THORNTON DALE
Torentune (xi cent.); the addition 'Dale' is not
found until the 19th century.
This parish was composed in 1866 (fn. 1) of the townships of Thornton Dale and Farmanby. In earlier
times Ellerburn (q.v.) and Farmanby formed a joint
township and in 1824 the township of Thornton was
in Thornton parish and the township of Thorntoncum-Farmanby in Ellerburn parish. (fn. 2) Thornton
Dale, Ellerburn and Farmanby now form one township. (fn. 3) Roxby, the site of which is in the present
parish, was in the 15th (fn. 4) and 17th centuries in the
parish of Ellerburn. (fn. 5) Dalby (Dalbi, xi cent.), (fn. 6)
Cleufield and Haverberge were places in Thornton
parish in the 14th century. (fn. 7) 'Chetelestorp' is mentioned next to Dalby in 1086. (fn. 8)
The area of Thornton Dale, including Ellerburn,
is 9,689 acres, (fn. 9) of which 2,680 acres are arable,
2,620 acres permanent grass and 233 acres woodland.
The subsoil is Kimmeridge Clay and Corallian Beds,
the soil gravel and limestone; alluvium is also
found. Stone, sand and gravel are worked and lime
burned. The chief crops raised are wheat, barley
and oats. An inclosure award for Thornton was
made in 1781. (fn. 10)
The parish lies immediately east of Pickering, the
old 'King's Waste below Pickering' ending with the
Thornton boundary. The height varies from 500 ft.
to 800 ft. on the moors in the north, which stretch
up as far as Staindale, and gradually sinks down to
the Derwent in the south.
The village is one of the most picturesque in the
district, and is built at the crossing of the Malton and
Whitby and the Pickering and Scarborough roads.
The streets are lined with trees; the Thornton
Beck, which runs along beside the main street, divides
near the centre of the village, one branch running
beside the Malton road. It is crossed here by
numerous small bridges of wood and stone, the houses
on the far side having a narrow pathway between
them and the stream. In the middle of a small green
stands the village cross, a slender octagonal stone
shaft, now capped by a knob or ball. The base is
raised on six stone steps, at the foot of which stands a
modern copy of the old stocks. Lady Lumley's
almshouses, on the north side of the main street,
consist of a long rectangular block of twelve tenements,
one story high, built in 1656 and each having a door
and a two-light Jacobean Gothic window with cusped
heads. At the east end, but detached from the
almshouses, is a schoolhouse of the same date, three
bays long and measuring internally 40 ft. 3 in. by
20 ft. 6 in. The walls are of rubble with rusticated
angles, a stone cornice, and a small bell in the end
gable. The end window is pointed and of three
lights of 'Perpendicular' character. The windows on
the east side are of two lights and transomed, and
there are two, similar, in the north end and one on
the west. The door is in the east wall, and at the
north end is a modern fireplace. The building has
a flat plaster ceiling coved at the sides.
The church stands on a rise at the east end of the
village and opposite it is the rectory. A short
distance to the west on the south of the main road
is Thornton Hall, the property of Capt. Hill, who
possesses some valuable local manuscripts. A capital
messuage, water-mill and fulling-mill belonged to the
Latimers' manor of Thornton in 1335–6, (fn. 11) but the
capital messuage was in ruins in 1380. (fn. 12) The present
house was originally an H-shaped Elizabethan or
Jacobean building, and portions of the old work with
a chamfered plinth and mullioned windows remain in
the basement. Much of the existing walling above
is probably ancient, but the external features are all
of the 18th century, at which date a large wing was
built out to the north-east of the main block. The
present hall is stone paved and has a good 18th-century
stone fireplace. The park and its fish-ponds lie to
the south and by the side of the beck. Eastmead
described the Hall in 1824 as 'a large and commodious
modern mansion.' (fn. 13)
View in Thornton Dale Village
High Hall is at the west of the village, by Outgang
Lane. On rising ground to the west of Thornton
Dale is the site of Roxby Hall, once the seat of the
Cholmleys. Sir Richard Cholmley, who succeeded
to the estate in 1538, (fn. 14) built his gallery here of fourteen
loads of stone and two loads of slate from Pickering
Castle, especially using the material from the King's
Hall and the stairs in the chief tower; he also helped
himself to the forest oaks. (fn. 15) No masonry now remains
above ground, but the foundation mounds indicate
a building of considerable extent. The earthwork
defences were, however, unimportant. There was a
capital messuage at Farmanby in 1436 and 1650. (fn. 16)
Newstead Grange stands by Thornton Beck, near the
south-east of the parish, Low Newstead Grange by
the Derwent; they belonged to Rievaulx Abbey and
after the Dissolution were granted to the Archbishop
of York in fee, (fn. 17) but were subsequently alienated. (fn. 18)
The priory of Wilberfoss formerly held lands
here. (fn. 19)
Thornton Dale has a station on the North Eastern
railway. A Wesleyan chapel was erected in 1813
and a Primitive Methodist chapel in 1891. The
public elementary school was built in 1874.
