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extension in Yorkshire, with especial reference to the neigh- 
bourhood of the place in which we are assembled. 
In this county they had been enriched by grants from several 
noble houses — De Brus, Mowbray, de Ros, and Lacy. Their 
lands in the North Riding they had derived chiefly from the 
two first, those in the West from the two last. Robert de 
Ros, the second lord, brother-in-law to Walter Espec, the 
founder of Rievaulx Abbey, gave them Ribston, Hunsingore, 
Cattal, and Walsford. The De Lacy's, lords of the Honour 
of Pontefract, whose possessions extended not only through 
many parts of England, but to Wales and Ireland, were 
great benefactors to the order. From them they derived the 
church of Kellington, Whitkirk, Skelton, and Newhusum, 
now Temple Newsome. William and Roger de Hastings 
gave them the lands of Hurst, near Snaith, which still 
retain the name of Temple Hurst, and some interesting 
remains of the house and chapel. 
England was divided under the Templars into a number of 
BalliaB, Eborascire being one of them ; and in places where 
their possessions were important they had preceptors, i.e., 
receivers of their rents and revenues, answering to the 
commendators, or commanders, in the continental countries. 
Their residences were called preceptories. Ribston, Temple 
Hurst, and Temple Newsome were preceptories, and the last 
mentioned was the most considerable of their establishments 
in Yorkshire. Traces of their dominion are still found in 
Leeds. The bridge leading to Temple Newsome is called 
Timble, (that is according to Thoresby) Temple-bridge. 
Many houses exhibit the cross pattee of the Templars, as a 
proof of their exemption from the liability to grind at the 
soke -mill. 
In looking through the survey of their Yorkshire posses- 
sions, one is struck with the variety and minuteness of their 
sources of revenue. Besides bovates and carucates of land, 
