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

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ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.

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

The place: FOXHOLES.     Church dedication: PATRON SAINT NOT KNOWN.     Church type: Rectory in charge.

Area, 4,150 acres. Dickering wapentake. -Population, 217 *1; Church-room, 100; Net value, £531. -The town of Foxholes contained six carucates of land, of which the Church was endowed with half a carucate.

And Robert de Acklum held two carucates of William Harpham, who held the same of the Lady of Kildall, and she of the King in capite.

Also Walter de Bubwith held ten oxgangs of the fee of Gant, who held them of the King in capite.

And Roger le Despenser held one carucate and a half, of the said William de Harpham.

The town paid 4s. per annum.

The Abbey of Whitby had certain portions of tithe corn in Foxholes.

The Church was given by Goisfrid Baynard to the Abbey of St. Mary's, York, and at the Dissolution the patronage came to the Crown. In 1661, the Gees began to present. In 1736, the Foords first presented ; and in 1783, the presentation came to the family of Sykes.

Patron, R. Sykes, Esq.

Valued in Pope Nicholas's taxation, at £34. 13s. 4d.; new taxation, £26; in the King's Books, at £22, after deducting for Synodals and Procurations, 15s. 6d.; pension to the Abbot of St. Mary's, £8; Synodals and Procurations, 9s. 6d.; Hospital of St. Giles in Beverley, £10. 16s. 4d.; a corody to the heirs of William Babthorpe, 10s.; and in the Parliamentary Survey, vol. xvii. page 411, it is stated : " Rectory worth £120 per annum, 1ls. 6d. Crown rent."

" Here are four oxgangs of glebe, and all tithes." Signed, " Caleb. Wilkinson, Rector." -Notitia Parochialis, No. 897.

14th May 1777, faculty granted to take down and rebuild the Church.

The glebe house is fit for residence. It was rebuilt under a faculty, granted 2nd April 1716.

The Register Books commence in 1654. The entries of marriages from 1750 to, 1783 deficient. - Vide Transcripts at York.

Parochial Charities. -No return.

Post town: Kilham.


References:
Torre's MS., page 1003. Abp. Sharp's vol. ii. page 220. Bawdwen's Domesday Book (Foxele), pages 14. 233. Burton's Monast. pages 70-72.


Notes:
*1 Viz. Butterwick, 100; and Foxholes with Boythorpe. 117. In 1834, the Population was returned 177, but probably excluded Butterwick.


From the original book published by
George Lawton in 1842..
OCR and changes for Web page presentation
by Colin Hinson. © 2013.