The Minor Family of Somerset

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Ribston Pippin Apple. from E. Cobham Brewere 1810-1897. Diction
ary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
"So called from Ribston, in Yorkshire, where Sir Henry Goodrick
e planted three pips, sent to him from Rouen, in Normandy. Tw
o pips died, but from the third came all the Ribston apple-tree
s in England
Gen UKI Hunsingore Parish
Great Ribstone in the parish of Hunsingore, upper-divison of Cla
ro; (Ribstone Hall, the seatof Sir Henry Goodricke, Bart.) 3 mi
les S. E. of Knaresborough, 4 from Whetherby. Pop including Wals
hford, 155, which being united, form a township.
After the conquest the manor of Ribstone was in the possession o
f William de Percy, and Ralph Pagnel. Robert Lord Ross became p
ossessed of it in the reign ofHenry III and in 1224, he settle
d this estate upon the Knights Templars, where they had a precep
tory, and which they enjoyed till the dissolution of their order
; when it was Granted to the renowned Charles Brandon, Duke of S
uffolk; of whom it was purchased by Henry Goodricke, esq. in 154
2; and here thisancient family, which previously flourished fo
r several generations at Nottingley, in Somerset, have bee
n settled ever since. The present Baronet isthe seventh: Sir H
enry Goodricke, Knight, who took arms in the cause of Charle
s I being the first Baronet, created August 14, 1641.
Ribstone Hall is situated upn an eminence, almost encompassed b
y the River Nidd, and commanding an extensive and beautiful pros
pect. The house is well finished, convenient,and elegant. I
n the Drawing Room are several good family Pportraits; and inth
e Saloon are a number of excellent Pictures, copied by eminent a
rtists, from the best originals in the Churches, chapels, and pa
laces of Rome. In theChapel are some monuments in memory of th
e Goodricke family; and in the Churchyard is that sepulchral mon
ument of the standard bearer to the ninth Romanlegion, which wa
s dug up in Trinity Gardens, near Micklegate, in York, in theye
ar 1688; and is described by Drake in hi Eboracum.
Ribstone is remarkablefor being the place, where that deliciou
s appled called the "Ribstone Pippin," was first cultivated in t
his kingdom. The original tree was raised from apippin, brough
t from France; from which tree, such numbers have been propagate
d, that they are now to be met with in almost every orchard in t
his, andmany other counties. -- Hist. Knaresborough. (Descri
ption(s) from Langdale's Topographical Dictionary of Yorkshire
. (1822)