reign of Charles II., Sir Wm. Drake, the other moiety, purchased by J. Leashe, Esq., has passed by the name of the Earl's estate at Malpas. (See Lyson's His. Cheshire.)

Many of the shires were subdivided into what were called Hundreds. Each Hundred comprised a colony of one hundred families, or to put it more precisely, ten divisions. Each consisting of ten freeholders and their dependents, whose cause was championed by as many selected warriors sworn to defend them with their heart's blood. Between these hundred families a common bond existed; they also adopted a common name; they pledged to support the common defence of the hundred. Villages that were within the area of Saxon, England, are still said to be situated in such and such a Hundred.

By the word manor, so-called from the French manoir, a dwelling, and the Latin verb manere, to dwell, was originally meant an estate containing the dwelling or mansion of its feudal owner. The house itself was designated the manor house, and the owner, the Lord of the manor. The term mansion claims the same etymology.

Right Rev. Henry Tilson, D. D., Yorkshire Bishop, was born at Heptonstall, near Halifax in 1576. He was entered as a student in Baliol College, Oxford, in the beginning of the year 1593; took one degree in arts as a member of that house four years after, and soon afterwards was elected one of Skirlawe's Fellows of University College, and took a degree of master as a member of that house. In October, 1615, he was made vicar of Rochdale, in Lancashire, worth œ1500 a year; by the death of R. Kennion; and afterwards being made known to that most generous Count, Thomas, Earl of Strafford, he became his chaplain, and went with him in that capacity to Ireland, when that Earl was made Lord-Lieutenant thereof. Soon afterwards he was by him made Dean of the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, commonly called Christ Church, in Dublin, and Vice-Chancellor of the University, where, continuing in good esteem for his learning and piety, he had the See of Elphin conferred upon him, to which being consecrated on the 23d of September, 1639, he endured soon after great misery by the rebellion that broke out in Ireland in 1641.

Sir James Ware in his history of the Irish Bishops, says: "Bishop Henry Tilson on the 16th of August, 1645, delivered the Castle of Elphin in the hands of the Lord President of Connaught; his son, Capt. Henry Tilson, who was governor of Elphin, having just before joined with Sir Charles Coot in opposition to the King's interest, and about the same time his library and goods were pillaged by Boctius Egan titular Bishop of Elphin, his damages amounting to the sum of four hundred pounds. Bishop Tilson fled for safety into England, and settled at Soothall near Batley in the parish of Dewsbury, Yorkshire, where some of his relatives lived, and where he resided three years, intending to have returned to Elphin, but never did. Having thirteen in his family and being stripped of his income, he was obliged to have recourse to such means for subsistance as his station in the church