WENSLAY, (Yorkshire, N.R.) near Midlam, had in the R. of Edw. II. a Mt. on T. and a Fair on Trinity-eve and day, obtained
by one of its Lds. the Scroops, whose successor, (chancellor to Richard II.) got a licence also to make a castle of his
manor-house adjoining to this village, and to make its p.-Ch. collegiate. The Scroops enjoyed this estate many
successions, till the death of Emanuel Scroop Earl of Sunderland, in the R. of Charles I. without lawful issue.