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the vicissitudes through which it has passed. The date of its 
erection is uncertain, but it is of very great age. At the foot of 
the cross stand the stone posts to which the stocks used to be 
fixed. 
The old Grammar School was probably built by the Rev. 
James Carr, in 1512, and forty years afterwards King 
Edward VI., at the request of John Nowell, Vicar of Giggles- 
wick, who was one of the King’s chaplains, endowed the school 
and gave it its name of ‘‘ Royal Free Grammar School.” At 
that time the salary of the head master was fixed at £13 6s. 8d., 
and of the usher at £6 13s. 4d. This old building was pulled 
down about a hundred years since, and in its place the second 
Grammar School was built. There is a small museum attached 
to the school. 
Mr. Brayshaw gave much valuable information about Settle 
which we have not space to insert here. He shewed a curious 
old engraving of the sun-dial at Settle, dated 1778. Tradition 
says that the side of Castleberg once formed the face of a huge 
natural sun-dial, and that the shadow of the rock, moving across 
the slope, was marked off at intervals by large slabs which 
indicated the time. In 1750, Dr. Pococke, Bishop of Ossory, 
saw the sun-dial and described it as ‘‘a high rocky hill, on the 
lower part of which four stones being placed, they serve as a 
sun-dial to the country for three or four miles southward, as they 
know what hour of the morn it is when the shadow comes to 
them from nine to twelve.” On this subject Mr. H. Ecroyd 
Smith, in his “ Illustrations of Old Yorkshire,’ writes :—‘ Yet 
upon strict enquiry we find the very tradition of this unique 
structure to have become lost to the memory of the oldest inhab- 
itants. The Rev. Dean Howson, who was educated at the 
neighbouring Giggleswick Grammar School, informs us, however, 
that he remembers old people who had heard of, if they had not 
seen it. Apparently large slabs of limestone, engraved with 
letters to indicate the hours from 8 to 12, have been inserted in 
