Henry, son of the 12th Baron, 1363. Cockermouth Castle. Wressil Illustrations:-Thomas, 7th Earl (in colours). Autograph of 7th Earl. Holy Thorn. Petworth House. Autographs of 8th and 9th Earls. Portrait of 9th Earl. Northumberland House, Strand. Autograph of 10th Earl. Portrait of 11th Earl. Portrait of Elizabeth Percy, Duchess of Somerset. Portrait of 6th Duke of Somerset. Portrait of Duchess of Northumberland. Portrait of Hugh, 1st Duke. Alnwick Castle. Portrait of 4th Duke. Portrait of 5th Duke. Petworth Church Tablet. Atchievement of Arms of 6th Duke of Northumberland, K.G. We are enabled to describe this work by favour of the Duke of Northumberland. It is, of course, unobtainable. 0 STRANGE APPEARANCE.-On the 13th of January, 1792, a singular meteoric appearance was observed near Stockton-on-the-Forest, about four miles from York, which resembled a large army in separate divisions, some in black and others in white uniforms. One of these divisions formed a line that appeared near a mile in extent, in the midst of which appeared a number of fir trees, which seemed to move along with the line. These aerial troops moved in different directions, and sometimes with amazing rapidity. The above is stated to have been seen by persons of credit and respectability. A meteoric phenomenon of the same kind was seen near Harrogate, on Sunday, June 28th, 1812, between seven and eight o'clock in the evening, by Anthony Jackson, aged 45 years, and Martin Turner, a young man, the son of a farmer in the neighbourhood. When looking after their cattle they were suddenly surprised to see at some distance what appeared to them a large body of armed men, in white military uniforms, in the centre of which was a person of a commanding aspect dressed in scarlet. After performing various evolutions the whole body began to move forward in perfect order towards the summit of a hill, passing the spectators at the distance of about 100 yards. No sooner had this body, which extended four deep over an enclosure of 30 acres, attained the hill, than a second body, far more numerous than the former, dressed in a dark-coloured uniform, appeared, and marched after the first to the top of the hill, where they both joined and passed down the opposite side of the hill and disappeared, when a column of thick smoke spread over the plain. The time from the first appearance of this strange phenomenon to the clearing up of the smoke, the spectators supposed was little more than five minutes. These appearances created a great sensation among the superstitious, who considered them as ominous of the great waste of blood by Britain in her wars with America and France. This Pedigree comes down to the present time. REV. JOHN GIBSON, (p. 89.) The letters written by Mr. Gibson, and transcribed by himself into a book are in the possession of the Rev. W. R. Tate, of Walpole, Halesworth. He was son of John Gibson, husbandman, deceased. He is probably the same as a John Gibson who received the living of Thorp Arch in 1673, South Kirkby in 1675, Folkton in 1718, vacating all three livings by death in 1727. He was buried at South Kirkby Dec. 15, 1727. Mr. Moore-Smith read an account of the letters before the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, May 2nd, 1892. They are chiefly of interest in connexion with the history of Cambridge University. We have to acknowledge the receipt of the reprint from the "Eagle," June, 1892, entitled "John Gibson's Manuscript," 23 pages, demy 8vo., in which we find many interesting notes by Mr. Moore-Smith. Gibson's mother died in the Fall of 1668. He mentions his sister Prudence, and brothers-in-law (evidently,) Francis Wright, Smithson, and Robert Micklefield, junior, and his uncle Capt. Cuthbert Harrison, of Acaster, who married Lennox, daughter of Marmaduke Lord Langdale. Yorkshire Place Names and Surnames. [We print the following more for its bibliographical rarity than for its intrinsic worth. It was the work of a Moravian Brother, who was born in Bedfordshire, educated at Fulneck, Yorkshire, and resided at Lausanne. It will be seen that it is No. 8 of a series. The uniqueness of a privately printed Yorkshire pamphlet in Switzerland will atone for its appearance in our pages, although there are undoubtedly several extremely faulty etymological suggestions, the most flagrant of which, in our opinion, we will indicate by notes in parenthesis, (a), (b), (c), &c.] OLIM VIII Geoffry waes min name in Engla Land, LAUSANNE MDCCCLXXV Printed solely for the writer's relatives and a few friends. [31 pages.] A hermit like myself, cut off by my deafness and other infirmities from all social enjoyments, necessarily contracts the habit of musing on all sorts of subjects. During the long and gloomy evenings of last week, the origin and signification of the names of places and persons have occupied my thoughts. My attempt to explain why places and people bear the names they do, would I foresaw, prove like everything else I have undertaken in life a sad failure, nor has my foresight played me false. I am told that books exist where one or another of my countrymen has taken the trouble to tell to every one who has faith in him, why he and the spot he inhabits bear the names they do. I have never happened to meet with any of these productions, and have therefore no external aids in my desultory attempts to ferret out the truth; but I console myself with the conviction that the subject is one of not the slightest importance to any human creature, and that consequently anyone may play with it as he lists without burdening his conscience. If the authors of the books above mentioned have well and duly performed the task they undertook, this implies on their part a knowledge of the language of the Celts (the ancient Britons), that of the Romans, the Anglo-Saxons, the Danes and of the bastard Latin spoken in the North of France in the eleventh century; to say nothing of the M Y.C.M. |