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Notes.
STERNE AT SUTTON ON THE FOREST.
The following extracts from the Register Book of the parish of Sutton on the Forest, Yorkshire, which are in the handwriting of Lawrence Sterne, have come into my possession through the kindness of my friend Archdeacon Creyke (of York), and I beg to offer them for insertion in "N. & Q."
"Lawrence Sterne, A. B., was inducted into ye Vicarage of Sutton August ye 25th, 1738.
"Lawrence Sterne created Master of Arts at Cambridge, July, 1740.
"L. Sterne, A. M., made Prebendary of York (Givendale) by Lancelot Arch-bishop in January, 1740; and in Jan. 1741 prefer'd by his Lordsp to the Prebend of N. Newbald.