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

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.

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

The place: BRIDLINGTON.     Church dedication: ST. MARY.     Church type: Perpetual Curacy.

Area, 12,410 acres.

Dickering wapentake. Population, 5,673 *1; Church-room, 900 *2; Net value, £143. -Here was a Church at the time of the Conquest.

In the town of Bridlington are sixteen carucates of land, of which the Prior of Bridlington held twelve in frankalmoigne, of the fee of Gant, and he of the King in capite, for one knight's fee.

And four carucates were held of the Prior of Bridlington, who held them of the fee of Meynill, and he of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and he of the King.

Walter de Gant, with the consent of King Henry I. placed Canons regular in the Church of Bridlington, giving them his estates there. The Church was confirmed to them by Archbishop Grenefeld, and after the appropriation, was served by the Canons themselves so long as their monastery stood, and appropriated to their Priory.

26th January, A.D. 1346, a Commission issued out to inquire about the certainty of those miracles said to be done by Fr. John de Thwing, late Prior of Bridlington, at his tomb, &c.

Odenell, son of Nicholas de Aubeney, gave one mark per annum, out of his mill at Bridlington, to Roche Abbey.

The patronage of this Church was conveyed 11th February 1768, to Samuel Buck, Esq., in consequence of his benefaction of £200 by virtue of statute 1st Geo. I.

Patron, the Rev. Charles Simeon. Impropriator, Mrs. Harland.

Torre merely gives an account of the monastery.

The Church is valued in Pope Nicholas's taxation at £66. 13s. 4d.; in 1707, the Curacy was valued at £8; in the Parliamentary Survey, vol. xvii. page 402, it is stated: " Impropriation worth £280, only £8 allowed for a Curate. No minister at present. Buckton to be annexed to Brompton ;" and in 1818, at £83. 10s. per annum.

Augmented in 1747, with £200 by lot ; in 1769, with £200 to meet benefaction of £200 from Samuel Buck, Esq.; and in 1812, with £1,000; and in 1817, with £600 both from the Parliamentary grant, by lot.

30th July 1808, faculty to erect a gallery.

4th December 1833, ditto to rebuild a gallery, fit up 140 free seats in the Church, and make other alterations.

Inclosure Acts were passed 8th Geo. III. and 46th Geo. III. (Sewerby cum Marton.)

No glebe house.

The Register Books commence in 1564. Chasm 1642 to 1645 inclusive.

The Prior of Bridlington had jurisdiction until the Dissolution. It is said the Dean and Chapter of York, and the Prebendary of Bugthorpe, had formerly jurisdiction within Sewerby and Marton, in the parish of Bridlington. It does not appear to be known where the wills proved in the peculiar jurisdiction previous to the Dissolution (if extant) are now deposited.

Charities:
The Free School, founded by William Hustler, of Bridlington, by deed, dated 27th September, 12th Charles I. Endowment, a rent charge of £40 per annum. The Vice-Chancellor by order, dated 29th March 1819, directed the number of free scholars to be limited to twenty, and that they be instructed in the art of grammar, reading, writing, and common arithmetic. That the office of usher be abolished, that the master be chosen by the heirs of the founder, and the minister and churchwardens of Bridlington.

William Bower's gift, by deed, dated 7th July, 23rd Charles II. Endowment a messuage at Bridlington, and a house and 59a. 0r. 38p. of land, part of which is woodland, and the interest of £50. Twelve girls are taught knitting and reading, and are paid 10d. a week each; and, after paying the mistress £13.6s. 8d. salary, and 1d. a week for each child, and repairs, &c. the residue of the income is distributed among the children every new year's day. The foundation deed requires that the children be taught to spin and card wool.

Henry Cowton's charity, by will, dated 10th April 1696. Income : rent of house, 148a. 0r. 4e. of land, and rents-charge of £26. 6s. 8d. per annum, subject to a rent charge of £3 and portion of rents to Hunmanby. £6 per annum is expended once a year, in money or coals, among the poor, approved at a vestry meeting ; £13 per annum to the minister for reading prayers, and preaching every Wednesday ; £17. 6s. 8d. per annum in bread, distributed every Wednesday among poor persons attending divine service ; and to the parish-clerk £2. 12s. per annum, for attending to the distribution of such bread. Residue to the poor of Bridlington and Hunmanby ; three-fifths to the former and two-fifths to the latter.

