It may be well to give a list of the Post-Reformation parsons of Ambleside (rectified according to present knowledge), as well as the evidence of a provision made for them in 1584. This evidence was found amongst Mr. George Browne's MSS. too late for insertion in _Ambleside Town and Chapel_, where the deed of 1597 is given in full. It is an extract from a contemporaneous document, written out in a memorandum book of Christopher Birkett, who owned part of the lands of the Forrest family in Ambleside; and it records the fixed contributions of that family to the endowment. "Forth of the Schedule conteining the sums of money granted by ye Ten^{ts} and Inhabitants of Amble' for the repaires of the Chapel and payeing the Ministers Stipend according to an Award whereto the schedule is Annexed. Dated 16th Octobr in the 26th yeare of Queen Elizibeth. John Forrest xijd. Wife of Rich: Forrest viijd. Antony Forrest iiijd. Edw: Forrest 4d. Thomas Forrest 3s. 4d. A Schedule of all the P'cels of ground named and set downe to be Occupyed by ye Rulers of Ambleside to the use and intents conteined in the Award annexed. One P'cell of ground conteining one Rood lyeing at the height of Seethwait in the possession of John Forrest. One P'cell lyeing at Kilnhow, one Rood in the pos'ion of the wife of Richard Forrest. One close above the Grove in possession of Edward Forrest. One close called Grove close in possession of Thom: Forrest." AMBLESIDE CURATES The names of two or three priests who may have served Ambleside before the Reformation have already been given. A new era was marked by the endowment of 1584, and the appointment of an excellent and learned man followed. 1585--JOHN BELL. He was the first curate to inscribe his name in the Bible belonging to the chapel, which, after long alienation, has been restored to the church.[176] Bell's latest inscription tells that he had then served (in 1629) for 44 years. He was buried in Grasmere, December 23rd, 1634. His fine action in constructing with his scholars a causeway across the miry bottom between Ambleside and Rydal was long held in remembrance. In his latter days he must have had an assistant under him, for the burial of Leonard Wilson, "Scolmaister at Amblesyd," is entered for February 12th, 1621. [176] _Ambleside "Curates" Bible, Transactions_, C. and W. An. S., n.s. vol vii. 1635--THOMAS MASON (spelt also Mayson and Masonn). It was he, doubtless, who witnessed (and wrote out) many Ambleside deeds, though not till 1840 does the word "clerk" follow. 1647--HENRY TURNER, undoubtedly a Presbyterian.