MALTON'. 



could be easily passed on the northern border of 

 the wold, excepting at Stamford-bridge. 



It is thought that Malton must have been the 

 ancient Derventio, a name which is derived from 

 its being the principal station on the Derwent. 

 Stamford-bridge, to which the honours of Derventio 

 have been unjustly given, being a place of no mo- 

 ment in comparison of this station, and furnishing 

 no such evidences of its ancient greatness. This 

 supposition is strengthened by the numerous Ro- 

 man coins both silver and copper, of various empe- 

 rors, which have been found here. Fragments of 

 urns, and others entire, containing also Roman 

 coins, and many other relics of that warlike people. 

 It is said that the Camulodunum of the Roman 

 Britons became a royal villa to king Edwin in the 

 Saxon period ; and here the life of that prince was 

 preserved from assassination by his faithful friend 

 Lilla. 



Malton, like all other places, has had numerous 

 possessors, many of whom we know not even the 

 names, and others we are able to trace. 



In the time of the Saxons, the great earl Siward, 

 who defeated the Scotch tyrant, Macbeth, possessed 

 this town and lordship ; and after the Norman con- 

 quest, the descent of the property is clear. Imme- 

 diately after that period the Conqueror took Malton 

 into his own possession, and gave it to his favourite 

 Gilbert Tyson ; from whom it descended to Eustace 

 Fitz-John, in the reign of Henry I. : but Henry I. 

 dying, and Stephen coming to the throne, Eustace 

 rebelled against him, and espoused the cause of the 