Manors
Torbrand, Gospatrick and Tor held
3 carucates of land in THORNTON as
three 'manors' before the Conquest.
These were in 1086 in the king's hands, together
with other lands soke of his manor of Pickering,
making altogether 5½ carucates. Another carucate
belonged to Berenger de Toni. (fn. 20)
The Earl of Norfolk was mesne lord of the 28
carucates 8 oxgangs of land and various services that
the Earl of Albemarle held in Thornton, Newton,
Preston, Burniston, Ayton, Cayton, Lebberston and
Osgodby until the earldom of Albemarle came to
the Crown. (fn. 21)
The first mention found of the Albemarle fee in
Thornton is in 1180–9, when William de Mandeville
Earl of Essex (who in 1180 married Hawise daughter
of William le Gros, Countess of Albemarle in her own
right) (fn. 22) approved the boundaries made between his
land of Thornton and the King's Waste below
Pickering. (fn. 23) Whether William le Gros, the founder
of the abbeys of Meaux and Thornton, had a younger
daughter Avis or Amice is uncertain. (fn. 24) Hawise's
husbands and descendants for some time held the
earldom and estates of Albemarle and the honour of
Shipton in Craven which William le Gros had
obtained by his marriage with Cecily, heiress of
the Romillys. (fn. 25) The second and third husbands of
Hawise were William de Forz, who died in 1195,
and Baldwin de Betun, who died in 1212. (fn. 26) By
William de Forz she had a son William, one of
the twenty-five barons appointed to enforce the
observance of Magna Carta. He died of starvation
in the Levant in 1241, leaving a son and heir William,
Sheriff of Cumberland, who died in 1256. (fn. 27) His son
Thomas died unmarried before 1269, when his sister
and heir Aveline married Edmund, the king's son.
Aveline died childless in
1274, (fn. 28) and all her lands were
seized by her brother-in-law
Edward I.
Forz. Gules a cross paty vair.
Thornton Hall: Garden Front
In 1275 Philip de Wivelsby
or Wivelby petitioned for
various manors in Holderness
and the manor of Thornton
in Pickering Lythe, saying
that the title passed to Alice
daughter of Hawise, and, she
having left no issue, to Ingram
brother of William le Gros,
who had died childless, then
to Simon his brother, then to his daughter Amy,
from Amy to her son John, from John to his brother
William, then to William's son Reginald, who died
childless, and then to himself as brother and heir. (fn. 29)
Philip's case came up again in the following year, (fn. 30)
but the result is not recorded. The second claimant
was John de Eston (Ashton, Eshton), who claimed
descent from the putative Amice, said to be mother
of Constance, mother of Ranulph, father of John his
father. (fn. 31) The four sisters and co-heirs of Peter de
Brus and one John de Sunningham were also
claimants, (fn. 32) and in 1304, 1307 and 1315 the families of Multon and Lucy petitioned for the lands
of the Romillys, pleading their descents. (fn. 33) To John
de Eston the king in 1278 gave the manor of
Thornton and the homage and services of the four
knights' fees belonging to the manor (worth £67) (fn. 34)
and other lands in Craven to make up £100 in lands
which the king granted him for a quitclaim of his
right in the earldom of Albemarle and all Aveline's
lands in England and Normandy. (fn. 35) This grant seems
to have been made merely for the purpose of excluding Wivelby and other claimants. (fn. 36)
As for John de Eston, his ancestor Avis, through
whom he claimed, was daughter of William le Gros
by a nun and therefore illegitimate. (fn. 37) The manor
was still held of the honour of Albemarle in 1608. (fn. 38)
In 1294 John de Eston had licence to grant the
manor of Thornton to Roger le Bigod Earl of
Norfolk, (fn. 39) who, having obtained leave in 1302 to
alienate it at will, (fn. 40) enfeoffed William de Ormsby. (fn. 41)
William de Ormsby in 1304 conveyed it to John de
Drokensford, clerk, (fn. 42) evidently as trustee for the
Latimers. William le Latimer, junior, bought a
messuage and 6 oxgangs of land here in 1318, (fn. 43) and
in 1325 entailed the manor (fn. 44)
with that of his chief seat of
Danby. It descended with
Danby (q.v.) until 1577, (fn. 45)
when Sir John Nevill Lord
Latimer died seised, leaving
daughters and co-heirs, (fn. 46) of
