In the chancel of this Church are two monuments, belonging to the Listers' family, of Eastoft, and to the family of Worsop, of Howden. The inscriptions are as follow. NEAR THIS PLACE LIE THE REMAINS OF LATE OF HOWDEN, IN THE COUNTY OF YORK, ESQ. AND SARAH HIS WIFE, WHO DIED IN THE YEAR 1739, AGED 77 YEARS. BY WHOM HE HAD FOUR SONS AND EXCEPT SARAH, RELICT OF SAMUEL SMITH, OF HULL, MERCHANT, AND RICHARD WORSOP, LIKEWISE OF HOWDEN AFORESAID, ESQ. BY WHOSE DIRECTIONS THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED. On the north wall of the chancel. NEAR THIS PLACE LYES THE BODY OF ELIZABETH LISTER, WIDOW, A PERSON OF EXEMPLARY PIETY AND GOODNESS, THE 10TH DAY OF AUGUST, 1729. REVEREND THOMAS PINDAR, VICAR OF THIS PARISH, OF EASTOFT, GENT. BY WHOM SHE HAD SEVERAL CHILDREN, VIZ: THOMAS, FRANCIS, ABIGAIL. SACRED SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF JOHN HOPKINSON, ESQ. LATE OF Within the Altar rails, on the floor, on the south side. HERE LYETH THE BODY OF MR. WILLIAM HARRIS, VICAR OF THIS CHURCH. JUNE 4, ANNO DOM, 1748, AGED 82. ILLI SATIS LICUIT NUNC VETERUM LIBRIS, NUNC SOMNO, ET INERTIBUS HORIS DUCERE SOLICITE JUCUNDA OBLIVIO VITE. HERE LIES INTERRED YE BODY OF MASTER OF ARTS, AND B.D. IN DIVINITY, AND WITH HIM, IN THIS CHURCH, IS BURIED WHO DIED THE 7TH OF MARCH, 1673, HEIC PIUS ET PRUDENS CONSTANS AC FERVIDUS ORE In In the Churchyard the late Cornelius Empson, of Luddington, has honoured the memory of his wife with the following very singular elogy, by which perhaps he meant to intimate that she was a quiet, modest, and very discreet gentlewoman, taking care to divide her existence into nearly two equal portions, one of which was passed in the single and the other in the married state. HERE LIES FRANCEAS EMPSON, I NEVER HEARD HER SWARE IN ALL MY LIFE. In addition to a silver cup, the gift of George Stovin, this Church possesses a very handsome large silver flagon, standing on four feet, which are cast in the form of lions, and another lion surmounts the hinge by which the lid is lifted up. In the middle of the cover is a medallion gilt, contain ing, on the upper side, an embossed representation of the circumcision, and around the margin the following inscription, "Natus inops Christus ponit præputia lege. Luke 2;" and on the inside of the said medallion, is another similar representation of Our Saviour's baptism, in the river Jordan, by John the Baptist, and the Holy Ghost descending from heaven in the form of a dove. Round the margin is the following inscription, Dum baptizatur fit manifesta Trias, Math. 2." An inscription informs us that this beautiful vessel was the gift of Mrs. Hesther Arthur, of Howden, to the Church of Luddington, to be used at the Communion Service there, 1759. The great tithes of this parish, after the surrender of Selby Abbey, have become the property of several proprietors, out of which several small bequests have been left to the poor, the gift of Messrs. Sherne and Lister, which are paid as follows. On every Good Friday the Collectors or Churchwardens of Luddington are to go to Garthorpe, and there to receive two quarters and one peck of barley or beans, to be paid by such persons as have the tithes of Luddington and Garthorpe, and two shillings in money; the corn to be equally equally divided amongst the poor of Luddington and Garthorpe; and one shilling to the poor widows of Garthorpe. Every person concerned in the tithe is to pay his proportion of corn and money, and to the use above-mentioned, for ever." "Mr. Richard Worsop is to pay eighteen pecks of barley and beans, and eighteen pence. Mr. Lister is to pay twenty-one pecks of barley or beans, and eighteen pence. John Gyliot, of Luddington, he or his heirs, is to pay for his house in Luddington, as it has been time out of mind, and by his copy of court roll, to be paid on every Easter Monday for ever, to the Collectors or Churchwardens of Luddington, six shillings and eight-pence, to be distributed amongst the poor of Luddington on Easter Monday for ever. There is six shillings and eight-pence to be paid out of Eastoft as follows: Mr. Lister, of Eastoft, for his Siledyke close for ever, to be paid on every Easter Monday for ever, to the Churchwardens of Luddington, sixteen pence for the poor of Luddington. Joseph Gathorne, of Eastoft, for his closes for ever, to be paid as above-mentioned, two shillings and six-pence. James Gathorne, his brother, to pay for his land accordingly one shilling and sixpence. Robert Dowson's heirs, for his Siledyke close, is to pay as abovementioned one shilling and four-pence for the poor of Luddington for ever. In addition to these charities, the return made to the House of Commons, in 1784, mentions a rent charge of £2. 10s. left by the will of Mr. Thomas Worsop, and which was paid at that time by Daniel Bayne and Hester Arthur. WATERTON, IS mentioned in Doomsday Book, as having a hall and one carucate of land, the property of Fulcheri; and it is also stated that, at the time of making the survey, it was waste. Together with all the wastes in the soke of Croule, it became, became, soon after the Conquest, the property of the Abbot of Selby; and, between the years 1160 and 1179, when Gilbert was Abbot of that monastery, it was called a vil, and given by him to Reiner, the son of Norman de Normanby, he paying the yearly rent of twelve shillings on the Feast of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary*. What equivalent was given for this grant does not appear; nor has any other notice of this Reiner been found. Waterton remained in this family for many generations, and seems to have been, like High Melwood and High Burnham, what Hunter terins, in his History of the Deanery of Doncaster, "a Gentlehomery, having peculiar privileges and jurisdiction." Like these places, however, it is now degraded into a common farm house. The present owner is Sir John Webb. Reiner took the name of Waterton. This family is equal, if not superior, in a long line of ancestry, to most of the commoners of England: for there is strong reason to suppose that they were of Saxon origin. It appears, in the survey made by the Conqueror, in 1086, that one Liyulf held lands in Normanebi, in the North Riding of Yorkshire; that Norman had lands in Newuetone; and amongst the clamores, or claims, noticed in the same survey, it is stated, that Norman de Andreci claimed three oxgangs of land in Normanbi. These persons were all of Saxon descent; and there is strong presumption to believe, from Gilbert's deed, before alluded to, and which is stated to be transcribed from the original, in the possession of Edward Plumptom, of Plumpton, in the county of York, that the family of Waterton is descended from one of them. Between the date of Doomsday Book and this deed, one generation must have passed away; it is, therefore, more than probable that Reiner, the son of Norman de Normanbi, was the grandson of the person alluded to in the survey. This Reiner had three sons and a daughter, of whom also nothing is known; for it appears, from another deed, dated the 12th of Edward the Firstt, 1284, that William, son and heir of Reiner de Waterton, granted to Simon, son of Thomas de Kynton, of Wyton, who had married his sister Agnes, a piece of land and meadow, called the Morefield of Waterton, and also several other pieces of land between Amcotts and Water ton, *Harleian MSS. No. 381, folio 171. † Harleian MSS. 381. |