IN MEMORY OF MARY, the daughter of W. B. Bayley, Esq., M.D., Who died, March 7th, 1806, aged 14. To the Memory of Samuel and Elizabeth Peacock, On the floor at the east end of the south aisle* : In Memory of HENRY TODD, ESQUIRE, Arms. Sa. a cross flory or. Here lieth the Body of Who died, September 5, 1734, There appear to be many slabs bearing inscriptions, in this aisle, which are covered by the seats erected in 1847. A surgeon, late of Whitby; formerly surgeon in the royal navy under admiral Rodney, (afterwards lord Rodney, of Rodney Stoke, co. Somerset); he died unmarried. Y Here lieth MARY, the wife of Daughter of DANIEL LASCELLS, Esquire, æt. 44. MARGT. GARNET* Ob. 12th August, 1785. æt. 77. Space will not admit a description of the numerous memorials of the dead which crowd the churchyard. Among the principal families, however, interred there, are the ancestors of Christopher Dighton, esq., William Dixon, esq., Henry Hirst, esq., John and Robert William Hodgson, esqrs., William Thrush Jefferson, esq., capt. Lascelles, Mrs. Rigg, William Dodsworth Walker, esq. Also the families of Addison, Beckett, Barstow, Gale, Hutton, Kemp, Kettlewell, Langdale, Meek, Midgley, Mitford, Readman, Rymer, Seaton, Smith, Squire, Todd, Walton, Wass, Welbank, &c. The vicarage, which is in charge, has belonged, time out of mind, to the prior and convent of Durham, who had a pension of 20s. out of the fruits thereof. At the dissolution, the patronage came to the dean and chapter of Durham, who have presented ever since. Torre does not give the ordination. Valued in pope Nicholas' taxation at £53 6s. 8d.; Nova tax: £13 6s. 8d.; Vicaria ejusdem, £20; Nova tax: £6 13s. 4d.; in the king's books at £17 10s. 6d., after deducting 20s. for a pension to the college of Durham; by Ecton, first fruits, £17 10s. 10d.; tenths, £1 15s. 1d.; and in the Valor Ecclesiasticus thus: Eldest dau. of Cuthbert Mitford, esq., born at N. A., 27th Nov., 1708; mar. at Brompton, 23rd Sep., 1731, to George Garnet, esq., attorney-at-law, of Furnival's Inn, London; buried at N. A., 14th Aug., 1785. RECTOR' ECCL'IE DE NORTHALV'- Est appriat' monaster' de Dunelm'. Scit' maner' sive manc' cũ gleba ibm p an lini v canabi v vitul' xl® agnell' vj lan' viij" & xxiij — viij alijs minutis decim' lxiiij cõibz ann' REPRIS' VIZ IN Denar' and' resolut' in ppetua pencoe p'ori mo'stij Dunelm' p divs' scolar in collegio suo sup❜dict' Et sic valet clare Xma ps inde XXXV The vicar had a pension, by composition of 40s. out of his tithes of Lazenby, held by the abbey of Jervaux, and valued at £20. A mortgage of £208 17s. 6d., under Gilbert's act, ceased in 1847. "Our church is endowed, (as plainly appears by an old cart. [No. III.] belonging to the cathedral church at Durham,) with all tithes, except those of corn, and all tithes whatever else have been constantly paid. The vicarage is about the value of £30." Signed "CHARLES NEILE, vic."* The present value is about £697 per annum. The impropriator, or proprietor of the rectory or great tithes, is Henry Beresford Peirse, esq., of Bedale; his grandfather, the late Henry Peirse, esq., M.P., bought them from the heirs of Edmund Prissick, esq., of Carlton, in Cleveland, son and heir of George Prissick, esq., his elder brother William having pur *Notitia Parochiales, No. 804. chased them of the earl of Ailesbury, in whose family they had been long vested, sold them to Mrs. Elizabeth Raine, of North Allerton, and she or her representatives to the above George Prissick. LIST OF VICARS. FROM 12.. To 1857. Gilbertus, 12. presented by the prior and convent of Durham, died 1267. John de Derlington, 1267, formerly vicar of St. Oswald, co. Durham. Peter de Killawe, 1302. Peter de Fishburn, 1311. Alan de Chiredon, S.T.P., 1323. Richard Askeby, 13. . resigned 1332 for the rectory of Sigston, near North Allerton. Edmund Cruer, 1332, formerly rector of Sigston, resigned in 1335 for the vicarage of Haltwhistle. Robert Dighton, 1335. John de Haytor, 13. . resigned 1382 for the living of Lynton. John de Gilling, 1382, died 1393. William Kamell, 1393, removed in 1396 to St. Ann's, London. Robert Ridmereshill, 1396, resigned in 1403 for the rectory of Barningham, in Richmondshire. John Staynfield, 1403, formerly rector of Barningham. John Corbridge, 14.. William Barker, S.T.P., 1421, resigned. William Middleton, 1422, resigned. John Thorneton, 1437, died 1447. John Levesham, 1447, resigned in 1455 for the living of Esington. John Treyndon, 1455, died 1465. Robert Walker, 1465, resigned. Bartholomew Radclyff, 1471, died 1474. Richard Rolletson, A.B., 1474, resigned. William Halyman, 1475, died 1491. John Fisher, M.A., 1491, resigned in 1494; elected bishop of Rochester in 1504. He assisted Henry VIII. in his book against Martin Luther, which procured the king, from the pope, the title of "Defender of the Faith." Henry being determined to shake off the papal yoke; Fisher refusing to acknowledge the king's supremacy in ecclesiastical affairs, was imprisoned in the tower, 21st April, 1534, and beheaded on Tower Hill, 22nd June, 1535. The unmerited fate of this prelate affords an instance of firmness and devotion to the dictates of his conscience; attesting the one by a steady defence of the persecuted Katherine of Arragon when abandoned by the rest of the world, and proving the latter by refusing, at the expense of his life, to acknowledge his sovereign's pretensions. He wrote "A Treatise concernynge the fruytful saynges of David the king and prophete in the seven penytencyall psalmes, devyded in ten sermons, was made and compyled by the ryght reverente fader in God, Johan Fyssher, doctour of dyvinyte and bysshop of Rochester, at the exortacion and sterynge of the most excellent pryncesse Margarete, countesse of Richmount and Derby, and moder to our souverayne lord kynge Henry the VII." At the beginning of the book, "sur une garde en velin," there is written in a very neat hand the following verses; the profession of faith of Thomas More and his friend bishop Fisher. Beneath "The surest meanes for to attaine "Qui non recte vivit in unitate ecclesiæ "Thomas Morus dûs cancellarius Angliæ *Techener's Bulleton du Bibliophile. The treatise is in the library at Douay. |