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 of a family which rose to great distinction: he himself is probably the John Cutler of Falthwaite, who on the 6th of April in that very year (1587) had married for his second wife Ann daughter of John Wordsworth of Brook-house, Penistone, widow of John Cudworth of Eastfield. Under Stainbrough is also "Richard Wadsworthe:" the Richard whose son William, of Falthwaite and Wraith House, married Marg. Cudworth in Jan., 1589, and from whom in direct succession in the sixth generation came the poet, William Wordsworth, and his brother Christopher, the latter being the father of the poet's distinguished nephews, the present Bishops of Lincoln and St. Andrews.

Under "Worsbroughe" in this Muster-roll is found Roger Elmhurste, of Elmhirst and Houndhill, who purchased the Manor of Silkstone, and whose ancestors had already been connected with Worsborough for two hundred years, as their direct descendants still continue to be. "William Wordsworthe" is the one "Privat Man" at Penistone, the son most probably of John Wordsworth of Waterhall: John Moxson, armed with a "Bill," is given for Hoylland Swayne, and William Catling as the Town Soldier there, though the words, "The man appears not," are added. In this name of Catling we have the origin of Catling Hall, now commonly called Cat-hill, afterwards the residence of the Sotwells. At Barnsley, we see Thomas Kesfurthe, being Thomas Keresforth of Keresforth-Hill; at Munckburton, George Woode, an ancestor of the present Lord Halifax, and Thos. Allot; at Dartor Nicholas Burditt, one of the great Burdett family of Birthwaite Hall.

In 1615, when the County of York was charged with the provision of 400 horses, we find the Cawthorne name of Thomas Barnby, Esq., set down for one, and that of Matthew Wentworth, Esq.

The following is an order from Richard Cudworth of Eastfield, as Chief Constable of this Wapentake, to the Constables and Sessors of Cawthorne, made from an exact copy of the order as retained by Richard Cudworth at the time:

"By vertue of a warrante to us directed under the hande and seale of Sir Thomas Danbye Knight and High SherifTe of the County of Yorke for the payment of £144 5s. 4d. charged upon our Weapentake of Stainecrosse, by vertue, towards providing two Ships for