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

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.

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

The place: BEMPTON.     Church dedication: ST. MICHAEL.     Church type: Perpetual Curacy.

Area, 1,930 acres. Dickering wapentake. - Population, 287 ; Church-room, sufficient; Net value, £51.

In Bempton, Legolf had one manor of six carucates to be taxed.

In 1441, a composition was made between the Prior and Convent of Bridlington and the inhabitants of Bempton, within the parish of Bridlington, that the inhabitants might have one Chaplain in the Chapel of Bempton ; and 22nd of July 1441, a commission was granted to the Bishop of Dromore to consecrate the Chapel and chapelyard.

Patron and impropriator, H. Broadley, Esq.

Valued in 1707, at £13. 6s. 8d.; in the Parliamentary Survey, vol. xvii. page 407, it is stated : " £13. 6s. 8d. paid by the impropriator to the minister ;" and in 1818, at £46 per annum.

Augmented in 1766, with £200; in 1787, with £200; in 1796, with £200; in 1824, with £200; and in 1832, with £200 -all by lot.

An Inclosure Act was passed 5th Geo. III.

No glebe house.

The Register Books for marriages and burials commence in 1597, and for baptisms in 1605.

Charities:
Walmsley's gift, vide Flamborough.

Poor's Stock. The sum of £10, the amount of two ancient benefactions to the poor, is retained by the overseers for the time being, and the interest yearly distributed among poor widows. -Vide 9th Report, page 721.

Post town: Bridlington.

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References:
Torre's MS., page 955. Abp. Sharp's MS., vol. ii. page 233. Bawdwen's Domesday Book (Bentone), page 82. Mon. Angl., vol. vi. page 284. Burton's Monasticon, page 216. Prickett's Bridlington, page 53.