"Rest, gentle Rivers! and ill-fated Grey! And whom a Monarch wept in vain to save." This Castle made a stout resistance against the Parliament troops under Sir Thomas Fairfax and Colonel Sands, but surrendered upon articles, (July 24th, 1645,) "which were the more favorable, by reason the plague was hot in Pomfret town."* In * The following extract from Stow, may serve to convey some idea of the ancient style of living in these Castles. It is an account of one year's expenses of the above Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, from Michaelmas, in the seventh of Edward the Second, to the same period in the following year: the whole "sum amounting to 79571. 13s. 4 d. "To wit; in the pantry, buttery, and kitchen, 34051. &c. "For 184 tuns, one pipe of red or claret wine, and one tun of white wine, bought for the house, 1041, 17s. 6d. "For grocery ware, 1801. 17s. Od. "For six barrels of sturgeons, 191. "For 6800 stockfishes, so called, and for dryed fishes of all sorts, as lings, haberdines, and other, 411. 6s. 8d. "For 1714 pound wax, with vermilion and turpintine, to make red wax, 3141. 7s. 4dž. "For 2319 pound of tallow candles for the houshold, and 1870 of lights for Paris-candles, called perchers, 311. 14s. 3d. "Expences on the Earl's great horses, and the keeper's wages, 4861. 4s. 34d. "Linen cloth for the Lord and his Chaplains, and for the pantry, 431. 17s. "For In the lower part of Pontefract stands the old Church, which was reduced to its present ruinous condition during the siege in the Civil Wars. It is said that 3000l. was raised to repair it, but that the money was embezzled by the collectors. It is now a mere shell, a small part only serving for divine service. Those who may like to draw architecture, F "For 129 dozen of parchment, with inke, 41. 8s. 3 d. Summe, 12301. 17s. 7 d. "Item, for two clothes of scarlet for the Earle against Christmasse, one cloth of russet for the Bishop of Anjou, seventy clothes of blew for the knights, (as they were then tearmed,) fifteen cloathes of medley for the Lord's Clerks, twenty-eight clothes for the esquires, fifteen clothes for officers, nineteen clothes for groomes, five clothes for archers, four clothes for minstrels and carpenters, with the sharing and carriage for the Earl's liveries at Christmas, 4601. 1s. 3d. " Item, for seven furs of variable minerver, (or powdered ermin,) seven hoods of purple, 395 furs of budge, for the liveries of barons, knights, and clerkes, 123 fures of lambe, for esquires, bought at Christmass, 1471. 17s. 8d. "Item, sixty-five clothes of saffron colour, for the barons and knights in summer: twelve red clothes mixt for clerks, twenty-six clothes of ray for esquires, one cloth ray for officers' coats in summer, and four clothes ray for carpets in the hall, 3451. 13s. 8d. "Item, 100 peeces of greene silk for the knights, fourteen budge furs for surcotes, thirteen hoods of budge for clerkes, and seventy-five furs of lamb for the Lord's liveries in summer, with canvas and cords to trusse them, 721. 19s. "Item, saddles for the Lord's liveries in summer, 511. 6s. 8d. "Item, for one saddle for the Earle of the Prince's armes, 40s. Summe, 10791. 18s. 3d. “Item, architecture, will find the south-west angle a good study; including, by way of fore-ground, the houses on each side the street. The surrounding country is pleasant, but wants a boldness of character to render it interesting in a picturesque point of view. It is also destitute of water, an indispensible beauty in all landscape scenery. Near the town, in Pomfret Park, is an extensive flat, on which is an excellent race-course, where "Item, for things bought, whereof nothing can bee read in my note, 2411. 14s. 1ęd. "For horses lost in service of the Earle, 81. 6s. 8d. "Fees paid to Earles, Barons, Knights, and Esquires, 6231. 15s. 5d. "In gifts to Knights of France, the Queene of England's Nurces, to the Countesse of Warren, Esquires, Minstrels, Messengers, and Riders, 921. 14s. "Item, 168 yards of russet cloth, and twenty-four coats for poor men, with money given to the poor on Maunday Thursday, 81. 16s. 7d.** "Item, twenty-four silver dishes, so many sawcers, and so many cups for the buttery: one paire of pater-nosters, and one silver coffer, bought this year, 1031. 5s. 6d. "To divers messengers about the Earle's business, 341. 19s. Sd. "In the Earle's chamber, 51. "To divers men for the Earle's old debts, 881. 16s. oid. Summe, 12701. 7s. 11d." Here follows an account of the expenses of the Countess at Pickering Castle, for the same period; making the sum total as above stated. Stow, page 71. Stow says, he had seen this cloth sold at 4d. the yard, at half yard and half quarter broad: good cloth of a mixed color. where a capital stand is now building. From Pontefract, nine miles of a good road, and plea sant country, lead to WAKEFIELD, ONE of the most opulent and genteel of the clothing towns in Yorkshire. It is situated on the banks of the navigable river Calder; and having greatly improved in trade, of late years, the inhabitants have been enabled to ornament it with many respectable houses. The streets are clean, and the walk on each side flagged. The great object of curiosity here, is the bridge, and the beautiful Chapel which stands on it; said to have been built by King Edward the Fourth in memory of his father. Gough, however, observes, that this King seems to have been rather the repairer, or rebuilder, than the founder of the Chapel: for it appears by charter, of the thirty-first of Edward the Third, dated at Wakefield, that Edward the Third, by that instrument, settled ten pounds per annum on William Kaye, and William Ball, and their successors for ever, to perform divine service in a chapel of St. Mary, newly built on the bridge at Wakefield. This Chapel, after being applied to various uses, is now a library. On the front are remains of some curious sculpture, in compartments. "There was a sore batell fought in the Southfields by the bridge, in which the troops of the Duke of York were worsted; and, in the flight, the Earl of Rutland, his son, was slain. The commune saying is there, that the Earl would have taken to a poor woman's house for socour, and that she for fere shet the dore, and strait the Earl was killed. The Lord Clifford, for killing of men, was called the Boucher."* Clifford, a young man, of a brutal spirit, is said to have killed the Earl in cold blood. He was slain himself shortly after, in the battle of Towton. The sons of Clifford, quite infants, would have been sacrificed to the manes of Rutland, had not the prudence of the mother provided for their safety: she sent one of them beyond sea; and concealed the other at the house of a shepherd, where he was brought up as a peasant, without education, and remained in that state till the accession of Henry the Seventh, when he obtained restitution of his possessions. Wakefield was the birth-place of that eccentric character, the wealthy and witty DR. JOHN RADCLIFFE, an eminent Physician, and the founder of Radcliffe Library at Oxford. He was born in 1650. At fifteen years of age, he was entered in University College, Oxford, where he resided till he had acquired a considerable reputation. One At fifteen * Leland's Itin. means, |