BROTHERTON, a parish comprising the township
of Brotherton in the liberty of St-PETER-of-YORK,
East riding, and the townships of Byrome with Pool,
and Sutton, partly in the same liberty, but chiefly in the
lower division of the wapentake of BARKSTONE-ASH, West
riding, of the county of YORK, and containing 1626 inhabitants,
of which number, 1491 are in the township of
Brotherton, 1 a mile (N. N. W.) from Ferry-Bridge. The
living is a discharged vicarage, in the peculiar jurisdiction
and patronage of the Dean and Chapter of York, rated
in the king's books at £5. 6.. 8. The church is dedicated
to St. Edward the Confessor. There is a place of worship
for Wesleyan Methodists. This parish is bounded
btt the south and west by the river Aire, and contains
limestone of a fine quality, there being various kilns
for burning it. In June 1300, Margaret, the second
wife of Edward I., having been taken in labour whilst
hunting in the neighbourhood, was delivered of a son
at the village, to whom the name Thomas de Brotherton
was given; he was created Earl of Norfolk and Earl
Marshal of England, and from him, in the female line,
descended the Mowbrays, Dukes of Norfolk: the house
in which this event occurred is stated by tradition to
have stood on part of a plot of land of about twenty acres,
not far from the church, which the tenants are obliged,
by the tenure of their land, to keep surrounded
by a stone wall. There is an endowment of £5 a year
for the instruction of children, arising from a bequest of
£100 by Mr. Wilson, in 1731.