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clergyman and churchwarden, amongst the most ne- 

 cessitous of the parishioners. This 100, and the 

 40 left by David Bedford to the school, are put 

 out at interest by the churchwarden : the other 

 charitable bequests are paid by Sir H. B, Graham, 

 Bart. 



OLD HALL. 



At the east end of the village, near the bridge, 

 stands the ancient hall, or mansion, once the seat of 

 Lord Viscount Preston, at a more recent date of 

 Lord Widdrington, and now the property of Sir R. 

 B. Graham. 



From an old map and plan of the estate, taken in 

 1630, and now in the possession of Edward Cleaver, 

 Esq., it appears that the estate at that time belong- 

 ed to John Hollowaie, Esquire ;* and that the Nor- 



* Previous to John Hollowaie, Esq., the family of 

 the Hickes's were lords of the manor of Nunnington, as 

 appeals from the pedigrees of that family inserted in 

 Thoresby's Ducatus Leodicensis, p. 136. John Hickes, 

 who was lord of the manor of Nunniugton, about the 



year 1580, had two sons, Hickes, who went to 



reside at Ness, near Nunnington, and Uobert Hickes, 

 who remained at Nunnington. 



Ness Branch of the MicJces. 



Hickes, of Ness, had t\vo sous. Ralph and Wil- 

 liam. Ralph continued at Ness; -but William who 

 married Elizabeth Key, of Topcliffe, took the large 

 farm of Moorhouse, in the village of Newsham, in the 

 parish of Kirby Wiske, near Thirsk ; where was born on, 

 the 20 of June, 1640, the celebrated Dr George Hickes, 

 dean of Worcester in 1679. He was a man of univer- 

 sal learning, deeply read in the primitive fathers of the 

 church, and particularly skilful in the old northern 

 languages, uud antiquities. His chief works a,re,_Lin 



