Harrogate and Knaresborough / by J.S. Fletcher.

  • Fletcher, J. S. (Joseph Smith), 1863-1935.
Date:
1920
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Harrogate and Knaresborough / by J.S. Fletcher. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    VII. CAVALIER AND ROUNDHEAD ONG before the worthy Mr. William Slingsby discovered the virtues of the Tewit Well at Harrogate, his ancestors had been men of note in the Forest of Knaresborough. Somewhat to the north of the old town lies Scriven, a desirable place, which has been in possession of either Scrivens or Slingsbys from some date closely approximating to that of the Norman Conquest. When Domesday Book was compiled Scravinghe was a berewic of the manor of Knaresborough, and contained six carucates of land, the property of the King, and it was, like most of the country round about, in a waste condition. Very soon it passed into the hands of the Scrivens, hereditary Foresters of the Royal Forest of Knaresborough, several of whom, Gamel the Fowler, Baldwin, and Henry, we hear of during the next two centuries. During the fourteenth century the Scriven male line died out, and the whole estate passed by marriage to William de Slingsby, who is said to have hailed from Slingsby near Hovingham. Henceforward the Slingsbys of Scriven were perhaps the most important people in the neighbourhood. They became connected with