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Mr. Hay's land lay. Perhaps he had other land, but at any 

 rate he had a normal peasant holding of 30 acres in Aistangarthes, 

 a remarkable district partly in Ingleby and partly in Little 

 Broughton. The name survives in " Hasty Garth," afield name 

 on the farm occupied by Mr. John Seaton, and in some adjoining 

 field-names it has been further corrupted into " Hayle Garths." 

 In memory of his pious ancestors, and in the hope, and with the 

 prayer that the gift may bring a blessing upon himself, he dedi- 

 cates to "God and the Church of St. Andrew of Ingleby" a 

 portion of his worldly possessions, to be their heritage for ever. 

 Carefully note that he does not leave it to the Church of England 

 as a corporation, for the Church of England is not a corporation 

 for property-holding. Each incumbent is a " Corporation Sole" 

 in whom is vested God's property. So Stephen Hay leaves his 

 land to " God, and the Church of St. Andrew of Ingleby," the 

 very identical Church of St. Andrew in which we worship every 

 Sunday (though some portions of it have been rebuilt since then) 

 which at that date, 740 years ago or a little more, had then been 

 newly built or re-built, for the services of that same identical 

 Church of England to which we ourselves are so truly proud to 

 belong. 



Rainfall in 1896. — The fall of rain at the Vicarage during 

 1896, amounted to 32-93 inches. One inch is equal to about 100 

 tons per acre, so that the entire fall was equal to about 3,293 tons 

 per acre. And as the parish contains 7,002 acres the entire fall 

 upon the parish would be about 23 millions of tons, giving about 

 46,000 tons, or over 10 millions of gallons to each inhabitant. 

 And yet we are talking about a deficient water supply ! In the 

 first six months the fall was exactly eight inches, or less than a 

 quarter of the whole. The average fall at the Vicarage for the 

 last 13 years has been 31-14 inches, so that in spite of the dryness 

 in the early part of the year the fall of 1896 has been more than 

 an inch above the average. In 1895 it was nearly the same, 

 namely 32-64 inches. We had last year 201 wet days, the average 

 number being 193. The monthly falls of rain were as follow : — 



December. 1897. St. Chad.— As the parish of Ingleby joined 

 the old parish of Lastingham, which, (if our information be 



