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Studley Park, Yorkshire;

THE SEAT OF

MRS. LAWRENCE.

THE ancient family of Tempest were formerly possessors of Studley Royal, a Township of Claro Wapentake, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and were succeeded by the family of Mallory, who had for centuries been settled at Hutton Hall, about two miles east of Ripon. Sir John Mallory, Knt., of Studley, distinguished by his loyalty to King Charles I., died in 1655, leaving a son, William, who died without issue, and six daughters, of whom Mary married George Aislabie, Esq., of the city of York, who died in the year 1674, when Studley descended to their son, the Right Hon. John Aislabie, Chancellor of the Exchequer, who died in 1742, leaving William Aislabie, Esq., his son and heir, who died in 1781, when the estate devolved to his daughter, Mrs. Allanson, and from her descended to her niece, Mrs. Lawrence, the present pos

sessor.

The House at Studley, of which we have given a view of the principal front, is commodious, and contains a suite of spacious apartments of good proportions, containing a small collection of pictures and family portraits; but the principal object of attraction are the Pleasure Grounds, which were laid out entirely under the direction of the Right Hon. John Aislabie, and are happily disposed by nature, being formed in a winding valley, through which runs the Skell, a small river which is expanded into lakes and canals. The hills on the south side are clothed with magnificent woods reaching to the edge of the water, and adorned with various buildings, while those on the north, which are less precipitous, are laid out in lawns, interspersed with stately forest trees. At the western extremity, in a beautiful situation, are the magnificent ruins of Fontain Abbey, originally founded by Thurstan, Archbishop of York, in the year 1132, for Monks of the Cistercian order; the Monastery, seen through the trees, is extremely grand. The fabric was begun about 1204, by Abbot John of York, and is considered to have been finished by Abbot John of Kent, who died in 1245. Marmaduke Brodelay, the last Abbot, surrendered the Abbey in 1540; its revenue then amounted to 10737. Os. 73d., according to Speed: this part of the Studley estate was purchased by William Aislabie, Esq., in 1767.

Swinton Park, Yorkshire;

THE SEAT OF

WILLIAM DANBY, ESQ.

THIS Place and Manor are part of the more extensive Manor and Free-chace of Mashamshire, which has been possessed by the family of Danby from 9 Hen. VIII. (1517,) when, on the death of Geffrey, the last Lord Scrope of Masham, and Upsall, the youngest of the four Sons of Thomas Lord Scrope, who died in 15 Edw. IV. (1475), the extensive domains of that family, descended to the three Daughters, and at length coheirs, of the same Thomas Lord Scrope, of whom Alice married Sir James Strangeways; Elizabeth, Ralph Fitz-Randall, of Spennithorne; and Margery, Sir Christopher Danby. The partition of the Estates in the Northern Counties did not, however, take place until 12 Hen. VIII. (1520), when, among other Estates, the Manor of Masham and Mashamshire, with all lands and appurtenances, were allotted to Dame Margery Danby and her heirs.

Sir Christopher Danby, her husband, was son of Sir James, and grandson of Sir Robert Danby, of Thorpe Perrow, Knt., Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, who died 11 Edw. IV. (1472), and who was one of the younger sons of Thomas Danby, of Danby-super-wiske, by Mary, daughter of Sir Robert Tanfield, Knt. This Thomas Danby was the ninth, in lineal descent, from Roger Stringent, otherwise Danby, Lord of Danby-super-wiske, in the time of the Conqueror. The first of the family mentioned in the Pedigree, is Edward Stringent, a soldier of fortune, who came over with William, who gave him for wife Armatrude, daughter of John, Lord of Great, and Little Danby.

Dame Margery left a son, Sir Christopher Danby, Knt., who, when very young, married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Nevill, Lord Latimer, in 6 Hen. VIII. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Sir Thomas Danby, Knt., who married the Lady Mary, daughter of Ralph, Earl of Westmoreland, and left a son, Thomas Danby, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Wentworth, of Wentworth Woodhouse. In 9 Eliz., their only child, Christopher Danby, married Frances Parker, daughter of Edward, Lord Morley and Monteagle, by whom he had a son, Sir Thomas Danby, Knt., who in 6 Car. I., married Catherine, daughter of his guardian, Sir Christopher Wandesford, Knt., Master of the Rolls, and afterwards Lord Deputy of Ireland.

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