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A VANISHING YORKSHIRE VILLAGE. 
Specimen of dated Memorial Tablet in Hull Museum. 
Holy-water Stoup.—At Crown and Anchor in Kilnsea. 
Old dated (1760) Tombstone.—At Crown and Anchor in Kilnsea. 
The Stone Font, the Church Safe, the Registers, the Bible, old 
Service-book.—These are all preserved at Kilnsea. 
The Silver Chalice, dated 1717, in the keeping of the Vicar of 
Easington, who is also custodian of the much more beautiful 
Chalice of Easington Church itself which bears the date 1571. 
This relic was lost sight of for many years, eventually coming 
to light on the mantle-piece of a certain farm-house, and 
actually in use as a tobacco jar. 
Lastly—The Church-door Key, formerly in the possession of 
Mr. Philip W. Loten, of Easington, now in the York 
Museum. (Plate III ., Fig. a.) 
About the middle of last century, the only remaining evidences 
of Kilnsea Church were two great stones standing upright only a 
few yards apart, and I have it on good authority that a certain 
ship driven shorewards during a gale actually sailed between the 
stones, and their width apart proving inadequate, she stuck there 
and eventually went to pieces. Little did the old church builders 
expect such a strange eventuality. 
“ It is recorded that to a poor hermit, named Richard Reed- 
barrow, mariners are indebted for a lighthouse at Spurn.” 
He had doubtless witnessed sailing vessels being destroyed in 
attempting to make for the Humber on stormy nights, aud he 
commenced to erect a tower or beacon. But he had not the 
means to complete the edifice that was to be a guide by day and 
night to mariners who had to navigate the Humber. This must 
have been so far back as the year 1471, for we find that a hermit 
of the name of Danthorpe had built a hermitage at Ravenspurne, 
at which spot Edward IV. landed and found Reedbarrow, who 
evidently succeeded Danthorpe. 
So Reedbarrow being a Yorkshireman, and in consequence of a 
determined character, petitioned Parliament for assistance in 
erecting his tower. He was successful, and letters patent were 
issued empowering the Mayor of Hull, for the time being—John 
Tutbury—and others to proceed with the construction and com¬ 
pletion of the said tower. 
“In the year 1676, a patent was granted by King Charles II. to 
Justinian Angell, of London, merchant, enabling him to continue, 
renew, and maintain certain lights that he had erected upon the 
