The castle and manor became the property of Henry VII., and seem to have continued in possession of the Crown until they were granted to Charles Prince of Wales, afterward Charles I. The late Lady Irwin of Temple-Newsam had them in possession.

The venerable ruins of this castle may be seen on ever side at a great distance, particularly from the road leading from York to Scarborough. They consist of seven stately towers, one of them containing two spacious rooms (the uppermost nearly entire), in which may be traced the remains of a painting, too much defaced, however, to satisfy any conjecture of what it has once represented. The towers are in a state of visible decay.

Alas! such is the fate of every thing sublunary!

The following paragraph relative to Scarborough-Castle, should have been introduced at page 50.

"After the battle at Lewes between King Henry III. and the Barons, for determining the strife, Edward, the King's eldest son, was delivered for pledge, and afterward was freed from that custody; for the safety of whom and of the kingdom, the King, 49 Henry III. anno 1265, committed to his said son the Castles of Dover, of SCARDEBURGH, of Baumburgh, of Nottingham, and of Corff, as hostage for five years."

Thoroton's Antiquities of Nottinghamshire, p. 490.

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APPENDIX.

Extracts and dates of Charters granted to the Town of Scarborough, not recited in the former part of ... this work*.

HENRY

ENRY III., by Charter dated 22d January A. D. 1253, grants, "That the Burgesses may lawfully build upon and improve all the waste places of the said borough, according to what may seem expedient to them. And that they who pay scot and lot in the same borough, may not be exempt or acquitted of taxes, aids, or any other burthens to be assessed in the borough. And that no Burgess should implead or be impleaded out of the borough, concerning any complaint or plea, except of foreign tenures. And that the Judges of the Circuit may hold Assize of Common Pleas within the borough. That no alienations of lands, &c. within the liberties be made to any Religious Societies without the consent of the Commonalty. And that the Burgesses and their heirs, for ever, may have one Fair in the borough every year, to continue from the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Mary until the Feast of St. Michael next following, unless it should be to the detriment of the neighbouring fairs."

* See pp. 131-137.

This Fair or Free-Mart, granted by Henry III., was an Important privilege, and anciently attracted a great concourse of strangers, for whose accommodation, booths and tents were pitched in Merchants' Row, between Palacehill and the south-east wall of the town. Various sorts of merchandise, viz. woollen-cloths manufactured in Flanders, with German and other foreign wares in great quantities, were brought to the Mart, and exposed to sale. Minstrels, Jugglers, and all the ancient scenes of merriment abounded. The annual return of the day was celebrated as a jubilee by the inhabitants, and the following ceremony was performed: The Town's officers on the morning of the Assumption (12th August), preceded by a band of music, and attended by crowds of people, made a grand procession on horseback. The heads of the horses were adorned with flowers, and the hats of the riders were ornamented in the same fanciful manner. The cavalcade thus decorated, paraded the streets, halting at particular stations, where the Common-cryer made proclamation of the Mart, and welcomed the strangers to the town, on paying their tolls and customs. Such was the ancient ceremony of this day, corruptly called Jabler's day,' the inhabitants being formerly summoned at this time to pay their gablage*, the tax imposed upon the houses of the town by Henry II.

Henry III., by another Charter dated 1st June, 1253, 37th year of his reign, "Confirms to the Burgesses the same privileges as enjoyed by the Citizens of York †, granting them acquittance of any toll, lastage and wreck, pontage, passage and trespass, and all customs through all England, Normandy, Acquitain, Anjou, and Poictiers, and

*This Mart has long been disused, although the annual custom of proclaiming it in procession was continued until the year 1788.

+ See p. 131.

throughout all the ports and coasts of the sea of England, Normandy, Acquitain, Anjou, and Poictiers. And that the same Burgesses may take a distress for their debts, and defend themselves from all appeals by the oath of thirtysix men of the borough, unless any one be appealed against by the Crown. And also grants to the same Burgesses and their heirs, the town of Escardeburgh with all it's appurtenances and liberties, and all things belonging to the Farm of the Town, for sixty-six pounds to be rendered yearly at the Exchequer, at the Feast of St. Michael. And also to the Merchants there, all the liberties, laws, and customs of the Merchants of England and Normandy; and that neither they, nor any coming to the borough, should be disturbed in the enjoyment of these privileges, under a fine of ten pounds to the King. That the Burgesses of Escardeburgh, and the men of the Manor of Whallesgrave, may be toll-free through Pickering-Forest, and have, and carry away, freely and quietly, through the said forest, their timber, wood, turves, heath, and fern, without any impediment of the verdurers, foresters, &c. except during the fence month†. And that they be not convicted of any injuries, transgressions, crimes, &c. except by their Fellow-Burgesses.

Henry III, 25th May, 40th year of his reign 1256, by another Charter, "Confirms more fully to the Burgesses of Escardeburgh, the enlargement of the said borough, by adding the Manor of Whallesgrave, with all the lauds, pastures, mills, pools, and all other things to the same

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*The Fee-Farm rent continues to be paid by the Corporation annually, viz. 42. 11s. to Trinity College, Cambridge; and the remainder to Lord Middleton and Mrs. Elizabeth Isham.

The fence month continued during the fawning of the deer, from Afteen days before Midsummer to fifteen days after.

manor belonging, without any reserve; and with sixty acres of land in the fields of Escardeburgh, which he formerly recovered against certain of the Burgesses. To hold the same in fee-farm, on payment at the Exchequer, at the Feast of St. Michael, of the yearly sum of twentyfive pounds, for all services, suits, customs, &c. so that the same Burgesses, may have the tax of the men of the said manor, to be taxed the same as other demesne lands, in augmentation of the borough, to be answered at the Exchequer, &c. That the said manor and the borough aforesaid, with all lands and tenements within the bounds of the same, be for ever disafforested. And that the same Bur

* Schedule of the parcels of land lying in different places near Scarborough, which formed the sixty acres then granted to the Corporation.

Imprimis, xi lands (seliones terra, ridges of plough-land) upon Colclyff,

Item, v lands between John Sparrowe's ground and Tyntyngholme. Item, viij lands in Grenegate.

Item, x lands near John Aclom's ground.

Item, viij lands upon Brakanhill.

Item, iij lands upon Ramesdale.

Item, iiij acres in Kyngesclose.

Item, iiij lands under Falskarche.

Item, iiij lands under Quarrell neb.

Item, ij lands beyond Quarrell neb.

Item, iiij lands in Burtondale.

Item, vj lands in another part of the same valley.

Item, xx lands near John Helperby's ground.

Item, xij lands below Wapenesse.

Įtem, xx lands in another part below Wapenesse.

Item, xxiv lands in the tenure of Thomas Coukar,

Item, v lands in one part of the South Field.

Įtem, ix lands in another part of the same.

Translated from Vellum Book of Corporation Records.