matthew Hutton, Esq., by whom he had two children, Elizabeth and Matthew. They both died in their infancy; and on that account Sir Philip released 5007. of his wife's portion, saying, when he did so, "This respect of mine to my father is in acknowledgment of the great blessinge I had in my most virtuous pious wife (who is with God) his daughter."

1647... A dau. of Edward Ellerton, bur."

1698. Dec. 15. Mr. Samuel Alcock, bur."

1700. May 28. A boy, supposed about the age of 10 years, found by chance, was baptized by the name of Edward.

16

1701. Feb. 10. Mr. John Bartlet of Nutwith Coate, par. Masham, and Mrs. Dor. Dodsworth, of par. Thornton Watlass, mar. 1701. Aug. 28. Eliz. dau. Brian Ascough, bp."7

17

1709. 25 Apr. Francis son of Wm. and Anne Wanley, bp.18 1715. June 10. Mrs. Eliz. Fowles, spinster, bur."9

14 An ancestor of the late Rev. Edward Ellerton, D. D., who was a native of the adjoining parish of Downholme, where there is a monument to commemorate him. The Ellertons have been connected with that parish for a very long period.

15 A gentleman who was related to the family of Hutton. Olive dau. of John Hutton, Esq., married Thomas Alcock, of Chatham. Mr. Alcock makes his will on Sep. 7, 1692, in which he styles himself "master caulker of their majesties shipps in their yard at Portsmouth." "To be buried with all decent privacy and frugallity. To my two brothers-in-law, John Hutton of Marske, Esq., and Mr. Matthew Hutton of Marske, all my goods, &c., on trust, to pay my debts, &c., and to divide the remainder between my two sons Samuel and Thomas when of age. My daughter Frances Alcock. My brothers-in-law exrs." Proved at London 16 Feb., 1693.

16 The Bartletts of Nutwith Coat were a respectable family. This gentleman was the son of Simon Bartlett. He had an only son, who bore his name, and was buried at Masham in 1769.

17 A member of a good Richmondshire family. He seems to have resided at Marske, and to have been intimately connected with the Huttons. In 1665, he administered to the effects of John Hutton, Esq. "1681. Nov. 29. Mary, dau. Brian Askough, bur.--1683. Oct. 20. Eliz., wife of do., bur.-1698. May 14. Marm. Ascough bur.-1701. Aug. 28. Eliz., dau. Brian A., bur.-1702. Oct. 31. Oswold Tennant of Arkingarthdale and Fiances Ascough, md.-1703. May 29. Anth. Cotes and Eliz. A. md.-1741. Dec. 26. Mat. Askey, bur."-Marske Reg.-1705. 8 May. Adm. of Brian Aiscough of Snape to Anne his widow, Matthew Aiscough of Marske being her bondsman.

18 Francis Wanley, D.D., Dean of Ripon. His parents, Wm. Wanley and Anne Fowle, were married at Marske Feb. 2, 1704-5. He owed, without doubt, his advancement in life to the family of Hutton, and especially to Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of York, whose chaplain and cousin he was. He was of Christ's College, Cambridge, A. B. 1731; A. M 1735; Fellow: S. T. P. 1748. Vicar of Aldbrough, 1744-1750. Rector of Stokesley 1750-1791. Prebendary of Hinton, at Hereford, 1745. Prebendary of Norton Palishall, at Southwell, 1748. At York he held, successively, the chancellorship and the stalls of Stillington and Weighton. In 1750 he became Dean of Ripon, an office which he filled during the remainder of his life. He fell into great pecuniary difficulties, and was obliged to retire to the continent: on his return he found the deanery at Ripon occupied by the residentiary, who refused to relinquish possession. He lived accordingly in a house in Kirkgate, assisted to the close of his life by many kind friends, who never deserted him in his misfortunes. He died in 1791, and was interred in Ripon Minster where there is a monument to commemorate him. His wife was a daughter of Sir John Goodricke of Ribstone, and by her he had several children.

