William Gollinge "of The Thrange in Langden, clerk" had a son baptized 1590. Charles Middlefell "clerke of Landale" died 1643. Richard Harrison, clerk; died 1670. Daniel Green, d. 1829. Richard Steele, d. 1780. Owen Lloyd, d. 1841. Thomas Jackson, d. 1821. Stephen Birkett, d. 1860. William Jackson, 1821.[179] James Coward, vicar; 1885. Thomas Sewell, 1822. R. S. Hulbert, ret. 1900. [179] See page 173, note. Owen Lloyd was the son of Charles Lloyd, who was the friend of Charles Lamb and for some time had resided at old Brathay. He inherited considerable poetic gifts, and composed the Rushbearing Hymn always sung at the Ambleside Festival. He lived for a while with his friend, Mrs. Luff, at Fox Ghyll, Loughrigg. RYDAL.--The chapel of St. Mary, Rydal, was built by Lady Fleming in 1824 and consecrated by the Bishop of Chester on August 27th, 1825. This new foundation took a large slice out of the old parish, though customary dues and tithes continued for some time to be paid to the rector. (See later.) BRATHAY.--The church, which was built here in 1836 by Mr. Giles Redmayne, stands on the Lancashire side of the river, but its parochial boundary took another slice off the old parish, which was now wholly robbed of the township of Rydal and Loughrigg. So the old mother church, robbed of her daughter chapels and the folk she so long fostered, rules to-day only the little valley of Grasmere. [Illustration: Decorative] SCHOOL AND CLERKS Latter-day clerks and schoolmasters present a tangled subject, difficult to unravel. Sometimes the clerk taught school. More often there was a separate schoolmaster who served as curate, entering holy orders for the purpose; for by this economy of labour two meagre stipends were put together, and the rector might even effect an economy on the one.[180] Sometimes each of the three offices was served by its own functionary; and yet again it seems likely that they were occasionally all filled by one man--in which case a deputy was hired for the menial work. [180] There were sad doings among the Pluralists and absentee parsons of the eighteenth century; and the unpaid curates were often addicted to drink. See _Ambleside Town and Chapel_, pp. 56-7 and onward.