Excerpt from The Life of Marmaduke Rawdon of York, or Marmaduke Rawdon the Second of That Name: Now First Printed From the Original Ms. In the Possession of Robert Cooke, Esq. F. R. G. S Earl of Moira. Ralph, the younger son, migrated from his pa ternal home in the fest Riding, and settled at a place called Kep wick in the North Riding. He was the father of a second Ralph Rawdon, who, towards the close of the sixteenth century, was a country gentleman living at Stearsby, one of a number of small villages that lie nestled among the picturesque hills which form the north-eastern border of the great central plain of Yorkshire. Stearsby is not very far distant from Kepwick, which is situated near the southern extremity of the adjacent vale of Cleveland. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.