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the greater part of the Cretaceous era) on the other, to that which 

 flourished through the whole Jurassic era is a striking fact, well 

 worthy of more critical and exteiisive consideration than it has so 

 far received." In the discussioa on ]Mr. Seward's paper at the 

 Geological Society, Dr. Blanfoni suggested that the Mesozoic Flora 

 may have originated froin the CTlossopteri'< flora which prevailed in 

 the southern hemisphere in Palseozoic times, and i.s very distinct 

 from the Pernio-Carhoniferous flora of the northern hemisphere. 

 Since Mr. Seward's paper was read, he has delivered to the 

 Botanical Section of the British Association, at its Southjwrt 

 Meeting, a Presidential Address on " Floras of the Past : their 

 Composition and Distribution." To this address, printed in the 

 Geological Magazine, Yol. X., Nos. 11 and 12, I would refer my 

 readers, who will find it of the greatest interest. 



WHORLTON-IX-CLEVELAND. 



By Key. J. Cowley Fowler, B.A., F.G.S. 



There is evidence tending to show that our parochial area was 

 inhabited as far back as Roman times. We are told that in ISIO a 

 large silver vase was turned up by the plough near the old church. 

 The vase, which was broken, contained a number of Roman coins 

 of silver, and square wedges of the same metal. According to 

 Mr. Ord, the coins represent A^alens, Gratian, Theodosius, Honorius, 

 anel Arcadius, which seems to indicate that they had been deposited 

 towards the decline of the Roman power in Britain. 



In what way these coins were placed there we shall never 

 know, or by whom, Roman or Saxon ; there is nothing else to 

 connect the place with Roman times except, as some think, there 

 was a Roman road from York, by Stillington, Yearsley (Camp), 

 Oldstead and the Hambleton Hills, to Whorlton (Castle) and 

 Cleveland — perhaps to Eston Nab or Barnaby Moor (Camp). 

 [Phillip's Rivers and Mountains of Yorkshire, p. 241]. 



The first historic information is found in " The Domesday 

 Book for Yorkshire," in the " Terra Comitis Moritoniencis." It is 

 named as being in soke to Hotun (Hutton Rudby), and is spelt 

 Wirueltune, together with Codresclief (Scutterskelf), Blatun (Blaten 

 Carr, near Great Busby), Goutun (Goulton, still in the Parish of 

 AVhorlton), and Gratorne (Crathorne). In all, twenty carucates for 



