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

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.

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

The place: BUTTERWICK.     Church dedication: CHAPEL.

Dickering wapentake . -Population, 100 *1, vide Foxholes; Church-room, 100; Net value, £47. -The Abbey of Whitby held one carucate of land in Butterwick, and Roger de Mowbray gave lands here to Selby Abbey.

This is a very ancient Chapel, and was given by Robert de Butterwick to St. Mary's Abbey, a composition being made in 1333, about rebuilding it. It hath right of burial, and is charged for Synodals, 1s. 4d.

Patron, the Rector of Foxholes.

Valued in 1818, at £60 per annum.

Augmented in 1790, with £200; in 1791, with £200; in 1810, with £200 from the Parliamentary grant ; in 1811, with £200; in 1812, with £200; and in 1813, with £200 -all by lot.

An Inclosure Act was passed in the 11th Geo. III.

No glebe house.

The Register Books commence in 1796. See Transcripts of an older date at York.

Parochial Charities. -No return.

Post town: Kilham.

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References:
Torre's MS., page 1008. Abp. Sharp's MS., vol. ii. page 204. Bawdwen's Domesday Book (Butruic), page 200. Burton's Monast. pages 71. 392.

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Notes:
*1 But in 1834, the Population was certified to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to amount only to 20.