OF THE

PARISH OF WADDINGTON

AND

FOREST OF BOWLAND.

PARISH OF WADDINGTON.

The parochial chapel of Waddington was endowed (as per composition between the vicar of Mitton, Sir J. Tempest, Knight, and others) A. D. 1438, but not improbably founded long before.

The choir, at least, and perhaps the tower, were rebuilt early in the reign of Henry the Eighth; for the former has the date MDXI. upon a beam, and the latter, which is of excellent masonry, bears every mark of that steeple-building æra in Craven. When Dodsworth visited the church, there were in the east window the figures of a Knight and Lady kneeling ; on his surcoat the arms of Tempest; on hers, those of Bowling, sable; an escutcheon, ermine; within an orle of martlets, argent; and beneath, “ Orate pro anima Ricardi Tempest, ac et Rosarnæ uxoris suæ, necnon omnium filiorum et filiarum prædicti Ricardi et Rosarnæ, qui istam fenestram fecerunt, A. D. M.DXII.”—This chapel is dedicated to St. Helen, and in the patronage of Thomas Lister Parker, Esq. of Browsholme. The present incumbent is the Rev. William Parker, who is also vicar of Almonbury, near Huddersfield, in the county of York. Anno Dom. 1810, the vicarage-house was rebuilt and enlarged by the present vicar.

Of the Parkers of Browsholme, interred in this church, the fol. lowing memorial is engraved on a large plate of brass, with the arms.

D. O. M.
Bonæ Memoriæ et

D. O. M.
Virtuti et Honori

Spei æternæ

Sacrum Edward' Parker arm' ex antiqua Parker

Hic Requiescit in Pace Maria oru' Familia de Brovsholme in Com'

Filia Richi Sunderland de Ebor' oriundus, quondam de Aula Claren- High Sunderland Arm' et si in Academia Cantabrig' Graduatus

Mariæ Filiæ Richi Sotenstall et de Honorificâ Societate Hospitii

Quonda' Prætoris Londinensis Graiensis Juriconsvltvs necnon Com

Uxor Edvardi Parker Arm' itat' Ebor' et Lancastr' Ivstitiar

Variis et eximiis Animi Virtutiivs Pacis et Quoru.'

bus Exornata et Ditata Fuit, enim. Qui

Erga
Deum coluit

Devm Pientissima
Legiantiam tenuit

Maritum Obsequentissima
Pacifice Vixit

Liberos Indulgentissima
Neminem læsit

Servos Æquissima
Svv'cviqve tribuit,

Proximos Amicissima
Hic

Pauperes et
Mortales Reliquias Donec in CHRO Resur- Egenos
gant Mortales Deposuit in Vigiliis

Placide in Dno. Obdormivit et Terrenam Sti Jacobi Ao. Salutis M.D.C. L. xvii. Vitam pro Cælesti commutavit xvij die C, A. P. D.

Redemptionis nostræ M. D. C. L. xxjij.

C. A. P.D.
Horum mutui Amoris, Charissima supersunt Pignora, Thomas Parker, Arm', Iusti-
ciari' Pacis, Robert Parker, Gen’, Edward' Parker, I. C., Roger Parker, Gen., et
Maria, Uxor Thomæ Heber de Hollinghall, Gen', Richvs vero Filius Natu
Quartus Præmissus est.

Florida Pax Vivis, Requies æterna Sepultis.
Parentibus suis omni Pietatis officio Maxime colendis
Robert Parker, Illorum Secundo-genitus Hoc Monumentum.

Posuit.

*} Eleemosynaria Liberalissima