382 NEWBROUGH. 



married to the lord Fauconberg, was a wise and 

 worthy woman, more likely to have maintained the 

 post of protector than either of her brothers ; accor- 

 ding to the saying that went of her, "that those who 

 wore breeches deserved peticoats ; but if those in 

 peticoats had been in breeches, they would have 

 held faster." 



Henry, the last earl Fauconberg died 23 of March 

 1802, without issue male, whereby the earldom be- 

 came extinct : but the barony and viscounty yet ex- 

 ist in the next heir male of the body of the first ba- 

 ron and viscount, if such heir male do truly survive ; 

 which the modern peerage allows in the person of 

 Rowland Belasyse, descended from Rowland Bel- 

 asyse, Esq., brother to Thomas, the third viscount. 

 Arms argent, a chevron gules, between three 

 fleurs de lis, azure. 



Banke's Extinct Peerage vcl. iii. p. 294. 



COXWOLD 



Is situated in the wapentake of Birdforth, 9 miles s. 

 E. of Thirsk, containing a population of 348, hav- 

 ing in its parish Angrain Grange, population 29, 

 Birdforth 42, Byland 372, Newbrough 162, Oul- 

 ston 225, Thornton 70, Wildon Grange 29, and 

 Yearsley 170 ; total 1447. This town though 

 small is pleasant, being built on rising ground, and 

 in a romantic situation. It is a place of some note 

 in consequence of its having been the residence of 

 Lawrence Sterne, the facetious and descriptive au- 

 thor of Tristram Shandy, a Sentimental Journey 

 into France, &c. The bouse in which he lived is 



