Hall (near to Elland), now a roadside inn; and, I should think, much smaller than it was when the Copleys lived there, as they were an old family of gentry, who would, at that time, be the owners of a large quantity of land. This ancient house, nothing particular to look at now, stands with its back on the edge of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway; and beyond a bridge of the road which leads from Barkisland to Halifax, which passes the inn door. The Savilles are reported to have come out of Anjou, a Norman province, now in France; but before that time, they are said to have been a tribe called the Savelli, in Northern Italy. Their present representatives are the Earl of Mexborough, of Methley Park, near Leeds; the Lords Saville, of Rufford Abbey, near Ollerton, Notts., etc. The co-heir of this family of Saville carried this estate of Shibden into that of Waterhouse, an ancient and widespread family in this district, who were, when I was in Halifax last, represented by Major Waterhouse, of Well-Head, near Halifax. These Waterhouses were Lords of the manor of Halifax. In the principal window of the banquetting, or "great hall", which Mr. Lister showed me when I first called upon him a few years ago, is a quartered Coat-of-Arms of Waterhouse, all of which I am familiar with: as there was a branch of this family of Waterhouse living at a village called Braithwell, about eight miles from where I was born, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, between Rotherham and Doncaster.

This quartered shield impaled that of Waterton of Walton Hall, near Wakefield.

Nathan Drake of Godley, the diarist of the siege of Pontefract Castle, 1644-1646; and Francis Drake, the learned author of Eboracum, whose father, grandfather and great-grandfather had been vicars of Pontefract, were descended from these De Schepdens, of Schepden, or Shibden, in the parish of Halifax.

There are several old houses in this neighbourhood that have the initials of the Drakes over their entrancedoors.

We now come to the Waterhouses.

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This family, originally from Kirton-in-Lindsey, district in North Lincolnshire, was called in the parlance of the days in which they lived, long ago, Waterhouse, or "Ab aquæ Domo", in Latin. Their coat-of-arms in these early days, as I have seen many years ago, in the Heralds' Visitation of Yorkshire, were "gules, three wells or water-houses argent, in the upper part in a square compartment, water, undèe, argent and azure. Crest, they had none then: but the modern arms of this family of Waterhouse, three hundred years ago, and up to the present time, was "or, a pile engrailed sable:" also alluding to the name of Waterhouse, as a house built upon piles in the water. The crest, three hundred years ago, was "a demi-eagle, dimidiated paleways, sans head, sable"; now it is an eagle's leg. I am sorry that I cannot complete the description from

memory.

The first Waterhouse, Sir Gilbert of Kirton-Lindsey, married an heiress of a Norman family, named De Longvaile, and they were entitled to several quarterings.

I call this "an old family." It requires a romantic mind to take in all this, because we all belong to "old families."

"When Adam delved, and Eve span, who was then the gentleman ?"

What we call an old family is one that we can trace back for hundreds of years: but if we can do that, it is not much in these democratic days-when "Jack is as good as his master"—if we have not some good qualities

in us.

Well, the Waterhouses have been resident in the parish of Halifax since the fourteenth century; and they were exceedingly numerous in the sixteenth century. There were several branches of them located in this neighbourhood, owning much landed property ; and many of them were also engaged in trade and manufactures in the town of Halifax.

Richard Waterhouse, of Hollins-in-Worley, about three miles from Halifax, who died in 1448, married Margaret, daughter of William Oates of Shibden.

Robert Waterhouse, who was Lord of the manor of Halifax, and also the great lessee of the tithe and advowsons of the Priory of Lewes in Sussex, lived at the Moot Hall in Halifax, which we might call the "Manor House." In Leyland's Ancient Houses of Halifax Parish it looks a very good, substantial, and respectable residence, taken evidently from some ancient drawing; but when I was in Halifax, some years ago, trying to find out this ancient hall-to which there was a bowling-green attached--before the rage for railways, education, and money-making set in, I was directed down. through an ancient street called the " Woolshops," where the wool trade was formerly carried on. I was motioned to a dingy-looking building, which I had considerable difficulty in recognising as the Moot Hall, in Leyland's book, and I found that it is, now, used as the parish workhouse!

"Hei mihi! quanta de spe decidi."

The grandson of this Robert Waterhouse was another Robert Waterhouse, of the Moot Hall, in Halifax, and Shibden Hall, living in 1585, who married Jane, daughter of Thomas Waterton, Esq., of Walton Hall, near Wakefield. The celebrated naturalist, Charles Waterton, a Roman Catholic, now deceased, whose researches on the Amazon in South America are well known to students of natural history, was a descendant of this marriage; and he lived at Walton Hall, and is now represented by some member of the family. Charles Waterton had some very curious and good ideas. He had a moat round his house; and on Sunday afternoons he used to let the old men of his village. of Walton come and fish in the moat.

The son of this last-named Robert Waterhouse was Sir Edward Waterhouse, Knt., who was born in 1581, and who sold Shibden Hall in 1612 to the Lister family.