104 



1-16 inch on the 12th. So by a remarkable coincidence the 

 year's rainfall was brought exactly up to the average. The 

 average remains, therefore, precisely as before. • Appended is the 

 monthly fall during 1901, together with the number of wet days 

 in each month : — 



January .. 



February .. 



March 



April 



May 



June 



July 



August 



September 



October 



November . , 



December.. 



1*78 inches on 17 days 



31-18 



202 



The average number of wet days in the previous 16 years was 

 192. 



April, 1902. An Old Inscription. — On a stone placed over 

 the door of an old building near Battersby Hall is an inscription 

 which is meant to read as follows : " Anno Domini 1670 — R.W. 

 — R.H." We take it that most of our readers are familiar with 

 our Ingleby Register and Parochial Monograph, and are conse- 

 quently aware that at the close of the 16th and in the early 

 portion of the 17th Century Battersby Hall was occupied by a 

 branch of the Ridley family, connections of Dr. Ridley, burnt at 

 the stake in 1555, and of the present Lord Ridley. A Pedigree 

 of this branch will be found on page xlviii of the Monograph. 

 This branch apparently became extinct in the male line in 1639. 

 In the above-named inscription the " R W." probably represents 

 Robert Ward who married Anne Ridley, May 4th, 1610. This 

 Anne was probably a daughter and not improbably heiress, of 

 Nicholas Ridley of Battersby Hall, who was buried at Ingleby 

 as an " Octogenarius," June 29th, 1639. The only son of whom 

 we find mention in the Ingleby Register is William, baptised in 

 1595, and buried June 9th, 1639. A Robert Warde, son of 

 Richard Warde, was baptised in 1595. Anne, wife of Robert Ward 



