231 OSWALDKIRK. 



these additions having been made at different pe- 

 riods, it does not present any uniform or well con- 

 nected plan ; though the front is handsome. The 

 college is governed by a superior, who, according to 

 the regulations of the college, is removed every four 

 years, arid six assistant teachers, who instruct the 

 young gentlemen, whose average number may be 

 about 40, in the Classics, Mathematics, and other 

 branches of a liberal education. 



The present superior is the Rev. Thomas Bur- 

 gess ; of whom report speaks favourably, as well as 

 the general superintendanceand management of the 

 college, and the classical attainments of the pupils. 



In March, 1808, the Rev. Robert Nixon, B. D. 

 F. A. s. presented a drawing of an urn, to the An- 

 tiquarian Society, found in a barrow here, formed 

 by a circle of large stones, about ten feet in diameter ; 

 the urn was at the depth of between three and four 



feet, near the centre of the barrow. 



Archaeologia, 



SLINGSBY. 



Slingsby,* in the wapentake of Ryedale, 7 miles 



* At the conquest, Slingsby formed a part of the im- 

 mense possessions assigned to the Earl of Morton, by 

 William the Conqueror. In the Domesday survey it is 

 thus mentioned : 



*' In Selungesbi (Slingsby,) fourteen carucatesof land 

 <l to be taxed. Land to seven ploughs. Two Thane 

 ft held this for tvo :nanors. There is a priest there at 

 <c present, with eighteen villanes having ten ploughs, and 

 " twenty acres of meadow. It has been valued at seven-. 

 * c ty shillings, now thirty shillings." 



Bawdwen's Domesday. I. p. 73 ; 