19 A daughter of Humphrey Fowle or Fowles, Esq., of Rotherfield, by a dau. and coheir of Wm. Dyke, Esq., of Frant, the sister of Mrs. Hutton. Her sister, Anne Fowle, was the second wife of Wm. Wanley, Esq., of Eyford (son of Andrew Wanley and Frances Hutton), and the mother of Dean Wanley. Wm, Wanley, Esq., by his first wife, Alice Bowes, had a son George Wanley (Bowes), Esq., who also married a Hutton.

1721. Apr. 18. Leonard Stapylton and Margery Milner, both of this parish, mar.2

20

1730. June 16. Henrietta dau. Jno. Dodsworth, Esq., bur.21

1751. Jan. 20 and 21. There fell the greatest snow that ever was knowen in the memory of man; it snowed for 3 days some little, but the greatest quantity fell these 2 days, viz., Monday and Tuesday, and some little for 4 days following: all the roads were stopd for 4 or 5 days, and men were obliged to go with spades, &c., to cut the roads both to Richmond and Reeth; but it turned to a gentle thaw the following week, and people got to the market. I computed the snow would have been 1 yard deep if it had fallen level without wind.

22

1756. July 25. Mr. Paul Glenton of Seymour Court, Chandos Street, par. St. Martins, London, and Mary Whitehouse, par. Marske, mar. 1770. Dec. 23. Samuel Musgrave of Skelton, bur. Found dead in the river between Reeth bridge and Fremington.

1771. Nov. 19. William and Joseph Rookeby bur.23 They were brothers: both drown'd in Clapgate beck in coming from Richmond on the Saturday evening before, and found on the Monday following. William Rookby lived at Skelton, and married John Mewburn's daughter and left four children.

20 Leonard Stapylton was master of the village school at Marske and secretary to Mr. Hutton. He was related, I believe, to the family at Myton, and a cousin, perhaps, of the rector of Marske.

Richard Stapylton of Barton makes his will 18 Aug, 1722, desiring to be buried in his son Richard's grave in St. Mary's, Barton. He had by Mary his wife three children, Richard, bur. at Barton, 8 May, 1687; Anne, the wife of Wm. Gibson, to whom she was married at Barton, 18 Feb. 1717-18, and Leonard Stapylton of Marske, bp. at Barton, 20 Mar. 1686-7. He administered to his father 14 Oct. 1727.

Leonard Stapylton, of Marske, was mar. at Marske on 18 Apr. 1721, to Margery dau. of Thos. Milner who was then 30 years old. They had the following children, Richard, bp. 23 Mar. 1721-2, living 1764; Leonard, bp. Feb. 3, 1723-4, living 1764; Thos., bp. 5 Aug. 1734, living 1764; Sarah, bp. 28 Dec., 1725; Mary, bp. Feb. 4, 1726-7, living unmar. 1762; Sarah, bp 14 Oct. 1729, mar. Thos. Woodhouse; and Anné, bp. 6 June, 1732, and bur. 9 Dec. 1761.

Leonard Stapylton, the father, was buried at Marske, in June, 1763, and his wife on the 29th of October, in the following year.

The parish register contains some earlier notices of Stapyltons, with whom, be it remembered, the Huttons were most closely connected by blood and friendship.-1635. Dec. 20. Sythe dau. Marm. Stapleton of Feldome, bp-1637 May 28 Mary wife of Marm. S. bur.-1639. Mar. 31. Chr. s. Marm. S. bp.-1640. Apr. 11. Margt. dau. Marm. S. bur.-1640. Dec. Anne dau. of Marm. S. bp.-1641. Mary wife of Marm. S. bur.-1641. Aug. 1. Marm. S. and Eliz.. mar.

21 Her mother was a Hutton of Marske. Her sister, another Henrietta Dodsworth, carried the Dodsworth estates to the Smiths of Newland Hall. The mother of these two children, Henrietta Hutton, lived to the age of nearly a hundred years.

