STAINLEY (SOUTH), a parish in the lower division
of the wapentake of CLARO, West riding of the
county of YORK, 2 miles (N. E. by N.) from Ripley,
containing, with the township of Clayton, 232 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the peculiar
jurisdiction of the court of the honour of Knaresborough,
endowed with £200 private benefaction, £800
royal bounty, and £300 parliamentary grant, and in
the patronage of Homer Reynard, Esq., and the heirs
of the late Mrs. Gibson.