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church, and immediately behind the present com- 

 paratively modern house, now the property of Mr. 

 Bentley, stood the old hall and manor house, the 

 residence of the lords Latimer, who held this estate 

 from the time of Edward I., down to the year 1577, 

 in the reign of Elizabeth, and after passing the in- 

 termediate hands, became in all probability the 

 residence of Elizabeth viscountess Lumley,* about 

 the year 1640, or 1650 ; but there are at the present 

 day only a few traces to indicate where this noble 

 mansion once stood. Inequalities in the surface, 



* I have concluded that the manor bouse at Sinning- 

 ton, was the residence of lady Lumley, not merely from 

 the estate having been in the possession of that noble 

 family, but from the important fact ascertained by the 

 registers, of the burial here in 1657 u of Henry one of 

 the lord Lumley's Sonnes." Now it is not at all likely 

 that this interment would have taken place at Sinning- 

 ton , unless it was at that time or had been their family 

 seat and residence. It is worthy of remark, that he died 

 in April and the October following, lady Lumley de- 

 termined to dispose of her lands for charitable purposes ; 

 thus inducing us to suppose that he was her only son by 

 the lord Lumley, which is corroborated by the deed- 

 poll,which though mentioning various legat ies, and one 

 to a Julia Lumley daughter of lord Lumiey, probably 

 by a former wife, takes no notice of any children of her 

 own She had been deprived of her only child and heir ; 

 and whilst still sufiiering under this recent and heavy 

 affliction, determined to dispose of " her real and 

 personal estates " in administering to the wants of suc- 

 ceeding generations. If she had not resided here, and had 

 not some peculiar predilection for the place from that 

 circumstance, why did she direct a grammar-school and 

 twelve hospitals, to be erected at Sinnington or Thorn- 

 ton specifying Sinnington first, and why were six out 

 of those twelve hospitals given to the township of Sin- 

 nington alone, leaving only six for Thornton, Marton, 

 Farroas, Great Edstone, and Little Edstone ? 