22 At the funeral dinner of a kinsman of this person, a singular incident took place. The arval was held at the little village inn, and in the middle of the festivity a neighbour stood up and proposed a sa toast "A happy resurrection to our departed friend!" Another kinsman was, till very recently, keeper of the lunatic asylum at Bensham, near Gateshead.

23 The record of a melancholy occurrence. Two brothers are drowned in Clapgate beck on their way home from Richmond market. They were found locked in each others arms. They bear a gentle name, and in their veins some gentle blood was

1776. Aug. 8. A negro servant belonging Mr. Hutton, and who had been in the family about 4 years, and supposed then to be about 17 or 18 years of age, and cod say his catechism in a tollerable manner, bp. by the name of John Yorke, and confirmed at Richmond next day. 1781. Feb. 10. James Postethwaite, the popish priest at Clints, bur. The service (at request) read as usual.

1786. May 8. A child of Chr. Tideman's, just removed from Jinglepot to Orgate, between 3 and 4 years old, stray'd from his father's house and was found dead on Marske moore." 24

flowing. They were lineal descendents, without a break, of the old knightly family of Rokeby. As it is interesting to trace the history of illustrious a house, even in its misfortunes, I subjoin the following pedigree, which has never been printed before:Thomas Rokeby of Mortham, Esq., bap 12 Mar. Margaret, dau. of John Wycliffe 1639, at Rokeby, mar. at Kirkby Hill 22 Aug. of Gailes, Esq., bur. at Rokeby 1661. Adm. to his son Ralph 30 Apr. 1722. 5 July, 1703.

Mary Rokeby, bp. 27 Aug.

1662.

Susanna, bp. 7 July, bur. 11 Sep. 1064.

Mildred, bp. 29 Nov. 1678, living 1714.

Margaret, bp. 6 Oct. 1667, bur. 12 Apr. 1668.

Elizabeth, bp. 12 May, 1676, mar. Peter Save, and living 1714.

Peter Rokeby of par. Wycliffe, yeo., bp. 4 July, 1698, ob 1761. A

Anne, bp. 16 May, 1731, mar. 19 Feb. 1753, Francis Appleby Barningham.

of

Joseph, bp. 2 Mar. 1674, liv. 1714, mr. Cath. Bowes at St. Mary-le-Bow, Durham, and had two children, Cath, bp. ib. 23 Sep. 1718, and Thos., bp. 12 Aug. 1720. "Mr. Joseph Rokesby, from Hurworth, formerly captain in the army, bur. 2 Nov. 1757," Darlington.

Christopher R.,
baptized 28 Sep.
1707, bur. 27
Dec. 1772.
A

William Rokeby
of Skelton, par.
Marske, joiner,
bp. at Rokeby 10
Mar. 1734, mar.
at Marske, 25
Apr. 1763.

Elizabeth, bp. at Marske, 11 June, 17€4.

Jane, bp. 25 Aug. 1766. She was the housekeeper in the family of Hunter of the Hermitage for many years. Mary, bp. 29 Nov. 1768.

Ann, bp. 11
Mar. 1704.

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Jos Rokeby, bp. 6
July, 1737, drown-
ed with his brother
Wm. 16 Nov. 1771.

Francis, bp. 9 May, 1743, bur. 12 Feb. 1755. William, bp. 1 Aug. 1771. A saddler in Gray's Inn Lane, London. He got into difficulties, and killed himself.

It

Mr. Surtees begged my father to find out for him, if possible, a genuine Rokeby or Wycliffe, and promised to provide for him. My father was never able to do so. would be a difficult task to find out a Rokeby now. There is, I think, still a family of Wycliffes in the neighbourhood of Hexham.

24 The child followed its father to the moors and was lost. They searched in vain all night, and found it dead next morning. The poor child had taken its clogs off and tried to go to sleep. Mr. Hutton remembers the incident.