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n ho died in 1808, ae. 78; and of Elizabeth his wife, 

 who died June 2, 1793, aged 48, and another of Mr. 

 John Dods worth, who died February 28, 1778: &. 

 82; also of Ralph Dodsworth, Esq., alderman of the 

 city of York, who served the office of Mayor in the 

 year 1792, and departed this life, the 9 day of May, 

 1794, aged 62; and Mary the wife of John Dods- 

 worth, who died the 16 July, 1797, in the 102 year 

 of her age. Also Jane Dodsworth, late wife of 

 Ralph Dodsworth, of York, who died March f, 

 1785, aged 53. There is, also, another to the me- 

 mory of Ralph Dodsworth, Esq., of York, who died 

 15 of September, 1799, aged 30. 



On a beam, which crosses the chancel, and be- 

 longs to the roof, is carved A. D. 1633, (the date ? 

 perhaps, when that part of the church was new 

 roofed; and the carved pews in the chancel appear 

 to be of very ancient date. In the east window of 

 the chancel, are a few squares of painted glass ; 

 and at its west-end, on one side, the arms of Henry 

 Danvers, Earl of Danby, who gave the church to 

 the university of Oxford : field gules, chevron, ar- 

 gent, between three mullets of five points pierced ; 

 and the arms of that university on the other. 



About three quarters of a mile north of the church, 

 the Mater, which otherwise would flow down the 

 beck, Iving east of the church-jard; descends into 

 the rock which forms the bed of the beck, a little be- 

 low Holm caldron, and rises at Howkeld head on 

 the south of the road, a mile west of Kirkby-Moor- 

 eide, and a quarter of a mile east of its channel : so 

 that the beck is dry except after heavy rains, when 



