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This bold projecting rock is called, from Major Thomas, 

 '' Smallman's Leap," from a tradition that the major, a 

 staunch Koyalist, being surprised by a party of Crom- 

 well's horse, was singly and hotly pursued over West- 

 wood, where, finding all hope of escape at an end, he 

 turned from the road, hurried his horse into a full gallop 

 to the edge of the preciiDice, and went over. The horse 

 was killed by falling on the trees beneath, but the major 

 escaped, and secreted himself in the woods. Certain 

 historical facts, showing that the family long resided here, 

 appear to give a colouring to this tradition. Thus, in the 

 reign of Henry III. (57th year) William Smallman had a 

 lease from John Lord of Brockton par Shipton, Corve- 

 dale, of 17i acres of land, with a sytche, called Wool- 

 sytche, and two parcels of meadow in the fields of Brock- 

 ton. John Smallman possessed by lease and grant, from 

 Thomas de la Lake, 30 acres of land in the fields of Lar- 

 den par Shipton, for twenty years from the feast of St. 

 Michael, living 4th Edward II. (1310) 41st Edward III. 

 (1367), Richard Smallman, of Shipton, granted to Roger 

 Powke, of Brockton, all his lands and tenements in the 

 township and fields of Shipton, as fully as was contained 

 in an original deed. Witnesses — John de Galford, Sir 

 Roger Mon (Chaplain), Henry de Stanwy, John Tykle- 

 wardyne (Ticklarton), of Stanton, John de Gurre of the 

 same, with others. 1st Henry VI. (1422), John Small- 

 man was intrusted with the collection of the subsidies of 



