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The registers pfUhjs church commence with the 

 year 1566.; the marriages occur as .early as the year 

 1539. 



The follow ing is a list of the rectors of Nunning- 

 ton, from the earliest times dpwnwards, as far as 

 can be collected from .the registers : 



"When made ^ Place of Time of 



liector. ;-/ ;' Interment. Burial. 



*.. Jones.. .Nunuington.. Sept. 6th, 1612. 



1612..Audoenus Jones. ..do Jan. 13th, 1641. 



1G41.. Stephen Jones Whitby.... July 29th. 1650. 



1650.. Owen Jones. ...supposed to have > 

 been removed in ^ 



1658. . GulielmusLowcocke.Nunnmgton.May 31, 1678. 

 1678. . Rogerus Store, supposed to have been preferred. 

 1699.. Alex. Dunlop, A. M...Nunnington i June24, 1722. 

 1723. . George Fawcett, A. B... ..do.. . .March 23, 1736. 



1736.. William Kay, A. M do. .....Oct. 7th, 1798. 



1798.. John Kay. do Aug 9th, 1817. 



1817.. William Kearey, rector, & T. A. Browne, curate. 



^ospitals and School. On the left of the road 

 loading to York, and at the extremity of the village 

 green, stand the hospitals and charity school. They 

 were founded in 1678, by Ranald Grahme. Esq.^ 



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the same munificent lord of the manor, who rebuilt 

 the parish church in 1672, and were endowed by 

 him with 20 per aim. " which he settled as a rev- 

 enue for the schoolmaster and poor people of the 

 aid Hospitalls." The hospitals were to contain 

 three poor widows and three poor wjdowers, " or 

 ** any other men or women, aged persons who have 

 not been married," at the choice of the lord of 



