^{page xi note a} Duoatus Leodiensis, or the Topography of the Town and Parish of Leedes in the West Riding of the County of York. By Ralph Thoresby, F.R.S. Folio. London, 1715, p. 868.

^{page xii note a} Laurence Rawdon ranked as a merchant, but his special business or trade was that which would now be called a wholesale grocer. Sugar, a costly luxury in those days, was one of the articles in which he dealt. Here is one of his bills for sugar-loaves supplied to the corporation to form part of a complimentary offering presented by the Lady Mayoress of York, and the aldermen's ladies, to Lady Sheffield, the wife of the Lord President of the North, upon her first coming to the Royal Manor at York in the year 1603.

Bought of Laurance Rawdon,

ij loves of superfine sewgar weinge xij^li xiiij^oz., at xxiij^d. per^ll. xxiiij^s. ix^d.

The following payment is entered in the account of the city chamberlains for the year 1606:

To Lawrence Rawdon for xxviij^li. v^oz. of suger, bestowed of Mrs. Mathew, my lord archbusshop's wife, at her first coming to York, by my lady Mares & ladies, xlij^s. iij^d.

^{page xiii note a} See Memoir, p. 1, post.

^{page xiv note a} Afterwards translated to the see of Bristol, and finally Bishop of Worcester.

^{page xiv note b} A single example may suffice. The late Thomas Philip Weddell Robinson, Earl de Grey, K.G. and his brother the late Frederick John Robinson, Earl of Ripon, were of the seventh generation in lineal male descent from William Robinson, a merchant and alderman of York, who died in the year 1616. His great-grandson Sir Metcalfe Robinson was created a Baronet in 1660. A century later, Thomas Robinson, the grandson of Sir Metcalfe, was advanced to the dignity of the peerage as Lord Grantham, and afterwards succeeded to the baronetcy. The present Earl de Grey and Ripon, the great grandson of the first Lord Grantham, enjoys the peerages of his father and uncle and the baronetcy of his more remote ancestor. “Alderman William Robinson was a near neighbour of Laurence Rawdon. They lived and died in the same parish and were buried in the same church.

^{page xv note a} He was buried in the parish church of Saint Crux at York on the 6th July, 1626.

^{page xv note b} Ed. 1811, vol. ii. p. 540.

^{page xv note c} Ed. 1705, p. 190.

^{page xv note d} Thomas Morton, the eminent Bishop of Durham, whose father was a York merchant, was educated at York under Mr. Pulleyn. In a memoir of the bishop, published at York in 1669, the author of which was his secretary and chaplain, we have this passage:— “He was put to sehoole to learne the English elements in the same city, where, as I have heard him say, were his school-fellows Mr. Thomas Cheeke (after knighted by King James) grandchild to that famous scholler Sir John Cheeke, and Guy Faux, who afterwards proved that famous and fatall incendiary in that never to be forgotten gunpowder treason, which God Almighty, through King James his singular and divine wisdome, most happily prevented and subverted.”—The Life of Dr. Thomas Morton, Bishop of Duresme. 12mo. York, 1669, p. 4.

^{page xvii note a} Barbadoes was first settled under the authority of letters patent granted by James I.

A subsequent grant was made by Charles I. (See Verney Papers, ed. Caniden Soc. p. 193, note.) We learn from the Calendar of State Papers, 1628–29, that Mr. Marmaduke Rawdon was either sole or part owner of the following ships in the years 1626 and 1627:—

^{page xx note a} “Your best sack is of Zeres in Spain—your smaller, of Galicia and Portugal—your strong sackes are of the islands of the Canaries and Malligo.” Gervase Markham's English Housewife, 1st ed. 1631.

^{page note b} Epistolæ Ho elianse, ed. 1655, vol. ii. p. 71.

^{page xxiv note a} In the “Catalogue of Lords, Knights, and Gentlemen who have compounded for their estates “(London, 1655) are these names:—

^{page xxv note a} Memoir, p. 33 post.

^{page xxv note b} Memoir, p. 33 post.

^{page xxv note a} Memoir, p. 42 post.

^{page xxvii note a} The following is a list of the Rawdon portraits which were once brought together at Sledmere, in the marvellous collection of engravings formed by the late Sir Mark Masterman Sykes:—

^{page xxviii note 1} Lawrence Rawdon, Alderman of York. Died at York 25th July, 1626. By A. Hertocks.

^{page xxix note 2} Marmaduke Rawdon, son of that worthy gentleman Laurence Rawdon, late of the cittie of Yorke, alderman. By R. White.

^{page xxix note 3} Robert Rawdon, governor of Saint Thomas's Hospital. Died 15th Sept. 1644. A. Hertocks fec,

^{page xxix note 4} The true and lively portraiture of the most virtuous Lady Elizabeth Rawdon, wife to that most valliant collonel and worthy knight Sir Marmaduke Rawdon of Hodsden in Hartfordshire. Ætatis suæ 76. R. White sculp.

^{page xxix note 5} Collonel Thomas Rawdon, eldest son of that worthy knight Sir Marmaduke Rawdon. He died at Hodsden 30th July, 1666. Ætat 54. By R. White.

