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SETTRINGTON:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1750.

"SETTRINGTON, a parish in the E.R. of Yorkshire, near New-Malton, gave title of baron to the D. of Lenox's son in the R. of James I. who also created him E. of Richmond; but upon his death the title of the barony was extinct, till Cha. II. conferred it on his natural son, Cha. Lenos, D. of Richmond; from whom it is descendad to the present D."

[Transcribed by Mel Lockie © from
Stephen Whatley's England's Gazetteer, 1750]