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The present chimes were put up in 1795, by Mr. George Goodall of Tadcaster; who in addition to the old set of chimes had the sum of £55 paid him for the same.

VALUATION of WAKEFIELD VICARAGE

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RECTORS INSTITUTED.

Doin. Rich. de Leehebroe ...June 1238.
P. de Fihelden .............Cal. May 1243.
William de Cusantin.

VICARS.

Thorn. de Drayton,or,Bratton,.. Cap.June 21, 1349.
Hen. de Grenehod, .........................- Oct. 8, 1349.
Joh. de Whytelay or Whiteby, .......- May 11, 1362.
John Stadefete, Pbr......................... Aug. 6, 1369.
William Wodroove.......................... Aug. 6, 1372.
John Bolteby, cui pensio £10 pro vita.
Rt. Bever Pbr. obiit. 1437,.................Jan. 3, 1435.
John Lounde, Pbr........................................1437.
John Preston..................................Feb. 28, 1443.
Thomas Rogers, Pbr...................... Sept.23, 1462.
Thomas Knolles, Subd. Ebor.......... June 30, 1502.
Thomas Robertson, S.T.P...............June 13, 1546.
William Morton Feb..................................- 1587.
Edward Mawde, A.M....................April 20, 1593.
William Lister, A.M........................ May 3, 1598.
Tim. Mawde, A.M.........................Feb. 28, 1620.
Jac. Lister, A.M............................Aug. 15, 1625.
Obadiali Lee,.................................Feb. 18, 1667.
Thomas Scott,.....................A.M March 18, 1700.
George Arnott, A.M.......................May 11, 1729.
Benjamin Wilson,...........................Sept. 16, 1750.
Michael Bacon, D.D............................Oct. 1764.
Richard Munkhouse, D.D....................Sept. 1805.
Samuel Sharp, M.A..........................Feb. 3, 1810.

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INTERIOR OF THE CHURCH.

On entering the Church at the chancel door, the first object is an elegant gothic stove erected under the direction of the present churchwardens, in the year 1822, and executed at Roscoe Place, near Sheffield.
The finest view of the interior is from the altar rails, immediately behind this stove from which point the screen, dividing the chancel from the nave, the stalls and tabernacle work of the chancel, the pulpit, the organ and the three galleries are seen to the greatest advantage.
The following extracts, relating to the monuments, painted glass, &c. which were formerly in this Church, but have since disappeared, and to other particulars connected with its ancient history, are taken from the surveys of Dugdale and Dodsworth, and from the M.S. collections of two other eminent antiquaries.

IN THE CHOIR.

Hic jacet Dom. Isabella Asheton, vidua Joh. Asheton, militis et Mater Gulielmi Mirfield, militis, quæ ob. 6 die Maii 1488.

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Here lyeth buried Elizabeth Mawde, wife of John Mawde the younger, who died the 2nd day of July, 1918.

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Hic jacet Thomas Knolles, Sacræ Theologiæ Professor, Collegii Magdalen: Oxoniensis Prœses, Eccie. de Wakefield Vicarius, qui quidem Thomas obiit 9 die Maii 1537, cujus animæ propitietur Deus. Ac etiam orate pro ejus anima et pro animabus parentum suorum, ut per gratiam Dei* - - - - - - - -

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Here lyeth Martin Birkhead, Esq. late Queen's Attorney and Justice of the Peace and Quorum, who died the 6th of July, 1590.
On the same Stone,
Henricus de Aberford Prior.

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1517,
Sir Christopher Stead, §
We wish with Xt.
Whose soul’s herein laid.
Above doth shew
When he was Priest,
Below what time he dy’d.
27th of Feb. 1578.

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* The above is the oldest memorial of aVicar buried in this Church. Dr. Knolles was born at Ouston in the County of Lancaster, and was Tutor to Robert Cecyl, Earl of Salisbury.

§ This was a Curate of Wakefield. The title of Sir was given to the Clergy at this period, in the same manner as to Bachelors of Arts at our Universities, who are now styled Dominus. or Sir.

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Here lyeth buried Richard Peck of Wakefield, Esq. and Alice his wife, daur. of Peter Middleton of Stockeld Arm. who had issue two sons and four daur. he died Jan. 24th, A.D. 1516.

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Here lyeth buried John Peck of Wakefield and Jane his wife, daur. of John Anne of Frickley, who had issue 8 sons and 8 daurs. and dyed at Wakefield, Jan. 4, 1558.

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On a raised tomb near the Altar, the Arms of Hatfeild of Stanley, viz. Ermine, on a chevron Sable, 3 cinquefoils Argent, impaled with Saville; and an inscription, part of which was illegible, to the memory of Gervase Hatfeild, Esq. and Grace his wife, daughter and heir of Edward Saville of Midgley, alias Stanley Hall, Esq. who died Anno 1654.

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Here lyeth the body of Emanuel Gilby of Wakefield,
Gent. one of the younger sons of Sir George Gilby, of
Boat, Co. Nott, Knt. who died March 1660. Etat. Suœ
57. Spero resur. - - - - -

IN THE NORTH AISLE.

Hic jacet Arthurus Frickley Curia Wakefield, Drus . . . attor. . . . .
Septemb.25 die. An 1604, mt. 58. He left no issue.