Excerpt from County Folklore, Vol. 2
No stripling of Storyland ever set forth with lighter heart to fulfil the strange behest that should win the hand of the Princess, than did I, when I undertook to bring together such record as had been made in print, concerning the folk-lore of the North Riding. I cheerfully included in my list the Mother-City of "the shire of broad acres," and with her, the wapentake named from old-time in the same breath - the Ainsty; which as Canon Isaac Taylor ventures to surmise, may signify her ain - own, sti= enclosure, or place set apart; the latter being the O.N. word familiar to us in pig-sty. If after having had this charge for more than seven years upon my hands, and but few less upon my conscience, I feel less assurance of success than I did in the beginning, those only should be astonied who have not laboured in a like emprise, or who know too little of the topographic riches of North Yorkshire.
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