Micklefield; and for wards marriage and relief. It appears by a deed dated at Newhall Die Veneris prox. post fest. Purificationis Beatæ Mariæ Virginis, made from Sir James Bossevile, of Micklefield, Knight, unto Robert, second son of Peter Bossevile, whereby he grants all his manor of Newhall and all his lands and reversions in Darfield, Wombwell, Ardsley, Barnsley, and Griesburg, which said manor of Newhall the said James had before granted unto John Owsthorpe, Prebendary of Howden in the church of St. Peter's, at York, for the term of his life, by Fine acknowledged and engrossed at Westminster 3rd of Edward III, before William Hearle, Henry Scroope, John Bourser, and John Travers, Justices. And the said deed is dated the same year.

Several persons appear at different times to have been possessed of parts of this manor. Sir Robert de Reygate performed the customary service at the Archbishop's court for lands which he claimed to hold of him in Micklefield. In 15th Edward III, 1341, exemplificatio cujusdam judicii in assis pro Willielmo de Flixton versus priorem de Pontefracto et alio pro communia pasturæ suæ in centum et viginti acris moræ in Peckfeude pertinen' ad liberum tenementum dicti Willielmo in Mikelfede, in com. Ebor.

13th Richard II. Rex concessit David Holgrave et Elenæ uxori ejus in feodo manerium de Mikelfield in com. Ebor; ac unum tenementum in Villa Novi Castri super Tinam nuper Rogeri Fulthorpe Militis attincti per servit' debit'.

A branch of the family of Gascoigne were also settled here. They descended from Henry Gascoigne, the son of Sir William Gascoigne, Kt., who was the eldest son of the famous judge.

Tradition still points out the sites of two manor houses in this township. One was in the garth at the north of the village still called the Hall Garth, a place where relics of ancient buildings have been discovered whenever excavations have been made. The other is assigned to a still uncultivated tract of land called the Castle Plains or Castle Hills.

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The tythe corn of Micklefield belonged to the Treasurer of York as Prebendary of Newthorpe.

Micklefield is in the honour and County Court district of Pontefract, union of Preston, and Archdeaconry and Bishopric of York. The church is a pretty, new building, in the Gothic style, built at the sole expense of Thomas Davison Bland, Esquire, of Kippax Park, who is lord of the manor and chief land owner. The clergyman is provided by the vicar of Sherburn, and is not residentiary.

There is a chapel for Methodists, with Sunday School attached, built chiefly through the agency of Samuel Hick, the "village blacksmith," of Wesleyan notoriety, who resided here.

BARKESTON

ARKESTON, the hamlet from which the wapentake derives its name, is partly in the parish of Sherburn, and partly in the parish of Saxton. It was held of the Archbishop by the service of the fourth part of a Knight's fee, by Robert de Barkeston, temp Edward I; and on the 8th Ides of February, 1339, William, son of John, son of Walter de Barkeston, did homage to the king for the lands and tenements he claimed to hold of him in Barkeston, acknowledging himself to hold of him there 5 messuages and the fourth part of a Knight's fee, rending to the Archbishop 16d. rent, and doing suit at the court of his manor of Sherburn-in-Elmete from 3 weeks to 3 weeks.

The tythe corn of the manor of Barkeston belongs to the Treasurer of York, as Prebendary of Newthorpe.

1316. John de Selby was certified, pursuant to a writ tested at Clipston on the 5th March, as one of the lords of Barkeston, in the county of York.

Of the family of Barkeston we find that in 1315 Stephen de Barkeston, manucaptor of Willielmus de Parys, was Knight of the Shire returned for Lincoln.

Barkeston possesses a Wesleyan chapel.

The hamlet is in the Tadcaster Union and County Court district.

STYVETON, OR STEETON.

TYVETON, or STEETON, is another hamlet in the parish of Sherburn. It was (together with

Thorpe) held of the Archbishop by the service of one Knight's fee by Robert de Wytheby, temp Edw. I. For which, on the 8th Ides February, 1317, Sir Robert de Reygate, Kt., did homage and fealty to the king for the lands he claimed here to hold of him by Knight's service, and suit to his court of Sherburn from 3 weeks to 3 weeks.

The tythe corn at Styveton belongs to the Treasurer of York, as Prebendary of Newthorpe.

Robert de Reygate was one of the lords of the township of Fairburn in 1316. In 1322, Sire Robert de Reygate, Bachelor, in arms against the king, was taken prisoner at the battle of Boroughbridge, on Tuesday and Wednesday after the feast of St. Gregory, 16th and 17th March. This was the battle in which the Earl of Lancaster and the rebellious barons were defeated, and in order to save his life Sir Robert submitted to a fine of 200 marks, for which he was discharged from prison at York on the 11th July, on giving surety for his good behaviour. In 1324 he was returned by the Sheriff of the county of Leicester, pursuant to a writ tested at Westminster 9th May, as summoned, &c., to attend the Great Council. In 1324 he was returned in like manner by the Sheriff of the county of York. In 1325 he was summoned, as from the county of York, to perform military service in Guyenne, he having obtained a pardon upon condition of serving the king in his wars.

HUDDLESTON.

HIS hamlet is surveyed in Doomsday as the possession of a Saxon named Hunchil. After the con

quest, the tythes of Huddleston appear to have been given to Selby Abbey, by Thomas, the second of that name, Archbishop of York; yet Torre tells us that the tythe corn belonged to the Treasurer of York, as prebendary of Newthorpe.

Several families of eminence have resided at Huddleston, the chief of which was the family of De Huddleston, who claim to have possessed the manor for many generations antecedent to the conquest, and so to have descended from the Saxon Thane Hunchil. The pedigree begins with an Adam,* though I believe we are not to suppose the

*I append a pedigree transcribed from Burke's "Landed Gentry," vol 1, p. 601, Ed. 1847.

Adam de Hodelston was succeeded by John, his son, who was succeeded by Richard, his son, who was in turn succeeded by Richard, his son. All these are said to have occurred in the Saxon times.

Nigel de Hodelston, a Saxon who, oddly enough, has a peculiarly Norman Christian name, is given as the first after the conquest. He had two sons-Sir Gilbert, living in the time of Henry II, and Reginald. The second son, Reginald, was the father of

Richard de Hodelston, living in the 7th King John, and in the 12th Henry III, who was succeeded by his son,

John de Hodelston, lord of Hodelston, who married Sybel, daughter of Laurence, son of Richard de Kirkbie, and had a son and heir.

Sir John de Hodelston, Lord D'Anys, who was summoned to a council at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and ordered on the 26th September, 26th Edward I, to attend the king at Carlisle with horse and arms, in the record of which he is