By the Rev. Canon J. E. Jackson, F.S.A. 



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4 inches wide : the side-walls 7 feet 10 inches high, under a slanting 

 stone roof which is supported in the centre by two pointed arches. 

 Edingdon springs are much visited in summer, partly for water- 

 cresses, partly for the amusement of trying what truth there is in a 

 common saying about two within the monastery garden, viz., that 

 one yields hard and another soft water. 



Vicars. 



In the time of the Rectory Prebend and afterwards of the Monas- 

 tery the Church was served by a Vicar appointed by the Prebendary 

 and by the Rector of the house. The names of some of the Vicars 

 down to 1348 have been given above at page 282. After the Dis- 

 solution, the impropriator of the tithes or his lessee found a clerk 

 to do the duties, who used to be called Perpetual Curate. To the 

 Dukes of Bolton he also acted as chaplain, had £30 a year, a horse 

 and servant found, and table at the house. The preferment was 

 called, or miscalled, a donative. The title of Vicar has been restored. 



The following names occur in old churchwardens' account books 

 from 1575, and from the parish register, which commences 1st 

 August, 1678 :— 



