nai Saxon building consisted of a nave, north aisle, and chancel; that the tower and south door-way were afterwards built by the Abbots of Selby, when they rebuilt the south wall. A vicarage was endowed in this Church as early as the year 1288, as it is mentioned in Pope Nicholas' valuation. And in the Valor Ecclesiasticus of Henry the Eighth, the entry concerning the vicarage is as follows. Dns. Thomas Holgyll, vicar, idm. ulta, x. ps. p. x. c. et sinod, xiii. x. xxix. The dum." There is also another for reading the gospel, to the north, in the same place, by the deacon, attended by the sub-deacon, who holds the book: as also by two clerks bearing candles, with a third, having the thuribulum. As it would be impossible for so many to perform their duty with propriety, circumscribed in the narrow limits of the present pulpit, it is natural, to conclude that the pulpit and the rood loft were one and the same place, particularly as the rood loft was placed immediately over the screen, as is manifest from the will of Henry the Sixth. From this place the sermon was delivered, the curate being obliged to preach four times in the year, by an ecclesiastical constitution of Archbishop Peckham, in which this injunction is worth remarking,-" Exponat populo vulgariter absque cujuslibet subtilitalis textura fantastica." Antiquities of Churches. The sepulchral memorials in this Church are as follows. Mary Johnson, wife of Thos. Johnson, jun. died in 1831. Also T. B. Johnson, son of John Johnson, died in 1813. IN MEMORY OF THOMAS JOHNSON, WHO DIED IN 1796. SARAH JOHNSON, DIED IN 1826. THOS. JOHNSON, DIED IN 1814. SONS OF THE ABOVE THOMAS JOHNSON. In memory of William Johnson, who departed this life the 8th day of June, 1813, aged 79 years. Also Sarah Johnson, wife of the above, who departed this life the 30th day of July, 1826, aged 84 years. In memory of Thomas Johnson, who departed this life the sixth day of March, 1796, aged 66 years. Also Thomas Johnson, son of the above, who departed this life the 8th day of July, 1814, aged 52 years. Also Thomas, son to the late Thomas Johnson above named, who departed this life the 27th day of September, 1809, aged 13 years. SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF JOHN JOHNSON, Esq. LATE OF SANDTOFT GROVE, WHO DIED ON THE 18TH OF JUNE, A. D. 1808, AGED 53 YEARS. ALSO ALSO TO THE MEMORY OF ONLY SON OF THE ABOVE- WHO DIED ON THE 6TH DAY OF APRIL, AGED 33 YEARS. TO PERPETUATE THE MEMORY WHO DIED REGRETTED BY HIS RELATIVES AND FRIENDS, AND OF THOMAS PEACOCK, SON OF THOMAS AND SARAH PEACOCK, AGED 8 YEARS. THIS TABLET IS ERECTED AS A TRIBUTE OF AFFECTION, BY HIS SURVIVING WIDOW. NEAR THIS PLACE LIES THE BODY OF THOMAS LESTER, OF EASTOFT, ESQ. WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 26TH DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1729, IN THE 32ND YEAR OF HIS AGE. WHO WHO WAS ONE OF THE BEST AS ALSO TWO YOUNG CHILDREN, VIZ.— Here lieth the body of Ann, daughter of William and Sarah Johnson, who departed this life the 9th day of July, 1785, aged 9 years. Here lies the body of William Johnson, who departed this life April the 22nd, Anno Dom. 1725, aged 66 years. Here lies the body of John, the son of William Johnson, who departed this life February the 29th, Anno. Dom. 1731, aged 43 years. Here lies the body of Catherine Johnson, who departed this life July 23rd, 1723, aged 58. Here lies the body of Thomas Johnson, sen. who departed this life, December the 16th, 1771, in the 75th year of his age. Here also lieth Betty, the daughter of William and Sarah Johnson, who died February the 21st, 1772, aged 2 years. Here lies the body of Jane Johnson, who departed this life the 18th of September, 1795, aged 58 years. Here Here lies, in the grave of his dear wife formerly deceased, the body of Solomon Ashbourn, M. A. late vicar and patron of this vicarage, who died the 18th of January, in the year of our Lord's Incarnation, 1711, and of his own age 67. And after his many years labours for the lasting happiness of the whole parish, he being dead, yet speaketh to such parishioners as are still under strong delusion and wickedness, |