the Beggar's Tree, under the shelter of which, most probably, some wandering mendicant solicited the charity of travellers, as they passed along Croule Causeway on their way to Althorpe. The neighbouring towns of Belton and Epworth obtain, from this wharf, a regular supply of coals, lime, stone, and all other productions from the west part of Yorkshire. The small Hamlet of Aland or Ealand is mentioned in the composition made by Sir John de Mowbray and the Abbot of Selby: and so also is Testlehay, or Tetley, which at that time of day must have been a small holme, surrounded in a great measure by woods and marshy grounds. Tetley, from very remote times, has been the property of the family of Stovin: for Gorge Stovin, who lived in the reign of George the First, declared that he was the eighth or ninth in descent who had possessed that property. Several residences have been erected nearly on the same spot; and, at a short distance from the house, is a small burial ground, containing several sepulchral memorials of the Stovin Family. HERE LIES THE BODY OF MARY, DAUGHTER OF THEY him, which startled Sir John Hotham, the Governor, he being determined not to admit the King to come in. Upon which all the gates were presently shut, and the drawbridge drawn, and every man commanded to keep his house. Betwixt eleven and twelve o'clock the King came, and commanded Sir John Hotham to open the gates. Some say there were in company betwixt two and three hundred. He, upon his knees, craved pardon of his Majesty, and told him he was commanded by them whom he served to the contrary. Many messages there were, too tedious to write, at length he caused Sir John Hotham to be proclaimed if he would not open the gates within an hour. Sir John was determined what to do. The King walked there three or four hours; the Prince was with him, the Duke of Lenox, the Earl of Lindsey, Marquis of Hertford. The Prince was very hungry, and went to Henry Potter's house, a carpenter, without the gates, and there was given him such as the house could afford, some bread and cold beef. Afterwards they got a pye, and desired he, the Prince would be pleased to taste of it; "Nay," said he, "this shall be for my father, for he is as hungry as I am." The Duke of York, the Palsgrave, and the Earl of Newport, went out of the gates to see his Majesty, and about five or six of the clock, they went to Beverley, and lay at Sir Thomas Remington's his house. Sir John Hotham bestiring himself very much, and a strict watch is kept." April 26, 1642. THEY SHALL LIE DOWN ALIKE IN THE DUST, AND THE WORMS SHALL COVER THEM. Job 21, v. 26. HERE ALSO LIES CORNELIUS, SON OF THE SAID HERE ALSO LIES MARY, DAUGHTER OF GEORGE AND SARAH, AGED 12 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS. M. S. HIC JACET JACOBUS GEORGII ET SARA STOVIN, O! TERQE. QUATERQE. BEATUS. HERE LIES THE BODY-OF SARAH, DAUGHTER OF GEORGE STOVIN, ESQ. AND SARAH HIS WIFE, SHE DIED AUGST. 3, 1733, AGED 3 MONTHS AND 3 DAYS. HERE LIES THE BODY OF JAMES STOVIN, ESQ. LATE OF CROULE, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE OCTOBER 11, 1739, ÆTAT. SUÆ 61 AND 10 MONTHS, HERE HERE LIES INTERRED THE BODY OF JOAN, THE AND THE MOST INDULGENT CAREFUL MOTHER. AND DIED MUCH LAMENTED THE 25 OF OCTOBER, 1729, IN THE 54th YEAR OF HER AGE. IN HER PRAISE I REFER TO PROVERBS, 31st. CHAPTER, BEGIN AT THE 10th VERSE. SHE WAS POSSESSED OF ALL THE VIRTUES Tetley was left by George Stovin to his daughter Elizabeth, married to John Henry Maw, late of Epworth, who left it to his son, Henry Lister Maw. The latter built the present handsome and substantial mansion. Some notice of both these ancient families of Stovin and Maw, may properly be introduced into this part of the History of the Isle of Axholme. FAMILY OF STOVIN. IT HAS been handed down by tradition, in this family, that they came into England with the Conqueror, and that the first settler was chief of the bow stringers who attended his army. To this tradition, it is evident, the crest of ear Sheffield, but afterwards th in descent, was living at d Parliament; and is stated royed Sandtoft Church, and ts' lands in Epworth and tremely probable that the n accusation was preferred an unlicenced place, cont complied with the terms he family tradition, as relate soldiers came in search of 1 in. One of the soldiers is, however, the mother had the retreat of her husband, conveyed him part of the w, where he was found by : second visit of the soldiers, concealed in the oak woods the weather for a considerid was betrayed by an old ence of severe treatment in 1 his health had experienced a man of property, and a to carry him to his grave. Job xxi, 23d. verse, "One uiet. His breasts are full of nd another dieth in the bitter. hey shall lie down alike in the ich text the preacher would no Le Drainage. |