b'divided into two cases, one having occurred on the 14th, the other on the 15th September. Several days subsequently to these dates a policeman visited the defendants farm, and in reply to inquiries as to whether there were any beasts with the plague upon it, was told by Robt. Fawcett, a brother, that there was a single beast ailing, and that he had called the attention of Mr Jepson, cattle inspector, of Bishop Wilton, to it. An examination led to the discovery in one of the defendants fields at Low Belthorpe of five beasts with the rinderpest, two so bad that they could not rise from the ground. In another field four were found in a like condition. The result was that on the 23rd the whole two herds of thirty-five beasts were, by Mr Jepsons orders, shot and buried. It was ascertained that three beasts had previously died and been buried, one on the 14th and two on the 15th September, andSecondly from a court case in 1890 2where Mr it was to these alone that the cases referred. Two ofFawcett (presumably Henry), the defendant, prevailed the beasts had been found buried in separate fields,and the judgement went against Mr Holderness both with little surface soil and no lime, and in one of(presumably William, an ironfounder who was living at the fields where burial had so taken place nineteenthe Chestnuts in 1881):beasts were pasturing. The third beast was foundAn important rider to this case is that other press to have been buried in the stack-yard, and the spotcoverage shows William Holderness was declared covered for secrecy, as though it were intended tobankrupt on March 18, 1890. Via other researches erect a stack over it. The defence set up by Robertwe know that William and his wife, Elizabeth, left Fawcett (the defendant not himself appearing) wasBishop Wilton for South Africa around this time. It that he thought the outbreak simply of foot and mouthwould appear that Levi Dales who had provided the disease, and that therefore it was not necessary to callmortgage for the Chestnuts where the Holderness in a veterinary inspector. The Bench thought the casesfamily lived (Elizabeth being his sister) took possession very aggravated ones, and inflicted a fine of 40 andand was in residence there by the census of 1901.costs 1 .1Leeds Mercury, Monday, October 7, 18722Leeds Mercury, March 10, 1890 A Commuter RouteAbout the foot path from High Belthorpe to Fangfoss 1O ther roadways ordered to be maintained in 1723out that to cycle to Fangfoss station over High [at the time of enclosure] were the way leading toBelthorpe would allow me to catch the early, all-Ox pasture, which was called Bramer Lane by 1844,stations train to York, and arrive in time at the Station and the way to Belthorpe, but both are now onlyOffice Complex. The good Baileys/Everingham bus field lanes. service of the time would provide back-up, and cover It might only have been a field lane by 1951 butour other requirements. This stratagem survived until it was a way to work for Geoff Scott who moved tothe first winter, when stock around the gateways Bishop Wilton, newly married to Ruth. He had this tomade the route impassable. I therefore cycled out via say in Bulletin No. 6: Snake Lane, Bolton etc, and returned via Gowthorpe With the help of a local OS map, we had workedand Youlthorpe.1Victoria County History, A History of the County of York East Riding: Volume 3, K J Allison (Editor), A PBaggs, G H R Kent, J D Purdy, 1976340 BULLETIN 17'