Embellished with a View of an Ancient Mansion at HIGH SUNDERLAND PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY BENTHAM AND RAY, HIGH-STREET, (To whom Communications, post paid, may be addressed :) SOLD, ALSO, BY BALDWIN, CRADOCK, AND JOY, LONDON; AND ALL OTHER BOOKSELLERS. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. WE have this month the pleasing task of acknowledging the receipt of a large supply of original communications from our friends. Besides those which appear, we have received Topography of Rotherham,-An elaborate History of the Judicial Combat,-Mr. W-w-t's paper on Monastic Institutions, P. G.'sremarks on "the Gift of Tongues," -J. B.'s translation of Petrarch's Sonnets, the Steam-Packet, - Mr. Langley on Fate, -A. M.'s lines on the Sun, - Mr. Harksey's Mathematical Solutions and Questions,-Lines on a Seal with "Depechez vous" for its motto, Sonnet to Laura, - Flora's lines on the Goldfinch,-and Hints and Suggestions from T. S. which we will not forget. We have some reason to think that FEBRUA is occasionally a smoker; we mean not, of tobacco, but of something far more pungent, annoying, and frequently injurious. If on further examination the observations on this subject be not thought too particular, we shall give them a place in our next. Vermiculus, P. G.-J. B.'s sounets, - My Cradle, and the Nettle, -are intended for our next. The paper on the plurality of worlds is too loose and incorrect for our purpose. We beg Mr. BASDEN to accept our acknowledgments for his letter, and at the same time we request a continuance of his favours. - V. F. F. is always acceptable. To our fair correspondent who writes from the "Banks of the Ouse," we give it as our opinion that she can write well: if her compositions were rather less desultory, we think they would be improved, and very acceptable to the readers of the NORTHERN STAR.... ni. THE NORTHERN STAR. No. 12.-For MAY, 1818. Topography, Picturesque Scenery, &c. 1 ANCIENT MANSION AT HIGH-SUNDERLAND, NEAR HALIFAX. To the Editors of the Northern Star. WITH the drawing of the House at High-Sunderland, communicated by a friend, it will perhaps be interesting to your readers to have the following extracts from "The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Halifax, &c. by the Rev. John Watson, M.A." 4to. London, 1775. "High-Sunderland (situated about a mile north of Halifax, between the Bradford and Wakefield roads) was so called, as being, perhaps in ancient times, a farm which the Anglo-Saxons called by the name of Sunder or Sundor-lond; or it might be separated or set apart for some particular purpose or privilege, the knowledge of which is now lost; for in that case they would give it this name, as being sundered or divided from the lands about it. It is called High because situated at the top of a hill. "When the present fabric at High-Sunderland was erected, does not appear by any inscription upon the building, but it was either the work of Richard Sunderland, who married Susan Saltonstall, about 1597, or of his son Abraham, who married Elizabeth Langdale; but more probably the latter, because we meet with the arms of Saltonstall and Langdale, impaled with those of Sunderland, in the windows. This house seems once to have been well ornamented; there are still some statues and busts remaining of tolerable workmanship. In a chamber-window, under the arms of Saltonstall, Langdale, and Thornhill, of Fixby, Fælix quem virtus generosa exornat avorum, These letters, L. S., stand for Langdale, Sunderland, but I think them not so old as the house, because in another place the arms of Saltonstall and Langdale (as above) are impaled with those of Sunderland, which would belong to this Langdale's father to do. This Langdale also appears to have lived a good part of his time at Coley-hall, and to have sold the estate so late * Happy is he whom the illustrious virtue of his ancestors adorns, and who, by his own virtue, adds lustre to theirs. Uu |