106 ANCIENT HISTORY OF KIRKBY-MOORSIDB. 



Tn an old Register book belonging to the parish, 

 is simply recorded the burial of this once illustri- 

 ous personage; of which the following is a literal 

 Copy ; 



Burials/ 



1687. April 17th, Gorges viluas, Lord dooke of 

 bookingarn. 



This entry was intended to record the burial of 

 the Duke of Buckingham, though he was not en- 

 tombed here, but in London, in the family vault in 

 Westminster Abbey.* See Aikin's Biog. Diet. 



Places of Worship. 



The Church, t is a neat and commodious build- 



* From the entry in the Church Register, recording 

 the burial of the Duke of Buckingham, some have doubt- 

 ed the truth of the assertion of Dr. Aikin, of his having 

 been interred in Westminster Abbey. This doubt 

 however will be removed, by consulting Lord Ar- 

 ran's Letter. It is not likely that the Duke of 

 Buckingham, however reduced in circumstances, would 

 be buried at Kirkby-Moorside, without a monument 

 of some description being raised to his memory. One 

 of the family, in whose possession the house is, in 

 which the Duke died, and has been nearly the whole of 

 the time since his death, informed me a few days since, 

 that he was there laid in state, in the room in which 

 he expired ; and although this is tradition, it is a strong 

 presumptive evidence of his having been buried in a su- 

 perior style. 



f January 1st, 1779, a tempestuous wind blew a sheet 

 of Lead, SOOlb wt.from the top of the Church, over the 

 chancel, and carried it across the church-yard, over a 

 house into a street, the distance of 60 yards. A memo- 

 randum of this singular circumstance was made by 

 William Ellerker 3 the present oYerseer. 



