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its appellation that this place sprung from the ruins, 

 of some Burgh or town, belonging to the warlike 

 Romans, in or near the place which now bears the 

 name ; and it is said that not long since there was 

 something very like a Roman road, between Cox- 

 wold and Newbrough, which was formerly the high 

 road, which is now discontinued as a road, and laid 

 open to the adjoining fields ; and it was observed 

 by one who viewed the place, some years since, 

 that there were traces of a Roman road up the hill, 

 by Lord Fauconberg's park wall, who observes ; 

 the vestiges or stones of this wall may be traced up 

 as far as Craike, which might have been a fortress 

 on this road. 



The priory here was surrendered by the last prior 

 January 23, 1539, and much of the property and 

 revenues, granted by the king to the archbishop of 

 York ; and among the rest was the rectory of 

 Thirsk ; its anual revenues were rated at 361. iSs 

 6d. 



After the dissolution, this place came into the 

 possession of the Belasyses, viscounts, afterwards 

 earls of Fauconberg Thomas Belasyse of New- 

 brough, second viscount Fauconberg, married, for 

 his second wife, Mary daughter of Oliver Crom- 

 well, the protector; which marriage was celebrated 

 at Whitehall with all imaginable pomp and lustre. 

 Nevertheless he seems to have been in the secret of 

 the restoration, by general Monk conferring on him 

 the regiment which was Sir Arthur Haslerig's, on 

 the 25 of April, the same day the parliament met 

 that restored Charles II. 



Bishop Buruet writes that Cromwell's daughter* 



