HISTORY AND GUIDE TO THE RUINS OF THE CARTHUSIAN MONASTERY CALLED MOUNT GRACE. By C. W. Smithson, 4th edition, April, 1891. 2d. 24 small pages. 5th edition, November, 1891. 4d. 32 pp., illustrations and plan. Northallerton, W. R. Smithson.

We are pleased to see this useful guide grow in size and attraction, as it has a public service to render. Great credit is due to the author for the skill in collecting and arranging in a popular style the scattered notes on the interesting Priory, and adding an account of Whorlton Castle.

MAW.-John Maw, of Full Sutton, co. York, was probably born about 1700, but the parish registers only extend to 1713. He was buried there on May 5, 1764, and his wife Ann Sep. 22, 1763. [The following were probably his brothers and sisters :-James, buried 11 Jan., 1752-3, whose wife Magdalene was buried 14 July, 1713, and his second wife Katharine Fletcher-married 5 April, 1714- -was buried 9 Sep., 1745. Ralph, buried 30 April, 1732, whose three wives were (1) Jane buried 25 Novr. 1720, (2) Mary Ringrose of Skirpenbeck, married by licence 29 Jan., 1721, (3) Ann Cade of Bishop Wilton, married by licence 23 June, 1726. Ann, married, May 11, 1736, William Carlton of Bishop Wilton, and Rebecca, married, 29 April, 1754, Robert Gibson, of Catton.] John and Ann Maw had the following issue,

William, bap. 11 Feb., 1728, buried 9 Dec., 1749.

Ann, bap. 13 April, 1731, married Francis Smith, 1 Dec., 1760. Elizabeth, bap. 8 Oct., 1734, buried 22 Oct., 1752.

James, bap. 13 Jan., 1736, bur. same month.

John, of Full Sutton, bap. 16 March, 1737, died 17 Dec., 1811. He married Sarah Burton, about 1761, and had issue—

William, bap. 14 March, 1762, who marrying Lydia Gill, migrated to Ferryhill, co. Durham.

Martha, bap. 2 Sep., 1764.

Rachel, bap. 5 Oct., 1766.

Sarah, bap. 19 Mch., 1769.

George, bap. 4 Feb., 1771, ob. 1772.

Francis, as below.

John, bap. 1 Jan., 1778.

George, bap. 31 Aug., 1779, ob. 1784.

Barnabas, bap. 19 Apr., 1784, ob. 1786.

Francis, bap. 11 Feb., 1773, migrated from Full Sutton to Knedlington, co. York, and died 4 Oct., 1849. He married Mary, dau. of Thomas Mitchell, of Kelfield, co. York, 30 Dec., 1797. She died 8 April, 1855, leaving issue.

The writer will esteem it a favour if any reader will kindly assist him in extending the pedigree appended, (payment will be willingly made for authentic information, if desired), either through the medium of this magazine, or by communication to Gerald W. Maw, 7, Gibbon's Road, Bedford.

Mrs. Hephzibah Richardson.

By favour of Mr. Richardson, of Shortlands, Kent, we have pleasure in adding the portrait of Mrs. Richardson to our gallery of Yorkshire worthies. That of her husband appeared in 1890 in the Yorkshire Genealogist. The oil paintings are still in good preservation, and we wish that other gentlemen would thus save the identity of ancient portraits by having them copied.

The late Mr. Swift, stamp distributor of Sheffield, made copies of several documents relating to the Richardson and Prime families. It is to be hoped that Dr. Jackson, Sheffield, will have the MSS. printed, as they probably will prove of wide interest. The following notes will meantime serve to accompany Mrs. Richardson's portrait.

Christopher Richardson, A.M., of Trin. Coll., Camb., of Lascelles Hall, Kirkheaton, and Hephzibah, daughter of the Rev. Edward Pryme, (ejected Minister of Sheffield,) were married at Sheffield, 23rd Jany., 1682-3, the day after the settlements were signed.

She was born 3rd Jany. 165. A memorandum in her father's MS. is thus, "October 5, 1653, I was ordained. I was married Jan. 31, 165. On Jan. 3, 165, Hephzibah my first child was borne about 12 a clock at night, being Wednesday, I baptized her the 21st of that month in Baslon Church," (that is in Derbyshire.) She married a second time 24 or 26 July, 1722,* the Rev. Robt. Ferne, another ejected minister, the same one that preached Mr. Pryme's funeral sermon, which was printed. She survived him also, and seems to have retired to Hemsworth, a little village in the parish of Norton, about 3 miles from Sheffield, here she made her will, dated 15 Jany. 173.

The Thomas Richardson of Lassell Hall, to whom she left "my pictures, desk, and a cradle covering," was the grandson of her first husband by his first wife Elizabeth.

The pictures were doubtless portraits of herself and her first husband, copies of which by Sir Francis Chantrey are at Ravensfell, Bromley, Kent, in the possession of Mrs. Eliz. Richardson, the widow of John Richardson, who was the fifth in descent from the Rev. Chr. Richardson, Rector of Kirkheaton.

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The cradle-covering is in my possession (W: R. R

Extracted from the District Registry of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice at Lichfield.

I Hephzibah Fern In the parish of Norton, In the County of Derby, being of sound mind & perfect memory, do make & constitute this my last Will & Testament. Imprimis I give & bequeath unto Mrs. Smith of Stannington my Locket Item to my two nephews Thomas & Edward Moore each of them Five Shillings Item to Mary & Elizabeth the Daughters of Mr. Nathaniel Prime each of them two shillings & sixpence Item to Rachel Clayton two shillings & sixpence Item to *Note. Dickenson's Coley Register, p. 217, says July 25, 1722.

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