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THE LEGENDS OF AlsILABY AND CANTON : Their Neighbours and Neighbourhood. By Colonel Sir James Digby Legard. (Simpkin Marshall. 25s.)—A very old and interesting group of East Riding families forms the subject of this careful monograph. Legard, Cholmley, Hotham, Cayley, Sykes and Dawnay are all historic names, and Sir James Legard's researches give them substance and character. The two Hothams, father and son, who first denied Hull to King Charles and then tried to betray the port to him and paid for their change of front with their lives, come prominently into the story. Sir Hugh Cholmley, whose mother was a Legard, held Scarborough for the King. On the other hand, Sir Thomas Widrington, whose daughter married a. Legard; was a leading Yorkshire Parliamentarian and Speaker of Cromwell's House in 1656. Some attractive family letters and to the naval and military service of later Legards, and there are good chapters on the Canton estate and munimeots. Such books supplement very usefully the ordinary national histories.
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