whom Lucy wife of Sir William
Cornwallis had Thornton. (fn. 47)
She died in 1608, leaving four
daughters, Frances wife of
Sir Edmund Withipole, Elizabeth wife of Sir William
Sandes, Cornelia wife of Sir
Richard Fermer, and Ann wife
of Archibald Earl of Argyll. (fn. 48)
They all made a settlement
in 1610, (fn. 49) and in 1619–21
the manor belonged to Sir
William Sandes, (fn. 50) who with
Elizabeth (fn. 51) conveyed it in
1625 to Henry Lord Danvers,
Sir John Danvers and Sir
Anthony Mayne. (fn. 52) In 1669 Henry Marquess of
Dorchester, Sir Geoffrey Palmer, bart., AttorneyGeneral, Sir John Mayne and John Penrice, evidently
trustees, conveyed the manor to John Hill, (fn. 53) in whose
family it has ever since remained. John Hill in
1739–40 and 1744 appointed a gamekeeper for his
manor or manors of Thornton and Farmanby. (fn. 54)
Richard Johnson Hill of Thornton Hall died in
1793, his son Richard in 1855. Richard's son, the
Rev. John Richard Hill, was in 1897 succeeded by
his son Richard, who was in 1906 followed in his
turn by his son Capt. Richard Hill, J.P., (fn. 55) the present owner.
John de Eston in 1284–5 held his three weeks
court, formerly held by the Earls of Albemarle, and
took amendment of the assize of bread and ale. (fn. 56) In
1281 he was granted a weekly market on Tuesday
and two yearly fairs on the vigil, feast and morrow
of Holy Trinity and All Saints. (fn. 57)
Robert de Brus, after the drawing up of Domesday
Book, was enfeoffed of Danby (q.v.), Skelton and
other lands, among which were 11 oxgangs in Thornton. (fn. 58) The heirs of Peter de Brus III and last (fn. 59)
were, however, mesne lords in 1284–5 of 3 carucates
of land (fn. 60) here forming the fourth part of a knight's
fee that was held directly of the king in 1428. (fn. 61)
Under the Brus heiresses in 1284–5 William Percy
of Kildale was enfeoffed, and under him 'the heir of
Robert Mangevilein' (fn. 62) ; in 1428 'the heir of Thomas
Wandesford' held these 3 carucates. (fn. 63)
These lands seem to have escheated to the lord of
Pickering, for Richard Eglesfield was distrained by the
king to do homage for 3 carucates of land in Thornton
in 1441–2. (fn. 64) There were still Eglesfields of Farmanby
in 1612, (fn. 65) but Sir Henry Thwayts, kt., died seised of
a manor of Thornton in 1520, leaving two infant
daughters Frances and Katharine. (fn. 66) John Gresham
and Frances his wife were seised by right of Frances
in 1546, (fn. 67) and with their receiver Stephen Holford (fn. 68)
in 1555 conveyed the manor to Wilfrid Brand and
John Wharffe. (fn. 69) In 1564 Sir Henry Nevill, kt., and
Elizabeth his wife and Frances Gresham, widow, conveyed it to Roger Hunter, (fn. 70) who died seised of a
capital messuage and tenements in Thornton in 1583,
leaving a son and heir Robert and grandson of the
same name. (fn. 71) A Robert Hunter held 540 acres here
of the honour of Pickering at a rent in 1619–21. (fn. 72)
He or another of his name died in about 1652 and
was succeeded by his son Bethell Hunter, who died
some three years later. (fn. 73) His son and heir Christopher
Hunter of Thornton was aged nineteen in 1665. (fn. 74)
Roger Mowbray was mesne lord of another 3 carucates in 1284–5 and 1302–3. (fn. 75) This mesne lordship
is confused with the Percy lands in 1428 (fn. 76) and is
not again mentioned. William de Wyvill held the
3 carucates under Roger in 1284–5 and 1301–2. In
1278–9 he had claimed two messuages and 40 oxgangs
of land against the Abbot of Rievaulx, stating that
William his ancestor was seised in the reign of
Henry II, and left a son and heir Richard who left
daughters Amphyllis and Eustacia. Amphyllis died
childless, Eustacia left sons Nicholas, Richard, Thomas
and himself, then heir. (fn. 77) The abbot, however, proved
that these tenements belonged to the Waste given
to his house by Henry II. (fn. 78) Under William de Wyvill
in 1284–5 was 'the heir of Roger Moraunt,' perhaps
Acilia Moraunt of whom the Kingthorpes held 8 oxgangs here in 1275. (fn. 79) Maud Lamberd held these
lands in 1428. (fn. 80) Nicholas son of Robert Lambert
died seised of five messuages and 100 acres of land in
February 1543–4. (fn. 81) He left a son Roger, aged three,
but no further history of this holding has been found.
