members of the noble Lord's family. A numerous party of spectators from Leeds and the surrounding villages were assembled in front of the entrance hall to witness their arrival; and the Harewood troop of the Yorkshire Hussars, commanded by the Hon. W. Sebright Lascelles, was drawn up in front of the mansion, to do honour to the Royal Party. The bells of the village church were also kept ringing from an early hour in the morning. Amongst the members of their Royal Highnesses' suite, were the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland, the Baroness Litzen, Lady Caroline Jenkinson, Miss Harcourt, Lady Flora Hastings, Sir John Conroy, &c.

Shortly after their arrival. the Royal Party, and the members of Lord Harewood's family, to the number of twenty and upwards, partook of a very splendid luncheon, which was served up in the music room; and in a little time afterwards, the Duchess of Kent, the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland, the Earl and Countess of Harewood, and some of the ladies of the Royal suite, took a carriage airing through the domains of the noble Earl, but the Princess Victoria was too much fatigued to join the party.

In the evening a very numerous company, comprising the immediate relatives and personal friends and neighbours of the noble Earl, who had been invited for the purpose of rendering due honour to the heiress of the throne of these realms, dined at the mansion. The dinner was of the most sumptuous kind. It was served up in the gallery, which was laid out in the most superb style, the tables almost literally groaning beneath the weight of the gold and silver services of plate, with which they were loaded. Some of the pieces of gold plate at the principal table, were as heavy as one person could carry. A great many persons were admitted to see the arrangements, and they were certainly on a scale both as to splendour and extent rarely witnessed. Covers were laid for about 130; and, in addition to their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria, we understand there were present, the Earl and Countess of Harewood, the

Duke and Duchess of Northumberland, Lord Viscount and Viscountess Milton, Archbishop of York and Miss Georgiana Harcourt, Lady Caroline Jenkinson, Lady Flora Hastings, Baroness Litzen, Sir John Conroy, Mr. Berkeley Portman and Lady Emma Portman, the Hon. William Sebright and Lady Caroline Lascelles, Hon. Henry Lascelles, Hon. Edwin Lascelles; Hon. Arthur, Mrs. Lascelles, and Miss Brooke; Charles Warburton, Esq., and Mrs. Warburton, Lord and Lady Howden, Col. and the Hon. Mrs. Lane, Sir Charles Ibettson, Bart., Sir John V. B. Johnstone, Bart and Lady Johnstone, G. L. Fox, Esq., C. Wilkinson, Esq., Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Ridley, Col. Markham, Miss Holbeach, Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. H. Ramsden, Benjamin Gott, Esq., John Gott, Esq., Rev. Mr. Dayrell, Rev. Robert Markham, Mrs. and Miss Markham, Mr. and Mrs. Wharton, Mrs. Maxwell, Rev. Jacob Marsham, Rev. George and Mrs. Lewthwaite, Rev. W. A. Beckwith, Lord and Lady Stourton and the Hon. Miss Stourton; Rev. Thomas, Mrs., and Miss Barnes; Rev. Ayscough and Mrs. Fawkes, Randall Gossip, Esq. and Mrs. Gossip, Hon. Sir E. M. Vavasour, Bart., and Miss Vavasour, Sir John and Lady Lowther, J. H. Lowther, Esq., M.P. and Miss Lowther, Richard York, Esq., Edwd. York, Esq., John York, Esq. and Mrs. York, William Beckett, Esq., T. L. Fairfax, Esq. and Mrs. Fairfax, Mr. T. and the Misses Fairfax, Rev. D. and Mrs. Markham, Mr. and Mrs. Fenton Scott, William Prest, Esq., T. D. Bland, Esq., Hon. Mrs. Bland and Miss Bland, Rev. E. Duncombe, Hon. and Rev. W. Herbert, Mrs. and Miss Herbert, Mr. and Lady E. Ashe, Mr. Duncombe, Rev. B. Eamonson, Major Gen. Sir H. Bouverie, G.C.B., and Lady Bouverie, Rev. George and Mrs. Fenton, Lady Caroline Fox, Hon. and Rev. A. H. Cathcart and Miss Cathcart, George Banks, Esq., W. R. C. Stansfield, Esq. and Mrs. Stansfield, W. Hatfield, Esq., Rev. A. and Miss Marsden, Mr. Marsden, Mr. Gibbs, R. H. Roundell, Esq., High Sheriff, Major and Mrs. Wyndham, Mr. and Mrs. Dyke, Hon. Col. Caradoc, Christopher Beckett, Esq., &c., &c.

