DUNCOMBE PARK. 415 



Nearly a mile from this mansion is Sproxton 

 Lodge, adjoining the York road: it is the entrance 

 into the carriage road, which conducts to the house. 

 The gate-way forms an elegant triumphal arch, 

 erected in honour of lord Nelson, on which is in* 

 scribed the following words : 

 Facing the road, thus : On the park side, thus. 



_ . ___ 



TO THE MEMORY OF LAMENTED HERO ! 



LORD VISCOUNT O ! PRICE HIS CONQUER- 



NELSON, AND THE ING COUNTRY GRIEV'D 

 UNPARALLELED GAL- TO PAY ! 



LANT ACHIEVEMENT ODEAR BOUGHTGLORIES 

 OF THE BRITISH NAVY. OF TRAFALGAR'S DAY 1 

 1806. 



Perhaps it may not be unacceptable to some of 

 my readers to have the account of the descent of the 

 Helmsley estate from the great Walter de PEspcc ; 

 who held it soon after the conquest. Walter losing 

 his only son, as stated in the article on Kirkham, 

 left his estates (not settled on the three religious 

 houses, Kirkham, Warden, and Rievaulx,) to his 

 three sisters, the youngest of which, Adelina, being 

 married to Peter de Ross, brought this lordship in- 

 to the Ross family. 



Ros family, of Helmsley, or Hamlake. 



Peter de Bos married Walter Espec's sister, Ad- 

 elina ; died about 3 of Henry II., A. D. 1175, and was 

 buried at Rievaulx. Robert de Ros was a special 



