APPLEBY MAGNA. 433 About the Year Lgoo
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SPARKENBOE.'] APPLEBY MAGNA. 433 about the year lGoo. The said William bequeathed 1C83. Elizabeth, daughter of Eusabey and Mary Dormor the same to his son the Rev. Thomas Mould, who March 28. 1684. Eusebie, son of Eusebie and Mary Dormer, Sept. 27. was instituted into the said rectory in isilO: he was 1685. John, son of Eusabey and Mary Dormer, Nov. 3, a prebend of Lichfield and Coventry, and chaplain 1686. Rebeckah, daughter of Eusabey and Mary Dormer, to the earl of Huntingdon. The said Thomas be- Jan. 11. queathed the advowson to the Rev. Abraham Mould 1697". Mary, daughter of Clifton and Susanna Harcourt, his son, who was instituted to the said rectory upon April 113. the death of his father, 1642. The said Abraham 1698. Thomas, son of Clifton and Susanna Harcourt, May 15. bequeathed to his son the Rev. Isaac Mould, who To a baptism of Sept. 25th in this year, and to was instituted to the said rectory upon the death of the two succeeding entries, is added the degree or profession of the father respectively ; and subjoined v his father, I6S3. Isaac died 1721, and bequeathed the advowson to his brother Thomas Mould for life, is the king's duty, viz. 2s. to each baptism, and 4*. and then to his brother Joseph; who gave the same to the burial. And from these three entria, exclu- to his brother Daniel, and died 1733. Daniel died sively, to 2d January 1700 inclusively, each entry- 1735 ; and the patronage descended to Elizabeth states not only the additions of the parties, but that (wife of Edward Dawson, esq.), who was Xhe only they, Clifton Harcourt, yeoman, and all of them surviving issue of Anne Wilde, and only grand-child (excepting only Charles Moore, gentleman, buried of the above-mentioned Abraham Mould." June 27, 1700, of whom nothing farther is added), were severally not worth 50/. in land, nor 600I. in In the year 1670 is this memorandum: personal estate. " John Mould the elder, of the oper street in 1699. Bassil, the son of Clifton Harcourt, yeoman, and Su- Great Appleby, was buried under that grave-stonel sanna his wife, not worth 5OZ. in land, nor 600?. in personal estate, July 25. which lyeth in the South-east point or corner of 1702. Sarah, daughter of Clifton (and Susannah) Harcourt, the burying-place in the church-yard in Appleby yeoman, April 14. aforesaid, May 4, 167O; under which stone were 1703. John, son of Clifton (and Susannah) Harcourt, yeo- formerly laid, as this booke relates ; first, John man, April 12. Mould; and Richard Mould, sone of the said 1723. Thomas, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Moore, May 15. John; and John, son of the said Richard; and MARRIAGES. 2 1583. William Dedick, gent. and Sarah Walker, May 30. Thomas Mould, son of the said John . And this 1710. Thomas Farmer of Twycross, and Elizabeth Moore of first-named John Mould was sonne to the said Tho- this parish, with a licence, Feb. 8. mas Mould; which said John yielded his due to 17.1L Richard Farmer of Witherlie, and Rebecca Moore of nature the 2d day of May, and was buried under this parish, with a licence, March 3. 1719. Thomas Moore and Elizabeth White, both of this parish, the said stone the 4th of May, 1670. John, Ri- with a licence, Oct. 6. chard, John, Thomas, and John, all lynially de- BURIALS. scended ; and how many before is not knowne." 1625. Mtis Bridgett Dixey, April 19, being the late wife of Mr. Richard Dixey. BAPTISMS. 1627. Mr. Richard Dixie, Dec. 23. 1572. Thomas Mould, son of William. 1700. Bassill, the son of Clifton Harcourt, yeoman, March 24. William Heave, son of Henry. l 1708. Sarah, daughter of John and Anne Wederstone, July 5. 15S8. Alice Dethick, daughter of William, Sept. 15. 1709. Edward4 Wollverstone, May 13. 1C22. John, son of Mr. Richard Dixie, Jan. 5. 1710. Mrs. Sarah5 Harcourt, March 3. 1653. Frances, daughter of Mr. Usabie Darriior, Jan. 14. 1725. Thomas Moore senior, gent. April 25. 1655. Anne, daughter of Mr. Usabe and Mrs. Susanna In this year the first volume ends; and the only Davmor, May 26. 1657. Eusebie, son of Eusebie'and Susanna Dormer, Dec. 16. other volume, in possession of Mr. Jones the rector, 1GSO. Mary, daughter of Eusebie and Mary Dormer, March 11. does not begin till some time in 1731. The CHURCH (see Plate LXHI.) dedicated to St. Michael, appears (and indeed the On the Communion chalice (supposed to be given whole place, as before said) from every quarter by a schoolmaster of this parish6), which is of silver, " embosom'd in trees." It consists of a body and but not antient: . two spacious ailes covered with lead, and a chancel "Deo covered with tiles. The North aile of the chancel et Ecclesiæ de Appleby is private property, formerly of the Appleby family; proprium fecit now repaired by the governors of the free-school at vir Bosworth, to whom it came, with the Moat-house qui esse bonus quam videri maluit." estate, from the Dixies, founders of the said school. The chancel has three pointed arches, clustered Here is a handsome spire steeple, near 52 yards in columns, ring capitals. height, containing a good peal of six bells, of very The nave rests on five pointed arches, with clus- modern date, and a clock. The building is of stone, tered columns and ring capitals. massy and strong. The spire is hollow to the top. A massive stone-screen divides the nave and From the battlements is a most beautiful prospect chancel. The lower part is open ; the upper part of the circumjacent country, many spires, villages, covered with lath and plaster. &c. Two views of it are given, both taken in 1790, one by Mr. Glover, the other by Mr. The North aile was formerly parted from the Schnebbelie. ; chancel by a row of stone pillars, and a wainscot of t wood, part of which yet remains. On the treble bell: There is now no appearance of any mural seats in " This bell raised by subscription, 1774; the chancel; but there is an old wooden seat, or the 2d gave by Mr. Moore's family, 1769 ; stall, whereon are some small remains of carving. the 3d and 4th re-cast by subscription ; 1 In the South wall a half-quatrefoil piscina; and a the 5 th re-cast by the parish to the old tenor. similar one in the North wall, a parabolic arch of Pack and Chapman, of London, fecit." about two feet in height, and one foot deep in On the tenor: the wall. "I. H. S. Nazarenus, rex The font, towards the West end of the North Judeorum, filii Dei, miserere mei. 1619." aile; about four feet in height, is a plain octangular 1 There is an old stone slab in this place, and some flat stones of the Moulds, of variouS dates within 40 years. 4 This is another branch of the Mould family, different from the patrons of the church, and now living in Appleby. * See in the Pedigree of Browne, vol. III. p. 1029; Seile Register entries, 1692—*: Elizabeth baptized, and Simon buried, children of Clifton Harcourt, gent. And a third, from Tamworth Register: Veere, son of Mr. Clifton Harcoiyt, baptized Dec. 12; buried JanT 13, 1695. 4 (}. Edmund ? One of that name in Orton on the Hill Register, married to Mary Murrhall, Oct. 10, 1682; and Humphry Pipe's journal, of 1709—14, shews that a Mary Woolferstan of Appleby was a widow at Michaelmas 1709. 5 Q. Susan ? See the Pedigree of Browne, note 5, in vol. III. p. 1029. 0 The Rev. Samuel Martin, M. A. formerly rector of Newton in the Thistles j which living he resigned for that of Gotham, in the county of Nottingham." . VOL. IV. P^RT II. 5 S bason.