The history of the castle, town, and forest of Knaresbrough, with Harrogate, and it's medicinal waters : including an account of the most remarkable places in the neighbourhood / by E. Hargrove.

  • Ely Hargrove
Date:
1821
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The history of the castle, town, and forest of Knaresbrough, with Harrogate, and it's medicinal waters : including an account of the most remarkable places in the neighbourhood / by E. Hargrove. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Height of the roof 35 Height of the steeple - -- -- -- -- -- -- 75 PARISH REGISTER, Be6ins with the year 1561, in which year, there were 41 baptisms, 12 marriages, and 21 burials. Two hundred years after, viz., 1761, Ihere were 119 bap- tisms, 50 marriages, and 65 burials: and, in the year 1807, 156 baptisms, 63 marriages, and 129 burials* In the year ] 645, soon after the surrender of Knares- brough, to the forces of the parliament, I find the following note: “ Matthew Booth was admitted into the vicarage “ of Knaresbrough, and elected minister, by the re- “ signation of Mr. Roger Ateye, and the free choice “ of the people,” The singular mode of solemnizing marriages, that took place during Cromwell's usurpation, was strict- ly observed here, for near four years, during which time, sixty-six couple were joined together, before the civil magistrate. The gentlemen who were applied to in this case, for the most part, appear to have been Thomas Stockdale, esq., of Bilton-park, or sir Tho« * If the usual method of estimating the population of a town, by multiplying the number of annual births by 27, be admitted, we shatV Sad Knaresbrough contains upwards of four thousand-inhabitant*., G 3