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Henry, for his good service done to the country, 

 made him a knight, and gave him the ransom of 

 all his prisoners. This same Sir William Fother- 

 gill married the daughter and sole heiress of the 

 said Ferdinando Dent ; whose issue came after 

 to be lord of Dent and Sedber, or Sedbury, by the 

 gift of Henry VIII. The blazoning of this coat of 

 arms was a stag's head couped, or, a bordure en- 

 grailed or, field vert. This coat of arms is similar 

 to the arms of the late colonel Fothergill, of Kings- 

 thorpe, near Pickering." 



The church is a large, neat, and commodious 

 building, with a lofty spire : it is dedicated to St. 

 Peter ; and is principally in the gothic or old Eng- 

 lish style, having a chancel, transept, nave, and 

 north and south aisles. The living is a vicarage, 

 in the patronage of the dean of York, of which the 

 Rev. John Ponsonby is the incumbent. In this 

 building is a neat finger-organ. In the south wall 

 of the chancel are three stalls arched over, the ar- 

 ches of which are embossed with heads and orna- 

 mented with figures. In the same wall is a piscina, 

 and near the door of the south entrance is a stone 

 bason, a common appendage to ancient churches ; 

 and its existence in this edifice fixes its date prior 

 to the reformation. In the north aisle is the tomb 

 of Sir William Bruce,* as before described. IB the 



* According to the account of Camden, there was a 

 chantry on the north side of the body of the church, 

 bearing his name ; of which he in the thirteenth century 

 was the founder. North aisles were often chantry 

 chapels founded by persons of substance residing in the 

 parishes, who endowed them with houses and land for 



