o Muston
Beacon, in the East Riding, and to the west of the beacons before named

"Charnell, three beacons, within the town of Scarborough adjoining to the
castle, do give light to Waipnesse and Muston beacon."

[Sidenote: "Rydal 1 Beacon]

There is a beacon in Rydall called Ampleforthe beacon well repaired. It
taketh light from Pickering beacon. It giveth light to the Sumclife
beacon, in the Wapentake of Birdforth, three miles distant from it
westward"

In 1598[1] the streets of Pickering are given as, Easte Gaite and
Hallgarthe, Ungate, Birdgate, Borrowgate and Weste Gate.

[Footnote 1: MS. book of Pickering Records in possession of the Rev.
Arthur Hill of Thornton-le-dale.]

Two interesting monuments of this period are to be found in Brompton and
Kirby-Moorside Churches. The first is carved on stone in the north wall of
the Church. It reads:--

"I.W. 1580. E.W. 1547. HEIR LIETH IAMES WESTROP WHO IN WARS TO HIS GREIT
CHARGES SARVED OIN KYNG AND TOW QVENES WITH DV_{O}BE_{O}IENS AND WITH OWT
RECVMPENS."

The brass at Kirby-Moorside is to the memory of Lady Brooke and bears this
verse as well as the inscription:--

"Prepare for death for if the fatall sheares
Covld have bene stayd by prayers, sighes or teares
They had bene stayd, and this tombe thov seest here
Had not erected beene yet many a yeare."

"Here lyeth the body of my Lady Brooke, who while she lyved was a good
woman, a very good mother, and an exceeding good wife. Her sovle is at
rest w^th God, for she was svre y^t her Redemer lyved, and that thovgh
wormes destroyed her body, yet shee shovld see God in her flesh. She died
the 12th of Jvly 1600."

From the different aspects of life at Pickering in the Tudor Period that
we have been able to give, something can be seen of the manner of living
at this time; but to have done justice to the materials that may be drawn
upon would have required a volume for what has of necessity been limited
to a chapter.

CHAPTER X

_The Forest and Vale in Stuart Times_

A.D. 1603 to 1714

As in the two preceding chapters the records belonging to the Stuart
period are so numerous that one is almost embarrassed at the mass of
detailed information that has been preserved, and it is only possible to
select some of the most interesting facts. Commencing with the parish
registers, however, we are confronted with a gap of about thirteen years.
After having been kept with regularity since 1559, there appea