28 FRANCIS ORPEN MORRIS 



The internal arrangements of the church were 

 completely changed. A new roof was given to the 

 nave, the unsightly pews were altered, a new organ 

 placed at the west end of the church, and the old 

 singing-gallery swept away. The belfry arch was 

 opened out, which had previously been bricked 

 up, and a number of minor alterations were made 

 in and about the church. Kneeling during the 

 service seems to have been a practice unknown at 

 Nafferton previously to this time, while other "uses" 

 prevailed which it was found desirable to discon- 

 tinue. For instance, some of the notices in church, 

 as well as the psalms, were given out by the clerk, 

 and at funerals it was customary to meet the pro- 

 cession at the church door instead of at the entrance 

 to the churchyard. 



Old customs of various kinds survived in the 

 village ; " riding the stang," as it was called, was 

 the salutary corrective for such as ill-treated their 

 wives, while a period of fixture in the stocks and 

 incarceration in a dismal hovel near the church- 

 yard, fittingly called the "black hole," were stand- 

 ing warnings to drunkards and other offenders 

 against decent behaviour. The material well-being 

 of the people was not lost sight of. Progress was 

 made towards under-draining the village, while Mr. 

 Morris was instrumental in having improvements 

 effected in many of the dwellings of the poor. The 

 glebe land, or a portion of it, was let out in a 

 considerable number of allotments, and additional 

 glebe land adjoining the Vicarage was purchased. 



