MARTON-in-the-FOREST, a parish in the wapentake
of BULMER, North riding of the county of YORK,
5 miles (B. by S.) from Easingwould, containing, with
the chapelry of Moxby, 164 inhabitants. The living
is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese
of York, endowed with £ 600 royal bounty, and in the
patronage of the Archbishop of York. A priory of
Augustine canons and nuns, the latter of whom soon
after removed to Moxby, was founded here, in honour
of St. Mary, by Bertram de Bulmer, who lived in the
reigns of Stephen and his successor, the revenue of
which at the dissolution was £ 183. 2. 4. The nunnery
at Moxby, which was erected before 1167,
by Henry IT., in honour of St. John, the Apostle
and Evangelist, had at the dissolution a revenue of
£32. 6. 2.