404 GILLING. 



many illustrious distinguished characters ; to which 

 \ve may here subjoin, that of Sir Guy Fail-fax, judge 

 of tue king's bench, who was made also recorder 

 of Yo.k, in the reign of Edward IV. 1476 ; and 

 Sir William Fairfax, seneant at law, and judge of 

 the common pleas, who was made recorder of the 

 same city in the reign of Henry VII. 1489. (See 

 Hist, of York, iii. 42.) 



Several of this illustrious family were also high 

 sheriffs for the county at an early period. In the 

 reign of Henry VIII., Sir Nicholas Fairfax was 

 made high sheriff in the year 1531 ; Sir William in 

 1534 and 1539. ; Sir Nicholas 1544. In Elizabeth's 

 reign, Sir Nicholas in 1561 ; Sir Thomas Fairfax 

 1571; Sir William Fairfax 1577. In the reign of 

 James I., Sir Thomas Fairfax 1627, and in the 

 reign of William and Mary, Henry Fairfax, Esq. 

 1691. 



Of the general lord Thomas Fairfax, a short ac- 

 count will be found in our appendix. 



C AWTON* 



a township in the parish of Gilling, and situate be- 

 tween the villages of Hovingham and Gilling. The 

 manor house at Cawton, late the property of Wil- 

 liam Garforth, Esq., of Wigginthorpe, but now in 



the possession of Tindall, Esq. of Scarborough, 



was once the residence of the Bamforths, as appears 

 from Warburton'sMap of Yorkshire. f The house 



* Calvetun (or Cawton,) Waltef one manor of three 

 carucates ; it was amongst the lands assigned by the 

 conqueror to the earl of Morton. 



t This singularly curious old map ? which is extra- 