Land in FARMANBY (Farmanesbi, xi cent.) was
soke of the manor of Pickering in 1086 (fn. 82) and
remained a member of the honour of Pickering. (fn. 83)
In 1272 it was in the fee of Nicholas de Hastings,
lord of Allerston, (fn. 84) with which it descended till
1504, (fn. 85) when it was granted by Edward Lord
Hastings to the chapel of St. George in Windsor
Castle to satisfy a bequest in his father's will. (fn. 86)
Except for a break during the Commonwealth (fn. 87) it
remained appurtenant to the chapel until at least
1650. (fn. 88) It was in the hands of the Hills, the present
owners, in 1739, (fn. 89) and is now a member of Captain
Richard Hill's manor of Ellerburn (q.v.).
The Hastings appointed a woodward in Allerston
and Farmanby. (fn. 90)
In 1086 ROXBY (Rozebi, xi cent.; Rouceby,
xii–xiv cent.; Rauceby, xiii cent.; Ruksby, xv cent.;
Rokysby, xvi cent.) was soke of the manor of
Pickering, (fn. 91) and continued to be a member of that
honour. (fn. 92)
The Earl of Norfolk was mesne lord in 1284–5, (fn. 93) but
the mesne tenancy seems to be no further mentioned.
Nicholas de Hastings, lord of Allerston (q.v.) in
1247, granted to his younger son Henry a capital
messuage 'in Hundegate in Thornton in the vill of
Pickering' and 2 oxgangs of land in Roxby in fee
with successive remainders to Edmund and Nicholas,
other younger sons. (fn. 94) By 1284–5 Edmund had
succeeded and held 4 oxgangs here in demesne. (fn. 95)
His house at Roxby is mentioned in 1316, and he
was living in 1334. (fn. 96) There was a succession of
Edmunds in this family until late in the 15th
century. (fn. 97) The Edmund who was lord in 1483
received in this year from Richard III the offices of
steward and master forester of the honour, and in
1485 those of bailiff and riding forester for life, (fn. 98)
these offices having been generally held by members
of his family almost time out of mind. (fn. 99) On his
death, however, Henry VII did not bestow them on
his son Roger. (fn. 100) In 1489 Brian Sandford was made
steward during pleasure, in 1490 Ranulph Sandford
was made bailiff during pleasure, in 1493 Ralph Eure was
appointed riding forester, and
in 1499 Richard Cholmley
received all the great offices
of the honour. (fn. 101) Sir Roger
made accusations of assault
and breach of the forest laws
against Eure and Cholmley;
they replied with a long list
of the misdoings of Hastings,
alleging that he claimed as
forester in fee (fn. 102) to pay no
taxes in Pickering Forest, and
with his household servants
was 'daily riding through the country more like men
of war than men of peace . . . through the King's
markets and towns . . . with bows bent and arrows
in their hands.' (fn. 103) He died in 1513, leaving a son
and heir Francis, (fn. 104) who in 1520 conveyed the manors
of Roxby and Kingthorpe to Sir Robert Constable
of Flamborough (father-in-law of Roger Cholmley), (fn. 105)
and others, (fn. 106) probably trustees for Roger Cholmley.
