One of his manuscript volumes, relating to Church affairs, bears this title. Within the Archdeaconry of the West Riding, collected out of Public Records and Registers, A. D. 1691. It appears from two notes which the author has placed in the margin of the title page, that he began to transcribe from his papers, and to methodise them, for the former part, September 4th, 1691, and finished it October 27th, in the same year; and for the latter on March 15th, 1691, and completed it June 9th, 1692,-a prodigious work! when I inform the reader that this volume contains no less than one thousand two hundred and fifty-five columns folio, mostly closely written, and in a very small but legible hand. There is likewise a complete index to the whole. The other Archdeaconries of the diocese are treated in the same manner in two more volumes; and there is one more of Peculiars belonging to the Church or See. This invaluable treasure was given to the Dean and Chapter's Library, by the executor of the last will of Archbishop Sharp. These books are an index or key to all the records of the Archbishops, Deans, and Chapters, and all other offices belonging to the Church or See of York; by which means, for instance, in one particular, a person in searching for the patronage of any living in their district, has at one view the exact separate dates of years and dates of institutions, a list of the several in cumbents cumbents, their patrons, when and how vacated, with the authorities for all, as far back as the Archiepiscopal Registers go, which begin with Archbishop Walter Grey, A. D. 1216. Torre's studies and application were not, however, entirely confined to Church History; he was besides an excellent master of Heraldry and Genealogy. Five manuscript volumes, in folio, on these subjects were, when Drake wrote, in the possession of his son Nicholas Torre, of Snydall,-the title of which is," English Nobility and Gentry; or Supplemental Collections to Sir William Dugdale's Baronage, carrying on the Genealogical Descents and Historical Remarks of Families therein contained: by James Torre." The whole is illustrated with the coats armorial and different quarterings of the several families, prettily tricked out with his pen: to all which is added a copious index. There were besides, in the custody of the same gentleman, and in that of the Dean and Chapter, several smaller MS. volumes of Collections, from which he extracted his larger works. In these the prodigious application of our author may be clearly seen. He hardly ever suffered a scarce printed book to pass his hands without transcribing all or a part of it. Such a close and constant attention to studies of this kind might have led us to suppose, as he died about middle age, that he had hurt his constitution; but this we are told was not the case: he was always a hearty, robust man, and died of a fever. There is the following inscription to his memory in Normanton Church. DE ECCLESIA DE REPUBLICA OPTIME MERUIT, TENEBRISQUE SITUQUE OESITAS IN LUCEM PROFERENS, ÆTATIS SUA 49. BEATUS SIBI DESIDERATUS OMNIBUS, PEDIGREE Between Haxey and Owston are two other Hamlets, called GRAIZELOUND and EAST LOUND, which are mentioned in Doomsday Book under the common name of Lound. seven oxen. "Fulcheri and Wedge had fourteen oxgangs of land to be taxed, land to In the same place nine oxgangs of land to be taxed. Soke in Epworth, land to one oxgang of land to be taxed five oxen. There are four sokemen and four villains, and two farmers have three ploughs and a half, and one fishery at twelve-pence. Value in King Edward's time twenty shillings, now sixteen." The Hamlet of Graizelound must in former times have been situated close to the water which overflowed all the low grounds between Nottinghamshire and the Isle, hence the fishery mentioned in the survey. After the great mere had disappeared, it would be the first dry ground on which the traveller would set his foot, after passing "the fen and moorish soile," which extends all the way from Idle Stop; and before the inclosure, when the ground was so imperfectly drained, and no roads had been formed, many a weary eye has looked anxiously to catch a glimpse of the lights in the houses of this hamlet, as the best mark by which to steer his course, when overtaken by the darkness of the night in crossing this dreary waste. In coming towards Owston, and so to the river Trent, a similar tract of marshy ground had to be passed, though not so extensive, so that the inhabitants of this hamlet in the winter must have been very much secluded from all intercourse with the adjoining counties. East Lound being situated at the lower part of Haxey, and a short distance from Owston Field, might not be quite so difficult of access; but, I believe, after Gainsbrough mart in October, until the next mart at Easter, the people in these villages seldom thought of going any where. It must be taken into consideration, however, that when the fields were all open and the commons uninclosed, and wheel carriages much less used, people on horseback riding where they chose, would travel with much more facility than a man could after the roads were fenced off, and he was obliged to find his way through a narrow, miry, and gulphy lane. A little A little to the north of East Lound, on the highest elevation of the Isle, is a single house called HIGH BURNHAM, which at the time of the Conquest was probably a small vill. Then it became the residence of one of the neighbouring gentry; and after that, following the fate of High Melwood, has been degraded into a common farmstead. The trees remind us that they have sheltered many generations, and some of them I wean were here when there was fowling in the meres and hunting in the chase; but the house contains nothing remarkable. The original mansion, or the greater part of it, has most probably gone to decay; and the present building has been carelessly put together for the accommodation of a farmer. I find from an old document in the archives of Temple, that this place belonged formerly to Sir Thomas Williamson, who sold it for the sum of two thousand pounds to Mr. John Farmery, who left it to his son Robert, the husband of that pious lady whose "good works and alms deeds that she did" I have already related. He left only female issue, who married into the family of Stanhope of High Melwood; and there being no son from this marriage, it became the property of their daughter Isabella, from whom it was purchased by the family of Johnson, then residing at Temple Belwood. Descending the hill towards the north we come to a small Hamlet situated in the very bottom of the valley, called NETHER or LOWER BURNHAM, which seems in antient times to have been the residence of several of the principal inhabitants of the country, for no less than three of the persons mentioned in Mowbray's deed resided here; and in the twentyeighth of Edward the First, Thomas de Burnham was summoned to Carlisle, to assist the King in suppressing the Scottish rebellion, as one of those persons who possessed forty librata of land in the county of Lincoln. The entry in Doomsday is as follows:-" Burnham High and Low have six carucates of land to be taxed. Soke in Epworth. Eighteen sokemen have there seven ploughs." From the great number of sokemen* or inferior land owners, who are entered *The Socmanni or Socmens were those land-owners who had lands in the Soc or Franchise of |