FOCKERBY, a township in the parish of ADLINGFLEET,
lower division of the wapentake of OSGOLDCROSS,
West riding of the county of YORK, 10 miles
(S.E.) from Howden, containing 106 inhabitants. Here
is a free school, formerly a grammar school, endowed
with land-producing £60 per annum, the gift of Mr.
Skerne: the master is appointed by the Master and
Fellows of Catherine Hall, Camhridge, to which hall
there are eight exhibitions, founded by the same individual,
whose niece, Mrs. Mary Ramsden, in 1743, founded
six fellowships and ten scholarships in the same, preference
being given to youths born in the county of York,
and more particularly to such as had been educated in
the free school at Fockerby.