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Newall, Yorkshire, England. Further historical information.

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NEWALL

NEWALL, in the township of Newall with Clifton, and parish of Otley, upper-division of Claro, liberty of Cawood, Wistow, and Otley; 1 mile from Otley, 11 from Leeds. Pop. including Clifton, 208, which being united, form a township.

Newall, now in a decayed state, was formerly the seat of Edward Fairfax, Esq. a celebrated Poet, who flourished in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I. He had a liberal education, but led a retired life at his favourite seat here, when he devoted himself to the muses, and died at Newhall, about the year 1632. He published a work on Daemonology, entitled "A discourse of Witchcraft, as it was acted in the family of Mr. Edward Fairfax, of Friestone, in the county of York, in the year 1621," but his great work is a translation of Tasso's Poem of "Godfrey of Boulogne," which was once very popular. --Biog. Dict.
[Description(s) edited from various 19th century sources by Colin Hinson © 2013]