The royal and noble party sat down to dinner at six o'clock, and soon after ten the company began to separate.

On Sunday the Princess and her illustrious Mother attended divine service in the parish church, and as the day was fine, a tremendous concourse of people assembled. The royal party proceeded to church on foot, and notwithstanding the vast crowd, the greatest good order prevailed. The Duchess of Kent walked first with the Earl of Harewood, next came the Princess Victoria and Miss Harcourt, followed by the Duchess of Northumberland, Countess of Harewood, Baroness Litzen, Lady Eliz. Jenkinson, Lady Flora Hastings, Lady Caroline Lascelles, Duke of Northumberland, Archbishop of York, Lord Milton, Hon. W. S. Lascelles, Hon. Ed. Lascelles, Mr. B. Portman, &c. The Duchess of Kent and the Princess returned the salutations of the spectators. The Church was crowded to excess. Prayers were read by the Rev. Mr. Grundy, and the sermon was preached by the Archbishop of York, from the ix ch. of St. John's Gospel and 4th verse, "the night cometh when no man can work."

Upwards of 10,000 people were congregated on their return from church, many of whom waited until the afternoon service, in the expectation of again satisfying their curiosity, but the Earl of Harewood kindly intimating that it was not the intention of his illustrious visitors to go to the church again, they very quietly and speedily dispersed. At ten o'clock the Royal party left Harewood for Wentworth, passing through Leeds."

In the month of August, 1839, Her late Majesty Adelaide, the Queen Dowager, accompanied by Earl Howe and her suite, paid a visit to Harewood House en route for the north. Her Majesty was escorted from Leeds to Harewood by a troop of the Yorkshire Hussars.

EXTINCT VILLAGES.

There are no less than five villages which formerly existed within the township of Harewood, which are now completely gone, and in one instance, its very site has disappeared and its name forgotten, save in the public records. Some particulars respecting each will be interesting.

STOCKTON.

This is the first of these extinct villages, and is thus mentioned in Domesday Book:

"In Stochetun Roschel had five carucates and six oxgangs to be taxed. Land to four ploughs. Twenty shillings."

The remains of this village, half a mile E. of Harewood, occupying a large area, were existing within the last century. It is said that a chapel of ease stood here about the year 1400, but there is no evidence of this, either in the registers of the parish church or in any Mss. which have come under my notice.

As many querns have been found here, I should imagine that it must have been either a station or encampment during the Roman era. Its situation must have been delightful in the extreme. Standing on the summit of a

hill everlooking the valley of the Wharfe in one direction, and in the other the plain of York, while on the north east the Hambledon Hills are distinctly seen. In a list of West Riding villages, given in the Warburton Collection of the Lansdowne Mss., Stockton does not occur, it may, therefore, fairly be presumed that it had ceased to exist as a village prior to the year 1600, and this opinion is further confirmed by the entire absence of the name from most of the documents which I have consulted. It is a singular instance of the duration of a name, when the place indicated has so long ceased to exist, that the two farm houses occupying the site are still called Stockton.

LOFTHOUSE.

This village stood in the park on the left hand side of the Leeds and Harrogate Turnpike Road, just below the iron gates. It was a separate manor, and is thus referred to in Domesday Book:

"In Lofthuse Alsi and Roschel had two carucates to be taxed. Land to one plough. Ten shillings."

In the Har. Mss., vol. 802, fol. 81, there are the following entries:

"Lofthouse, in Harewood, 10 John, 1209. Between Hugh de Lelay and Christian, his wife, demandt. Alan de Collum, tenant of three carucates of land with the appurtenances in Lofthouse, and of five bovates of land with the appurtenances in Brakenholme, the right of Christian."