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JOHN, THE SECOND SON, DIED OCT. 21, 1781,^2. 17. 



WILLIAM JOHN SHEPHERD, THE SON OF WILLIAM 



SHEPHERD OF DOWTHWAITE DALE, ESQ., AND 



MARY HIS WIFE, AND GRANDSON, OF THE 

 ABOVE NAMED RICHARD AND ANN SHEPHERD, 



DIED IN HIS INFANCY, MAY. 21, 1812: 



ALSO JOHN, BROTHER OF THE ABOVE NAMED 



WILLIAM JOHN SHEPHERD, DIED IN HIS INFANCY, 



AUG. 13, 1820. 



Bennet and Fllntoff Sculpt. York. 

 On a beam which crosses the west end 'of the 

 chancel, near the roof, is a shield of arms, party 

 per cross, argent, field gules, the charge is almost 

 defaced, hut I think it is a flower de lis argent. 



By the friendly assistance of the Rev. Henry 



Kendall, curate, who searched the church register, 



I am enabled to give the following list of vicars, 



with the time of their institution, and of their death : 



Leo. Conyers. . instituted. . 1638. . died . . 1663. 



Thomas Flathers..., 1663 1695, 



John Robinson 1695 1709. 



Luke Smelt 1709 1771. 



William Elles, M. A 1771 1788. 



Joseph Whiteley,M.A 1788 1815. 



William Nicholas Darnell, B. D.J the present vicar, 



entered en the living in 1815. 



Beneath the chancel, and a part of the nave of 

 the church, is a crypt ;* a place in which relics were 



* The crypt, cell, or vault, in which in times of su- 

 perstitious veneration, were deposited the relics of those 

 who had acquired the awe of the credulous. In those 

 times the bodies, or cloaths of saints, or martyrs, and 

 the instruments, by which they were put to death were 



