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At the east end of the chancel are two other mo- 

 numents, one to the memory of the Rev. John 

 Clarke, M. A., and the other to the Rev. Dr. Tho- 

 mas. The former informs us that near it are depo- 

 sited the remains of the Rev. John Clarke,* M. A. 

 formerly fellow of Trinity-college, in the university 

 of Cambridge ; and successively master of the free 

 grammar schools of Shipton, Beverley, and Wake- 

 field, in this county. He was born in this village, 

 May 3d, 1706, and died February 8th, 1761. To 

 this is added a high encomium on his character, and 

 we are told that this monument was raised to his 

 memory by his pupils, as a token of their affection 

 for him. The other monument records the memory 

 of John Deere Thomas, D. D , rector of this parish, 

 who died Jan. 1819, aged 84 years ; and of Mar- 

 garet, his wife, who died Oct. 6th, 1809, aged 75. 



The Jiving is a rectory, in the gift of Charles 

 Duncombe, Esq. j and the church is dedicated to 

 St. Lawrence. 



All the information I can collect relative to the 

 succession of vicars, refers to those who succeed- 

 ed Dr. Conyers ; who removed from this living to 

 Helmsley, about the year 1746. The Rev. Thomas 

 Cumber was hia successor ; he was succeeded by 



* The life of this eminent man has been given to the 

 public by the late Dr. Gouch ; under the title of The 

 Good School-master. He was the son of a mechanic, 

 who was extremely wishful to give him a liberal educa- 

 tion ; the rector of the parish, discovering something 

 superior in him, placed him in the school at Thornton; 

 and afterwards obtained a small exhibition to assist him, 

 at the university. He died at Scarborough, at the house 

 of his brother, Mr, Francis Clarke. 



