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rod, and many a heavy basket of trout have they 

 accounted for with stone fly in Walden Beck. 



He was constantly out with the Wensleydale 

 hounds, and only a few weeks before his death 

 was out otter hunting. He died at Thornton 

 Rust in his eighty-eighth year. Mr. Costobadie 

 was of French extraction, his fore-bears having 

 come from Clermont Ferrand iu the province of 

 Auvergne. The first to settle in this country 

 appears to have been Jean de Costobadie. After 

 becoming a convert to the reformed religion, he 

 fled to England and settled in York. His estate 

 was confiscated, but he seems to have saved 

 something from the wreck, for he purchased 

 property in Yorkshire, and his descendants have 

 been connected with the county and Wensleydale 

 ever since. Jean's son Jacob was a Proctor in 

 the Ecclesiastical Court at York. The proctor's 

 son became Rector of Wensley, and his son 

 (Mr. Ackroyd's father) succeeded him also as 

 Rector. 



