Steynton, with its appurtenances, in the County of York, asserting it was in our hand, because it was found by an Inquisition taken in your Office, that Stephen, formerly King of England, our Ancestor, gave the Master of the Knights Templars, in England, and their Sucessors for ever, the aforesaid Manor, with its appurtenances, on such conditions that they should there provide one Chaplain to celebrate divine service, daily, for ever; and should entertain and lodge such poor people, and strangers, as passed that way, and should likewise ring a Bell+ and blow a Horn in the twilight, after sunset, every evening to prevent strangers and travellers from losing their way there," &c. + Bell-hill is noticed in Knox's interesting Map of the Environs of Scarborough. See page 58. |