^{page xxix note 6} Marmaduke Rawdon of Hodesdon, esquire, second son to that valiant colonel and worthy knight Sir Marmaduke Rawdon, born in London 16th August, 1621. By R. White.

^{page xxix note 7} Katharine Bowyer, one of the daughters of Sir Marmaduke Rawdon, knight, and wife to William Bowyer of Laytonstone in Essex, esquire. R. White sculp.

^{page xxix note 8} Martha Williams, one of the daughters of Sir Marmaduke Rawdon, knight, and wife to Thomas Williams, gentleman, the fourth son of Sir Henry Williams of Gwernent in Brecknockshire, knight and baronet. R. White sculp.

^{page xxix note 9} Elizabeth Rawdon, wife to Mr. William Rawdon of Bermondsey. R. White delin and sculp.

^{page xxix note 10} . Sara Rawdon, wife to Marmaduke Rawdon of Hodsden, esquire. R. White sculp.

Such was the rarity of these engravings that, when- the Sledmere collection was dispersed by auction in March 1824, they were sold for five guineas each. The only Rawdon portrait I have found in the print-room of the British Museum is a small one of Sir George Rawdon :— “The true and lively pourtraiture of that valliant and worthy patriot and captaine Sr George Rawdon, knight and barronet. Ætatis suæ 63.” R. White delin. et sculp. The armorial bearings used by the elder branch of the family are placed within an oval beneath the portrait: Quarterly, 1. Argent, a fess between three pheons sable, Rawdon; 2. Argent, a fess between two lions passant regardant sable, Folifoot; 3. Argent, a chevron between three hind's heads erased gules, Beckwith; 4. On a fess three escallops, a canton ermine. On an inescutcheon the badge of a baronet of England. Crest, a pheon. Motto, “Nisi Dominus frustra.”

^{page xxx note a} “August 7th, 1712. Evening at Mr. Bagnal's, who obliged me with the sight of some curious manuscripts relating to the Rawdens, his wife's family.”

“August 8. Evening a little at the Grecian coffee-house with Dr. Sloane; was pleased in reading manuscript memoirs of the ancient family of the Eawdens, of Rawden in Yorkshire, of which Sir George, Sir Marmaduke, Colonel Rawden, and Mr. Marmaduke Rawden, the benefactor at York, were particularly memorable.” Diary of Ralph Thoresby, vol. ii. p. 154.

^{page xxxi note a} Borrácha (Span.), a leathern bag or vessel used for holding wine in travelling.

^{page xxxii note a} Probably Brice.

^{page xxxii note b} Sir John Hewley, knight, a Puritan lawyer, who settled in York some years prior to the Restoration, was the son of a country gentleman seated at Wistow in the West Riding. He was nearly related to the Hewleys of York, who were drapers or cloth merchants residing in Mr. Rawdon's native parish of St. Crux. Sir John was made a freeman of York in 1659 that he might be qualified for the appointment of city-counsel, which the corporation conferred upon him at that time. He represented the city in the parliaments of 1678, 1679, and 1681. He was also recorder of Doncaster. His wife, Dame Sarah Hewley, of whom Mr. Rawdon speaks with so much affection, was a wealthy heiress, the only child of Robert Wolryche, esquire, of Gray's Inn. The noble manner in which, after the death of her husband, she devoted her large estates to pious and charitable uses, became well known a few years -ago by the protracted litigation of which they were the subject. Sir John Hewley died at Bell Hall, a country house he bad built a few miles from York, on the 24th August, 1697, at the age of 78. Lady Hewley died at York on the 23rd August 1710. My friend the Reverend James Raine in his “Memoir of Mr. Justice Rokeby” (Surtees Society Publications, vol. 37) has printed several letters addressed by Lady Hewley to Sir Thomas and Lady Rokeby, which show the deep piety of her life and character.

^{page xxxiv note a} It may be doubted whether any of the sepulchral monuments which the testator wished to be placed in Broxbourne church, were ever executed. None such are now to be found there.

^{page xxxvi note a} Thomas Morton, bishop of Coventry and Liohfield, translated to the see of Durham in 1632, died 22 September, 1659, ætat. 95. Le Neve's Fasti Eecles. Angl. ed. Hardy, vol. iii. p. 296.

^{page xxxvi note b} Sir Thomas Widdrington, the well-known Speaker of the House of Commons, and Lord Keeper of the great Seal in the time of the Commonwealth, was recorder of York from 1638 to 1658. His valuable work entitled “Analecta Eboraeensia, or some Remains of the antient City of York” has never been printed, although several MS. copies are still in existence. Mr. Drake borrowed largely from his predecessor.

^{page xxxvii note a} MS.^XVI in the Minster library, described as “Drake's History of York.” See Eboracum, p. 189, note, where Mr. Drake acknowledges his obligations to this manuscript, which was then in his hands, the collector, he says, unknown.

^{page xxxviii note a} William Frederick Rawdon esquire, of York, the present representative of one of the numerous branches of the family of Rawdon, preserved this relic from destruction and judiciously consigned it to the care of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, in whose collection of antiquities it is now placed.