THORNTON. 323 



B. D:, bu- 7 

 S" 



1699 Thomas Mason, B. , - 1749 



ried at Thornton 



1742.. probably John Samuel Hill,} 



D. D., (and Oswald Lang- v 1757. 

 with, curate) \ 



1757.. .... ..Oswald Langwith, buried) ,-,-_ 



at York, January 25th.... * 



1768 John Ward .*... 1784. 



1784 John Hill Webb, A. M. present rector.' 



The Thornton registers commence as early as 1539 

 the year after the act was passed for keeping parish 

 registers, and appear to have been correctly kept ; 

 but the register of the first hundred years are 

 scarcely legible from the peculiarity of the writing, 

 and the delapidated state of some of the leaves. 



Grammar School and Hospitals, In the year 

 1656, lady Elizabeth viscountess Lumley, by a deed 

 bearing date the 8th of October j directed Sir 

 Thomas Mayne, Knt., and John Penrice, Esq. the 

 executors of her will, to dispose of her manors and 

 lordships of Sinnington, Thornton, Marton,Edstone, 

 &c ; and with the funds arising therefrom, amongst 

 other charitable bequests, to erect and build a 

 grammar school, and hospitals, at Sinnington, or 

 Thornton. 



The grammar school she endowed with 30. per 

 ann, ; 10 acres of land and a house for a master, 

 (who was to be <c in holy orders") to teach the 

 school and read prayers in the chapel. The pre- 

 sent endowment in consequence of the increased 

 funds of the charity, is about 100, per annum. ; 

 consisting of 10 acres of land in the parish of Thorn- 

 ton, and 2 acres in the parish of JEllerburne, with 



