As witness our hands this 30th day of April, 1779.

THOMAS WRIGHT.

EDWARD CULLINGWORTH,

JOSEPH MIDGLEY.

JOHN MIDGley.

THOMAS BAYLEY.

JOHN WRIGHT.

JOHN WRIGHT, JUN.”

"We whose names are hereunto subscribed, being Protestant Dissenters, do intend to make use of the house of William Midgley in the town of Keswick, in the parish of Harewood, in the West Riding of the county and diocese of York, for the public worship of Almighty God.

As witness our hands this 20th day of April, 1795.

WILLIAM MIDGLEY.
JONATHAN MIDGLEY.
JOHN SMITHSON.

HENRY BREWERTONS.

THOMAS SAMPSON.

THOMAS WRIGHT."

As a Quaker's burial ground exists here, it may be inferred that this denomination was more numerous in this locality, formerly, than at the present time.

In the month of March, 1857, a new church was opened, the foundation stone having been laid in June of the previous year. It is a beautiful Gothic building, without any ornament, consisting of nave, chancel, and porch, with a small plain belfrey. The total cost amounted to nearly £1,500, the whole of which was raised through the instrumentality of the Vicar of Harewood, the Rev. Miles Atkinson, M.A.

From want of endowment, it has not yet been consecrated, it is however licenced for the celebration of Divine worship, which is regularly performed twice every Sunday by the Vicar and Curate alternately. There is a National School in the village, supported by the clergy, the average attendance of scholars being about forty.

The extent of the township amounts to 1460 acres, and the population in 1851 numbered 456.

SIR WILLIAM GASCOIGNE.

Sir Wm. Gascoigne was born about the middle of the reign of Edward III., A.D. 1350, at Gawthorpe Hall, in the parish of Harewood, where his family had been seated for several centuries. He was of Norman extraction, and William was the great patronymic of the family, probably out of compliment to the Conqueror, there being sixteen Williams lineally succeeding each other, seven before and eight after the Chief Justice. He was educated at the University of Cambridge, and Gray's Inn, where his arms are to be found in a window in their hall, among the other dignitaries of their society. His success was very rapid, and having rendered valuable assistance to John of Gaunt, afterwards Henry IV., in managing the concerns of the Duchy of Lancaster, he speedily rose into favour, and was appointed Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, A.D. 1401, and knighted shortly after the accession of this monarch. Lord Campbell says, "never was the seat of judgment filled by a more upright or independent magistrate." His refusal to try Archbishop Scrope and Thomas Mowbray, son of the banished Duke of Norfolk who had died in exile, are noble instances of this. "Much am I

beholden to your Highness, and all your lawful commands I am bound by my allegiance to obey: but over the life of the prelate I have not, and your Highness cannot give me any jurisdiction. For the other prisoner, he is a peer of the realm, and has a right to be tried by his peers.' This was noble language, but unfortunately a less scrupulous Judge was found who condemned both of them, and they were accordingly beheaded.*

His committal of Henry V. to prison, while yet Prince of Wales, for striking him while on the seat of justice, is well known. When the King heard of it, he exclaimed, "Happy is the King who hath a Judge so resolute in administering the law, still happier in having a son who submits to it."

This event has been immortalized by Shakspere. Hen. IV, part ii, act v, scene ii.

King. You all look strangely on me;-and you most:

You are, I think, assur'd I love you not.

[To the CHIEF JUSTICE

Ch. Just. I am assured, if I be measured rightly, Your majesty hath no just cause to hate me.

As a specimen of his decisions, the following is interesting:

A dispute between William, Lord Roos, and Robert Tirwhit, one of the Justices of the Court of King's Bench, relative to a pasture right and turbary at Melton Roos, in Lincolnshire, was referred to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Richard, Lord Grey, the King's Chamberlain, who deputed Lord Chief Justice Gascoigne to settle the question between the parties. Tirwhit acknowledged the trespass, and it was awarded that he should in recompesam, furnish two tuns of wine of Gascony, two fat oxen, and nine sheep, for a dinner to those who were present at Melton at the enquiry.

King. No!

How might a Prince of my great hopes forget,
So great indignities you laid upon me?

What! rate, rebuke, and roughly send to prison,
The immediate heir of England! Was this easy?
May this be washed in Lethe, and forgotten?

Ch. Just. I then did use the person of your father;
The image of his power then lay in me;
And in the administration of his law.
Whiles I was busy for the commonwealth,
Your highness pleased to forget my place,
The majesty and power of law and justice,
The image of the king, whom I presented,
And struck me in my very seat of judgment:
Whereon, as an offender to your father,
I gave bold way to my authority,

And did commit you. If the deed were ill
Be you contented, wearing now the garland,
To have a son set your decrees at nought;
To pluck down justice from your awful bench,
To trip the course of law, and blunt the sword
That guards the peace and safety of your person:
Nay, more; to spurn at your most royal image,
And mock your workings in a second body.
Question your royal thoughts, make the case yours;
Be now the father, and propose a son:

Hear your own dignity so much profaned,

See your most dreadful laws so loosely slighted,
Behold yourself so by a son disdained;
And then imagine me taking your part,
And, in your power, soft silencing your son.
After this cold considerance, sentence me;
And, as you are a king, speak in your state,
What I have done that misbecame my place,

My person, or my liege's sovereignty.

King. You are right, justice, and you weigh this well : Therefore still bear the balance and the sword:

And I do wish your honours may increase,