This Sir John Neville was a son of Ralph Neville, first Earl of Westmoreland. Having no issue, the property passed by marriage into the family of Gascoigne. His daughter and sole heiress married Thomas Wentworth®, whose son and heir, William Wentworth, sold his possessions in the Isle of Axholme to different purchasers. In modern days, Althorpe was the property of Henry Dalton, Esq. of Knaith, near Gainsbrough. After whose death it was again sold to the persons who had cultivated the soil. * Hunter's History of the Deanery of Doncaster. "Nothing 'Nothing can be more contradictory, confused, and uncertain, than the accounts of the Newmarshes are, that are come down to us in the works, manuscript and printed, of former antiquaries. The reader may compare the account given by Dugdale, Baronage I. 436, with another by Thoroton, Nottinghamshire, I. 266. Gascoigne has prepared a third, in his Appendix to the Pedigree of the Wentworths, Harl. MSS. 1047; and lastly Torre, in his Collections for the Baronage, has attempted to deduce the Pedigree from the evidences which remain of this once great family, and differs from all who precede him. Dodsworth seems not to have entered fully into it, although he has left portions of the descent deduced from charter evidence*". It appears, however, that Ralph de Newmarsh was contemporary with Roger de Bulse, and founder of the Honour of Tickhill, and no doubt was one of his Norman companions. The family was settled originally at Arksey-cum-Bentley, near Doncaster. They had property also at Womersley, in Nottinghamshire, long after Bentley had passed into the family of Tibetot; and the marriage with Mowbray's daughter, gave them possessions in the Isle of Axholme. Along with these magnates of the land, I must not omit to mention a more humble individual, James Green, the parish clerk of Althorpe, who wrote "a Book of Psalmody, containing chanting tunes for the reading Psalms, with eighteen Anthems, and a variety of Psalm tunes, in four parts; " a work the arrangement of which must have required very considerable musical attainments, and which was so well received by the public that it went through eight editions. DEDDYTHORPE, OR, as it is written in the Calendarium Inquisitionum ad quod damnum, Keddythorpe, is a small Hamlet close to the village of Althorpe. There was formerly a small lode or gut, called Nolfdyke, by which boats and small craft could sail out of the Trent as far as the house at Temple; and which is mentioned as a boundary in one of the most antient of Mowbray's grants to the Templars. The ground at Deddythorpe is so much below the level of the river at high water, that a man on horseback cannot see over the top of the bank, which is no higher than necessary, to prevent the water of a high blown tide from overflowing. KEADBY IS another small Hamlet which Roger de Mowbray gave to the Templars. After the destruction of that order, John Dalton, the Prior of Clerkenwell, purchased this Manor, and annexed it to that house. Previous, how ever, to Mowbray's grant, the following persons had to pay certain sums, for the lands which they held of the superior Lord, to the Hospital of St. John, Regin. vs. Galfridus vs. Galfridus iiis. iiid. Warinus iiis. iiid. Deram and his brother Thomas viis. vid. Robert vs. Thomas, the son of Inghœe xxxd. which payments were out of holdings, the largest of which did not exceed a bovate of land, and they were in lieu of all services*. This manor shared the fate of other such portions of the property of the religious houses, and Robert Dun, Esq. is now the Lord, and holds here a Court Leet and a Court Baron occasionally. At this place Mr. Thackery, by the directions of the Participants, made new outfalls to the drains of Cornelius Vermuyden, in order to assist the original ones at Althorpe. Here also the Croule warping cloughs, which are on a very large scale, receive their waters from the Trent; and here also is the entrance of the Keadby and Stainforth Canal, by which the antient communication of the southern branch of the Don, between the Trent and Doncaster, was restored, so that this place is completely intersected with works of drainage, warping, and navigation. The original sum of money necessary to defray the expence of this Canal was raised by the sale of two hundred and forty shares, of one hundred pounds each. The Act also gave power, if this sum was found insufficient, to borrow twelve thousand pounds more. Every subscriber of one share is a proprietor, and has one vote; and every other share, to the number of fifteen, entitles the holder to another vote. Turves and peats dug upon Thorne peat moors, and on certain peat moors within the manors of Croule and Keadby, may be taken on this Canal free of toll to the river Don, or to any other place in the parish of Thorne; but if taken to the river Trent they are then liable to toll. And in order that this Canal might not interfere with the works of drainage in the Level of Hatfield Chase, a side drain was made on the south side of the Canal, from a place called Ashfield Bank, in the parish of Thorne, to the Trent at Keadby; and also another side drain was made on the north side * Dugdale's Monasticon. side of the Canal, extending from the boating dike at Thorne, along the south-west corner of Croule Common, to the Trent at Keadby. The rights of fishing were preserved to the lords and ladies of the manors through which the Canal passes. The proprietors are a body corporate, by the name of "The Company of Proprietors of the Stainforth and Keadby Canal Navigation ;" and by that name they have perpetual succession. They have a common seal, and are entitled to sue and be sued; and are also empowered to purchase lands, tenements, and hereditaments, for the use of the said navigation and works, without incurring any of the penalties of the statute of mortmain. AMCOTTS, OR AMCOATES, another Village in this parish, has for several hundred years been the property of a family of that name. John de Amcotts was returned to Parliament, as member for the City of Lincoln, in the reign of Edward the Second; and during the same reign, we find the following entry in the Calendarium Inquisitionum post mortem. Ricus de Amcottes, unum Messuag, 2 boot terr. et passag. itm. Maresdyke, &c. itm. And in the same reign, in the Calendarium Inquisitionum ad quod damnum, Ricus Amcottes, pro Abb. de Selby, In 1672 Sir Wharton Emerson, of Kettlethorpe Park, Lincolnshire, and of East Retford, Nottinghamshire, married Anna Maria, eldest daughter and |