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Title: The history of the castle, town and forest of Knaresbrough, with Harrogate, and it's medicinal springs
Year: 1809 (1800s)
Authors: Hargrove, Ely, 1741-1818
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Publisher: Knaresbrough Printed by Hargrove
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ON the front of the altar-table is inscribed:
This ancient church of saint Andrew, was repaired

RIBSTONE. 273

and embellished, by sir Harry Goodricke, in the 12th of
king William, our deliverer from popery and slavery;
who, with Mary, his beloved wife, design to be inter-
red, in God's appointed time, in the new vault, at the
west end of this church. She was daughter of colonel
William Legge, and sister to George, lord Dartmouth;
and, has lived with her husband, in great union, near
36 years. 1703.

ON each side of the altar-table, is a tomb, supposed
to cover the remains of two knights templars.

IN the chapel-yard, is a very curious sepulchral
monument, of the standard-bearer to the ninth
roman legion; which was dug up in Trinity-gardens,
near Micklegate, in York, in the year 1688. In his
right-hand is the ensign of a cohort; and, in his left, a
measure for corn. It was communicated to the pub-
lic, by mr. Thoresby, in the Philosophical Transacti
ons; and, from thence, inserted in the late edition of
Cambden's Britannia.

274 RIBSTONE.
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THE inscription includes the name and office of the
person; and, the usual abbreviation H.S.E. for Hic
Situs Est; i.e., here is placed

THIS place is remarkable for the produce of a deli-
cious apple, called the RIBSTONE-PARK PIPPIN,
The original tree was raised from a pippin, brought
from France; from which tree, such numbers have
been propagated, that they arE now to be met with in
almost every orchard in this, and many other coun-
ties. Notwithstanding the increase, tbe fruit still
retains its value, being preferred before every other
apple this country produces. The old tree is yet
standing; and, in the year 1787, produced six bush-
els of fruit.

ON the left hand, as you approach the house, is the
much-admired ORIENTAL PLATANUS, whose princi-
pal limb, extends 44 feet from the bole: And, near the
chapel, is a large mulberry-tree.

On the ripe or bank of the river, here was, former-
ly, a marble quarry; from which, probably, the vil-
lage derives its name—Ripe-sten.

Two miles from Ribstone, is
NORTH-DEIGHTON :
In this village, on the estate of sir John Ingilby,

It hath been the custom of migrators, in all ages, to give names to
the lands,, in their new settlements, similar to those left behind them,
in their native country ; hence this, and the adjoining village, may have,
in some remote age, been the property of a brabantian chieftain; as
there is a village of the same aame, in that province.

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