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

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.

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

The place: ELLOUGHTON.     Church dedication: ST. MARY.     Church type: Peculiar. Discharged Vicarage.

Area, 1,420 acres. Harthill wapentake. Hunsley Beacon *1. -Population, 355 *2; Church-room, 270 *3 ; Net value, £97.

At the time of the Norman Survey, the manor was held by the Archbishop. There was a priest and a Church at Elloughton at that time ; also thirty-six villanes and three bordars.

The Church was appropriated to the Prebend of Wetwang, and a Vicarage ordained therein.

Torre does not give the ordination. The first institution mentioned in his catalogue of Vicars is dated in 1349.

Patron and impropriator, the Prebendary of the Cathedral of York.

The Vicarage is valued in Pope Nicholas's taxation at £4. 13s. 4d.; in the King's books at £5. 0s. 5d.; and in the Parliamentary Survey, vol. xvii. page 350, it is stated : " £10 maintenance ; no preaching minister."

" To the Vicar belongs £20 as an augmentation, made 44th Elizabeth, together with the small tithes." Signed, " Peter Hickington." Notitia Parochi-alis, No. 995.

An Inclosure Act was passed 34th Geo. III.

The glebe house is unfit for residence.

The Register Books , commence in 1657.

Charity:
William Mason's charity, by will, dated 11 th April 1705. A house, stable, coach-house, yard, and garden, containing in the whole about 2a. and an allotment of 2a. 3r. of land, all copyhold. The property was bought with a legacy of £120 for the purchase of a house for the constant residence of the Vicar; and if he refuse to reside, then the rent to be distributed among the poor. At the time of the Report, the rent was added to the poor's rate. -Vide 10th Report, page 657.

Post town: South Cave.

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References:
Torre's MS., (Peculiars,) page 483. Abp. Sharp's MS., vol. ii. page 101. Bawdwen's Domesday Book (Elgedon), page 45; (Walbi), pages 45. 184.

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Notes:
*1 Partly in the liberty of St. Peter of York.

*2 Elloughton with Brough.

*3 According to the return of 1818. In 1834, returned " sufficient."