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daughters between Edward St. John, the Evers, and 

 Coigniers. From Edward St. John a large portion 

 of it came by a daughter to Henry Broraflet ; who 

 was summoned to Parliament 27 Henry VI., in the 

 following form, which occurs in no other summons : 

 "We will that you, and the heirs male of your Body 

 lawfully begotten, be Barons Vescy." This title 

 passed afterwards by a daughter to the Cliffords. 

 On the other side, four miles* from Pickering near 

 Dowe, Dove, a rapid little river, stands under hill* 

 Kirkby Moorside, so called from being near the 

 moors ; no contemptible market town formerly, 

 belonging to the Estotevilles, 



Beyond this to the west extends Ryedale, a spa- 

 cious and fruitful vale, adorned with 23 Parish 

 Churches, and the river Rhie running through the 

 middle of it. This was, according to William of 

 Newburgh a dreary waste before Walter Espec 

 gave it to the Monks of Clugni, and founded a Mon- 

 astery for them. In this vale is Elmesly, which if 

 I am not greatly mistaken, Bede calls Ulmetum ; 

 where Robert de Ross, surnamed Fursan, built a 

 Castle, near which the river Ricall loses itself under 

 ground. Lower down on the river stands Riton, 

 the ancient estate of the ancient Family of the 

 Perchaies, commonly called Percys. Thence the 

 Rhie rolls with it the streams of many brooks to the 

 Derwent, which waters this vale. Multon, a 

 market town famous for corn, horses, fish, and in- 



* Four miles from the extremity of Pickering Lyth, 

 which terminates at the Tillage of Siunington, four-miles 

 from Kirkby. Moorside ; Pickering town beiug eight 

 miles distant* 



