804 



Charity School, &c. On the south side of the 

 church, adjoining the church wall, and at the ter- 

 mination of a line of lofty and beautiful limes, stand 

 the charity school, and school house. The school 

 was endowed in 1808, by the Rev. James Graves, 

 rector of Thorp Basset, with ,10. a year; being 

 the interest at that time of ,200., vested in the na- 

 vy 5 per cents, in the names of the Rev. John Clea- 

 ver, D. D., George Wbrsley, Clerk, Thomas Robson, 

 Kobert Baddison, Elias Inchbald, and their suc- 

 cessors, for the education of 12 poor children of the 

 township of Hovingham. The sum of 20- had 

 been previously left in 1716, by Mrs. Frances 

 Arthington, of Arthington ; the interest of which 

 was to be applied towards educating 4 children of 

 the same township. The present master is Mr. 

 Richard Joy, who is allowed also to educate the 

 other children of the village. 



Additional Charities. There are other charitable 

 bequests, mentioned in the table of benefactions in 

 the church, and amounting collectively to 118, the 

 interest of which is distributed at Christmas, a- 

 mongst the most necessitous of the parishioners. 



The Hall. Hovingham was anciently the seat 

 of the great Roger de Mowbray,* but is now poss- 

 essed by the Worsley family. The late Thomas 



* Rogfer de Mowbray, the founder of Byland Abbey, 

 gave in Hovingham, common of pasture in this forest and 

 territory, and in the woods hereof, with the patronage ef 

 the church in this place, But the church of Hovingham 

 being afterwards appropriated to the abbey of Byland, 

 a stipendiary curate does the duty for .20. per annum. 

 Burton's Monasticon, p. 333 



