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mall springs, and cometh to Wath, which giveth it 

 name ; thence to Freighton (Fry ton,) and by Slings- 

 by into Holbeck. 



" Slingsby pays 8s. 8d. a year to the manor." 



Dodsworth's MSS. 



Church. The church at Slingsby is an ancient 

 etructure, formerly attached to Whitby abbey. Bur- 

 ton in his Monasticon informs us, p. 76, that Willi- 

 am Hay, and Robert Chambred, gave to the abbey 

 of Whitby the church at Slingsby, out of which the 

 monks had 'an annual pension of 13s. 4d. which, 

 A. D. 1263, John Thoresby, archbishop of York, 

 confirmed to them. This grant of the church was 

 confirmed to the monks by Masci de Curci, Matilda 

 his wife, and Richard his son." The following 

 monuments and armorial bearings were observed 

 by Roger Dods worth, when he visited this church, 

 July 1st, 1619 : 



" Honor et amor. 



" Pray for the soul of Sir John Stone, parson of 

 " this church, and chapleyne to the Earl of North- 

 " umberland, anno 1608. 



" Virtus, justitia. 



" There is in the choir a monument cross-legged 

 of one of the Wyvills : at his feet a talbot coursing : 



no inscription, a shield on his arm, S^rtanda 



depicted : the colours hard to see. There is in 

 the west window party pale arg: on and three 

 escallop with quarterly or and gules, on the first 

 quarter a raven arg : On the steeple engraven on 

 stone, a manche.*" 



* The French word for a sleeve, but English Heralds 



