This tablet is erected by the York Civic Trust in memory of Matthew Poole M.A. who is buried in this church. He was Rector of St. Michael le Querne London in 1649 and resigned in 1662 on the passing of the Act of Uniformity. He was the author of 'Poli Synopsis Criticorum', a work on which he laboured for 10 years. Born in York in 1624 he died in Amsterdam on 12th October 1679.