GIIXING. 



Thomas lord Fairfax, whose ancestors had a grant 

 of the site of the nunnery of Nunappleton, built a 

 handsome house there, which was afterwards pur- 

 chased from that family by Mr. Alderman Milner, 

 merchant of Leeds, and is now the property of his 

 descendant Sir William Milner, Bart. Steeton 

 hall in the parish of Bolton Percy, was the seat of 

 Sir Guy Fairfax, one of the judges of the king's 

 bench, in the times of Edward IV. and Henry VII ^ 

 and it has ever since continued in a younger branch 

 of his family, Thomas Lodderton Fairfax, Esq. of 

 Newton, being the present possessor. 



Copmauthorp near York, came to the Fairfaxes 

 by marriage with the heiress of Malbis, and was sold 

 to the Vavasours. 



Bilbrough. This manor has long* been in the 

 possession of the Fairfax family, and was the birth 

 place of Sir Thomas Fairfax, the first lord Fairfax 

 of the family of Denton. The house was after- 

 wards pulled down, upon an unfortunate contention 

 betwixt two brothers of that family, and never re- 

 ' built ; lord Thomas Fairfax, the great general of 

 the parliamentary forces, was interred in the parish 

 church. 



Walton. In the time of Henrylll. Thomas Fair- 

 fax the son of William, married the daughter and 

 heiress of Henry de Sexdecim Vellibus, or Sezev- 

 j anx, or Thixendale on the Wolds (corruptly so cal- 

 led from 16 dales for which this place is remarkable,) 

 by which marriage he came into possession of the 

 estate of Walton near York. In the chapel of Wai- 

 ton several of the Fairfax famil have been 