Roger was described as 'of Roxby' in 1522. (fn. 107) He
was knighted at Flodden (fn. 108) and died in 1538. (fn. 109) He
was succeeded by his son Richard, who purchased
the Whitby Abbey estates. Richard Cholmley, 'the
great black Knight of the North,' was knighted in
1551 at Musselburgh Field. (fn. 110) He lived chiefly at
Roxby 'in great port' (fn. 111) until his death in 1583. (fn. 112)
This manor followed the descent of the family lands
at Whitby, coming in 1616 into the hands of
Sir Richard Cholmley, who with his eldest son Hugh
sold Roxby towards the payment of his debts. (fn. 113)
Sir John Danvers, heir of the Latimers, (fn. 114) held the
lands in 1651, (fn. 115) and they are now in the possession
of Captain Richard Hill. (fn. 116)
Cholmley. Gules a sheaf or with two steel helms in the chief.
Church
The church of ALL SAINTS consists
of a chancel 41 ft. 3 in. by 21 ft. 6 in.,
with north vestry, nave 42 ft. by 18 ft.
4 in., with north and south aisles making a total
width of 37 ft., south porch and west tower. The
total length of the church is 95 ft. 6 in., all the
measurements being internal.
Early in the 14th century the church appears to
have been entirely rebuilt, beginning with the chancel,
and working westwards, the nave aisles and the tower
being the latest in point of date. The church has
suffered much from modern restoration, the chancel
being largely rebuilt and the nave windows renewed.
The north vestry and south porch are also modern.
The chancel is mostly modern 14th-century Gothic
with a three-light east window and one three-light
and two double-light windows in the south wall. On
this side is an ancient piscina, but the triple sedilia,
with the exception of the heads to the hood, are
modern restorations. Further west is a much repaired
low-side window. The chancel arch, also much
restored, is apparently of early 15th-century date.
The quire is more lofty than the nave, the roof being
finished at either end with a stone gable. Adjoining
on the north side is a modern vestry.
The nave is separated from the aisles by arcades of
four bays dating from the 14th century. The arches
are pointed and spring from clustered piers, each pier
consisting of four large shafts filleted on the outer
edge and four smaller circular shafts between them
and dying into the moulded bell capitals of the main
shafts. The capitals have octagonal top members and
the bases are moulded. The north aisle has two
windows on the north, each of two lights, with modern
tracery, and a north door. The south aisle has a
piscina at the east end of the south wall and three
square-headed two-light windows, all with modern
tracery, on the same side. Between the second and
third is the south door covered by a gabled modern
porch with a pointed outer arch.
The square west tower dates from the end of the
14th century and is entered by a pointed tower arch
of the same date. It is three stages high with
diagonal buttresses of four offsets at the western
angles, rising only to the top of the first stage. The
bell-chamber is lighted by a tall pointed window of
two lights in each face, with transoms cusped below
and traceried heads. The moulded external label
is carried round as a string-course. The tower is
finished with an embattled parapet with crocketed
pinnacles rising at the angles and in the centre of
each side. Within are the squinches for a stone
spire which was never proceeded with. It contains
three bells, the tenor cast by E. Seller and inscribed
'Gloria in excelsis deo 1710,' the second by T. Seller
of York, inscribed 'Soli deo gloria 1758,' and the
third 'S.S. Ebor 1663 Jesus be our speed.'
The church is finished externally in ashlar and has
slate roofs. The font under the tower has a circular
bowl of the 12th or 13th century, but scraped and
on a modern base. In the nave is a 17th-century
almsbox.
In the north wall of the quire is a moulded arched
tomb recess with cinquefoil cusping to the soffit and
beneath it the effigy of a lady of circa 1300. Over
the head is a gabled canopy with crockets and pinnacles
and on the slab are six carved shields alternately of
St. Quintin and Conyers with a label. On the north
quire wall is a brass inscription with coat of arms to
John Porter of London (d. 1686).
The plate consists of a cup (York, 1660), the gift
of Roger Hunter of Newstead Grange, who died in
1659, with cover, a paten (York, 1673), the gift of
John Hill, sen., dated 1685, with the maker's initials
IT, a flagon silver plated on copper given by
J. Gilby, LL.D., in 1804, and two patens, both with
the London mark for 1732.
The registers before 1812 are as follows: (i) baptisms and burials 1538 to 1605, marriages 1559 to
1605; (ii) mixed entries 1622 to 1653; (iii) mixed
entries 1653 to 1674; (iv) mixed entries 1675 to
1707; (v) baptisms 1708 to 1768 and marriages
1708 to 1753; (vi) burials 1708 to 1767; (vii)
marriages 1754 to 1810; (viii) baptisms and burials
1768 to 1812; (ix) marriages 1810 to 1812.
