CS65) 



CASTLE-HOWARD. 



This place was formerly called Hinderskelf, and 

 is supposed to have been so designated, from ita 

 being situated at the junction of the hundred, or wa- 

 pentake of Buhner, and that of Rydale. The word 

 Hinderskelf meaning Hundred-lull, or the hill where 

 the hundreds meet. This place has long been of 

 great importance, and was once a situation of con* 

 siderable strength ; where was fought many a bat- 

 tle, and where many a brave hero gloriously fell 1 

 In the year 1070, an innumerable multitude of Scots 

 under king Malcolm, traversing the county of Cum- 

 berland, turned eastward into the vale of the Tees, 

 which, with the neighbouring country far and near, 

 they laid waste with brutal ferocity : but when they 

 came to a place called Hinderskelf, there having 

 slain some of the English nobility, Malcolm return- 

 ed into Scotland by the same route by which he had 

 advanced ; loaded with spoils, and laying waste the 

 possessions of St. Cuthbert, with part of Cleveland. 

 I/eland's Collectanea, vol. iii. p. 355. 



Hinderskelf castle was an ancient seat of the 

 Greystocks. Elizabeth, only daughter and heiress 

 of Ralph lord Greystock, was married to Thomas 

 lord Dacre, of Gilsland, in 22 Henry VII., in which 

 family it was continued till the marriage of Eliza- 

 beth, sister and coheir of George lord Dacre, with 

 lord William Howard, third son of Thomas duke of 

 Norfolk, who was beheaded; it is said on the ac- 

 count of his having favoured the cause of Mary, 

 queen of Scots, (though it is thought he suffered 



