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

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.

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

The place: HARSWELL.     Church dedication: ST. PETER.     Church type: Discharged Rectory.

Area, 720 acres. Harthill wapentake. Holme Beacon. -Population, 70 *1; Church-room, 100; Net value, £198.

This Rectory was a long time in the patronage of the Salvins, from them of the Gascoignes, and now of the Slingsbys, Barts.

Valued in Pope Nicholas's taxation, at £3. 6s. 8d.; in the King's books at £4, after deducting for Synodals and Procurations 9s. 6d.; in the Parliamentary Survey, vol. xvii. page 362, at £24, and stated to be " fit to be united to Everingham, distance less than a mile ;" and in 1818, at £103 per annum.

The glebe house was returned in 1818 as very unfit for residence ; and it was also returned unfit in 1834.

The Register Books commence in 1653.

Parochial Charities. -No return.

Post town: Market Weighton.

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References:
Torre's MS., page 1195. Abp. Sharp's MS., vol. ii. page 23. Bawdwen's Domesday Book (Ersuuelle), page 12.

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Notes:
*1 In the return made to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in 1834, the Population is stated to be only 35.