Advowson
Thorpe Bassett was said in 1647
to have been the mother church of
Thornton. (fn. 117) The rector of Thorpe
Bassett had a pension of £1 from this church in
1291, (fn. 118) and in 1647 old men said that the parson
of Thornton had paid the parson of Thorpe Bassett
26s. (4 nobles) annually time out of mind, although
they did not know whether the present incumbent
had done so, as he 'was never good paymaster.' (fn. 119)
One part of the advowson was held by the Everleys
and Wandesfords in the 14th century, and may have
descended to them from Stephen Mangevilein, who
quitclaimed to Rievaulx Abbey his right in the adjoining 'Waste' (fn. 120) in the reign of Henry II. Stephen's
great-grandson Robert left daughters and heirs, of
whom the eldest, Alice, married Alan de Everley and
had a son William, (fn. 121) lord of Ugglebarnby. (fn. 122) Robert
de Everley was instituted to the rectory in 1267. (fn. 123)
William held tenements in Roxby and Thornton in
1284–5 (fn. 124) and paid 5s. 9¾d. subsidy in Thornton in
1301–2, (fn. 125) John de Everley was rector in 1335, (fn. 126) and
in 1361 land, rent and a mill in Thornton and the
advowson of the church were settled with the manor
of Ugglebarnby by John Wandesford, Joan his wife
and her heirs, so that the Thornton premises, which
Robert de Mewerose and Margery his wife held for
the life of Margery of the inheritance of Joan, should
remain to Robert Rotherham of Whitby and his
heirs. (fn. 127)
Another part of the advowson was in 1225 conveyed by Nicholas de Yeland and Eustacia his wife, (fn. 128)
by right of Eustacia, to John son of Alan (de Kingthorpe) (fn. 129) the forester in fee. (fn. 130) The Archbishop of
York presented in 1226, on the ground that the
advowson was disputed and came to him by lapse, (fn. 131)
and in 1286 John de Deveningham (or Reveningham) (fn. 132) and Emma his wife, by right of Emma, conveyed half to William de la Chimyneye for the
consideration of one pound of cummin yearly. (fn. 133) In
1461 the king granted to Sir William Hastings and
John Huddleston or either of them the next presentation to the church. (fn. 134) By the beginning of 1548–9
the advowson was in the hands of the Hastings of
Allerston. They conveyed it with their manor of
Allerston to Stephen Holford, (fn. 135) who made a settlement in 1551. (fn. 136) In 1560–1 Henry Earl of Westmorland conveyed the remainder on his own decease
to Sir Richard Cholmley and others. (fn. 137) The Cholmleys
were in possession till 1679. (fn. 138) John Hacker presented
in 1700, John Hill in 1745 and 1768, (fn. 139) and his
descendant Capt. Richard Hill is now patron. The
living is a rectory. (fn. 140) One carucate of land of the
Albemarle fee was glebe of the rectory. (fn. 141)
Charities
The almshouses founded by Viscountess Lumley, by deed 1657, consist of chapel and offices belonging
thereto, and almshouses for twelve inmates, four to be
selected from Thornton, one from Farmanby or Ellerburn, six from Sinnington, and one from Marton and
Little Edston alternately.
By an order dated 19 August 1904, made by the
Charity Commissioners under the Board of Education
Act, 1899, the annual sum of £270 is required to be
paid from the income of Lady Lumley's Grammar
School Foundation at Thornton Dale and Pickering
for the purposes of the almshouses, including repairs,
stipends and allowances of coal to almspeople and
allowances in respect of the chapel and services. (fn. 142)
In 1895 Robert Champley, by will proved at York
15 June, bequeathed £100, the income to be applied
by the incumbent and churchwardens in the distribution of money and coal. The legacy was invested in
£92 14s. consols with the official trustees.
The Hill Memorial Institute was founded by deed,
dated 16 November 1897, in memory of the late
Rev. John Richard Hill. In 1900 the Rev. Edward
William Heslop, by will proved at York 14 March,
bequeathed £100, the income to be applied for the
benefit of the objects of the institute. The legacy
was invested in £80 19s. 11d. India 3½ per cent.
stock with the official trustees.
Township of Farmanby.—The poor of this township receive at Christmas the yearly sum of 10s.
under the name of Anthony Denham's, or Dinom's
dole, out of a farm in Thornton Marshes; also a
yearly sum of 6s. 8d. under the name of Samuel
Skelton's dole out of Carr Field and an adjoining
field called the Ings.