Data from the 'Collectio Rerum Ecclesiasticarum' from the year 1842.

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.

Data from the 'Collectio Rerum Ecclesiasticarum' from the year 1842.

The place: ACKLAM.     Church dedication: ST. JOHN BAPTIST.     Church type: Peculiar. Discharged Vicarage.

Area, 4,130 acres. Buckrose wapentake. *2 Population, 827 *3; Church-room, 200; Net value, £108.

Patron and impropriator, the Chancellor of the Church of York.

Earl Siward had nine carucates and a half here. Two vassals had it of the King at the time of Domesday Survey. There was then two ploughs and a Church.

The Church was given by William de Scurs to the Priory of Thornton on Humber.

Archbishop Walter Grey purchased this Church of the Priory of Thornton, and on the 3rd March 1223, annexed it to the Chancellorship of the Church of York for ever, together with all the spiritual jurisdiction belonging thereto, and freed it from all episcopal customs or exactions whatever.

Mr. Torre is silent as to any endowment of the Vicarage, but he mentions a composition as to the tithes of Barthrop, where it appears there was then a Chapel.

The Priory of Bridlington had large possessions within this parish, which are specified by Burton, and on the Non. October 1273, a composition was made between the Priory and the Chancellor as to the tithes of wool and lamb on the lands belonging to the monastery. They had also the manor, which was given to them by the Lords Ross. The Nuns of Marrick had also an annual rent out of Acklam.

Valued in the King's books at £5; in 1707, at £24. 13s.; in the Parliamentary Survey, vol. xvii. pages 147, (Rectory) 151, (Vicarage) 431, it is stated: " Composition of 40s. out of Barthropp. Great tithes of some closes, and all small tithes (£20) Vicarage worth £20;" and in 1818, at £130 per annum.

" The Vicarage is only endowed with part of the tithe hay, the old enclosure, Easter reckonings, and privy tithes. An augmentation of £6 per annum, made at the Restoration ; annual value £25 per annum. The Rectory is farmed for above £123 per annum." Signed, " Joseph Ellynthorp, Vic. of Acclam." -Notitia Parochialis, No. 455.

Inclosure Acts were passed 9th and 44th Geo. III.

The glebe house is fit for residence.

The Register Books commence in 1716. -Vide earlier transcripts in the Peculiar Registry.

Charities:
Frances Barker's charity, by will, dated in 1729. Rent of about one acre of land at Leavening, paid to a schoolmaster, for teaching five poor children to read and write.

William Hudson's gift, about 1759. Interest of £5 given at Christmas to the poor. Now paid out of the rates.

Jqhn Smith's or Smithson's charity, in 1681. Two rents-charge of 20s. each; one to be paid on his tombstone on St. John the Baptist's day, and the other at the same place on St. John the Evangelist's day, to the poor of the two townships. -Vide 9th Report, page 715.

Post town: Malton.

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References:
Torre's MS. (Peculiars) page 513. Abp. Sharp's MS. vol. ii. page 130. Burton's Mon. pages 29. 61, 62. 213. 227. 269. Bawdwen's Domesday Book, (Aclun, Laclum, or Achelum, Cleuinde) pages 29. 83. 227. 235.

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Notes:
*1 Or East Acklam.

*2 And partly in the west division of Langbarugh. The townships of Acklam with Barthorpe and Leavening, are partly in the liberty of St. Peter of York.

*3 Viz. Acklam with Barthorpe 371, and Leavening 354. Population of the parish only returned at 300 in 1834.