William Hudson's and Joseph Hudson's Charities, under will and deed, dated respectively 8th December 1731, and 5th June 1771. rent charge of £10 per annum, to the poor of Bridlington and the Quay.

Joseph Hudson's rent charge. £4 per annum, in augmentation of the above £10.

Ann Yates's gift, by will, in 1795. Interest of £100 for the poor.

Timothy Woolf's gift, by will, dated 21st February 1734. Rent of 31a. 0r. 6p. of land, distributed in small sums.

Jane Woolfe's charity, by deed, dated 24th March 1775. Rent of 6a. 0r. 7p. of land, distributed among the poor.

Thomas Dale and Mary his wife (which said Mary Dale was the executrix of Mary Stead, who had intended to leave £100 for charitable purposes), by deed, dated 25th September 1756. Rent of 2a. 1r. 12p. of land, for the poor not receiving common alms.

Mrs. Mary Watson's charity. £1. 6s. per annum, for monthly bread to the poor.

Isaac Wall's charity, by will, dated 20th August 1795. Dividends on £1,000 three per cents. Half to be expended in weekly bread, and the remainder in coals on Christmas Eve.

Lost Charities. -It appears by the returns made in 1786, that two annual rents-charge, one of £2 given by Robert Prudon, and another of £4, donor unknown, were payable to the overseers, but the Commissioners could obtain no satisfactory information either as to the persons or property liable. Also George Parkin, by will, dated 11 th August 1723, devised certain houses and lands, charged with the providing of forty bushels of coals for poor widows. The payment, at the time of the Report, had been discontinued above thirty years, and it did not appear advisable to the Commissioners to recommend any legal proceedings.

TOWNSHIP OF BUCKTON.

£2 per annum rent charge. No free scholars.

TOWNSHIP OF MARTON CUM SEWERBY.

Richard Raine's gift, in 1772. Interest of £5, lodged in the hands of the overseers, for the Indigent poor. -Vide 9th Report, page 721.

A post town.

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References:
Torre's MS. page 945 (East Riding), and page 615 (Peculiars). Abp. Sharp's MS., vol. ii. page 232. Bawdwen's Domesday Book, (Brettinton, Bocheton, Eston, Grendale, Hilgertorp, Spretune, Siwardbi,) pages 14. 29. 82. Mon. Angl. vol. vi. page 284. Burton's Monast. pages 219. 232. 321. Thompson's History of Bridlington. Prickett's History of the Priories. Hinderwell's Scarborough, page 353. Gent's Hull. Cole's Filey, pages 32-40.

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Notes:
*1 Viz. Bridlington Quay, 4,792; Buckton, 171 ; Easton, 17 ; Grindall, 121; Hilderthorp, 73; Sewerby and Marton, 352; and Speeton, 111. In 1834, the Population was returned at 5,405, excluding, it is presumed, the Chapelries.

*2 In 1818, the Church-room was returned at 3,300. 210 free seats have been obtained under a grant of £150 from the Society.

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Other information:
SYWARDBY AND MARTON. -There are three carucates of land held of the liberty of St. Peter of York.

So there is in Sywardby certain tenements of the Dean and Chapter's jurisdiction.

Also fourteen tenements and eight oxgangs, and a fourth part of an oxgang of land, which belong to the Prebend of Bugthorpe, who hath jurisdiction of all the tenants thereof.

Also the Prebend of Bugthorpe hath in Marton certain tenements and a farm, which rendered 28s. per annum.

And the Lady Euphemia de Heslerton held the fifth part of the manor of Marton, whose tenants are all of the Prebendary of Bugthorpe's jurisdiction.

BUCKTON. -Here was a Chantry, which was valued at the Dissolution at £4. 6s. 8d. per annum.