HERMITAGE IN GODELAND. 305 



The market is held on monday. 



At this town there is another evidence of the 

 existence of subterranean rivers in the li UK stone 

 rock, the Cost arises at Keld-head in an aimzitig 

 volume, so as to sanction a conjecture that 500 gal- 

 lons of water are thrown up by it in a minute. 



THE HERMITAGE IN GODELAND, OR 

 GOODLAND. 



The hermitage in Godeland was a cell to Whitby 

 abbey. It was, according to Burton, granted by 

 Henry I. to one Osmond, a priest, and a few bre. 

 thren, who took up their habitation there ; but it 

 was soon after transferred to Wliit'oy ; Osmond and 

 his brethren adopting the rules of St. Benedict, and 

 putting themselves under the care of the abbot. 

 This hermitage, which was called St. Mary's, was 

 endowed by king Henry with one carucate of iaud, 

 to which William Bore added one toft, in Lockton. 

 Mr. Young observes that this hermitage seems to 

 have been little frequented, for some time previous 

 to the dissolution ; a remark that is applicable to 

 hermitages in general ; as the monks of that age 

 preferred the luxuries of the convent to the sweets 

 of retirement. The place of worship, however, was 

 retained as a chapel, and U still in use The origi- 

 nal hermitage was probably nbove a mile N. E. of 

 the present Godeland chapel, at a place called 

 the Abbot's House, belonging to Messrs. Thomas 

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