MONKSEATON RACES.

July 1st, 1812.

BY A SPECTATOR.

Six centuries since, some say, a son of South Seaton[79],

Was mulct for a monk he to mummy had beaten;

The prior there pilfer’d the prow of a pig,

And Delaval drub’d well the pillaging prig!

In commemoration of that great event,

Each anniversary in eclat is spent:

Though landlords liege-legates are bound to obey,