MIDDLESMOOR, a chapelry in the parish of
KIRKBY-MALZEARD, lower division of the wapentake of
CLARO, West riding of the county of YORK, 15 miles
(W. by N.) from Ripon. The population is returned
with Fountains-Earth. The living is a perpetual curacy,
annexed to the vicarage of Masham, in the peculiar
jurisdiction of the Dean and Chapter of York,
though claimed to be in the special jurisdiction of the
church, late the prebend of Masham, endowed with
£200 private benefaction, £1200 royal bounty, and
£ 800 parliamentary grant. John Lazenby, in 1743, de-.
vised lands, now producing about £18 a year, for the
establishment and maintenance of a free school for ten
boys; als.o Simon Homer, in 1809, gave a rent-charge
of £20, for the education of poor children.