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is in a dilapidated state, and has been for some 

 years occupied merely as a farm house. Over the 

 front door are the arms of the Bamforth's, with the 

 date of the erection of the building, 1618. The 

 house is supposed to have been originally of much 

 greater extent, from the remains of foundations and 

 walls discovered in digging on the east of it. A ve- 

 nerable elm, which once formed a distinguished or- 

 nament of the mansion, is destined soon like its an- 

 cient proprietors, to fall into obscurity and be for- 

 gotten ; a large hollow trunk with a few scattered 

 branches barely serve to protract its existence. 



In another farm house in Cawton occupied by 

 Richard Russel, and the property of Mr. William 

 Shepherd, of Muscoats, is a little oak parlour of con- 

 siderable curiosity, which I conjecture to have been 

 finished somewhere about the year 1541. The pan- 

 nelling is of oak, and over the chimney piece is a coat 

 of arms carved in oak, and a bass-relief with the ini- 

 tials N. F. It appears from the History of Scar- 

 ordinary for the fidelity and minuteness of its details, 

 was published about 100 years ago (Gough's anecdotes 

 of British Topography, p, 579.) and is described by its 

 author as " a new and correct map of the county 

 of York, in all its divisions, by actual survey and dimen- 

 " suration : with the Arms and Seats of the Nobility and 

 lt Gentry, the distance in miles and furlongs between 

 <c each of the market Towns, the courses of the several 

 *< Roman ways, present Roads, Rivers and Rivulets, 

 " Churches, Castles, Religious Houses, ancient Baronies, 

 * c Forests, Chases, Parks, Woods, Mountains, . Lakes, 

 " Fields of Battle, Collieries, Copper Mines, and Lead 

 t6 Mines, Allum Works or other minerals, Sea-Coasts, 

 '* Rocks, Sands, Shoals, &c. by John Warburton Esq., 

 *' Somerset Herald of Arms, and Fellow of the Royal 

 Society." 



