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"but only this epitaph is now visible. " Here lyes 

 the body of Thomas lord viscount Fairfax, who 

 died Sept. 24, 1641., and of Alethea his wife, who- 

 died the 2nd of the same month 1677. 



Those who read this pray for their souls." 



Denton was for several generations, the principal 

 residence of the Fairfaxes, of whom Sir William 

 Fairfax, married Isabel, daughter of Thomas 

 Thwaites, by whom he had the manor of Denton. 

 This line in seven generations produced two judges, 

 Sir Guy, and William Fairfax ; and two distin- 

 guished generalSjFerdinando, and Thomas, success- 

 ively lords Fairfax, the well known commanders for 

 the parliament. In this house at Denton, where 

 he had been born 60 years before, died the latter 

 general Nov. 12, 1671, And here was born Ed- 

 ward Fairfax, an English poet, the son of Sir Tho- 

 mas. The estate was purchased in 1690 by Hen- 

 ry Ibbetson, Esq., of Red Hall near Leeds, and is 

 the present residence of Sir Henry Car Ibbetson, 

 Bart. 



Newton Kyme, is the present residence of Thomas 

 Lodderton Fairfax, Esq., a younger branch of the 

 ancient family of Fairfax. 



The forfeited estates of the duke of Buckingham 

 at Helmsley, &c. which were given by the parliament 

 to their general lord Thomas Fairfax, as a reward 

 for his services in the cause of the commonwealth, 

 afterwards reverted to the duke on his marriage 

 with the daughter and heiress of that general. 



The family of Fairfax, as appears from the fore* 

 going brief incidental notices, have given rise to 



