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

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.

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

The place: ELSTRONWICK.     Church dedication: PATRON SAINT NOT KNOWN.

Holderness wapentake, M.D. -Population, 153, vide Humbleton ; Church-room, 130; Net value, vide Humbleton. -2nd Kal. July, A.D. 1324, license was granted to the inhabitants of Elsternwick, at their own costs, to have a perpetual Chantry in the Chapel of Elsternwick three days in the week, for celebration of masses, hallowing the bread and water, administering to children and baptizing of infants, and churching of women, by a fit chaplain of their own.

And on the 8th July, 28th Henry VIII., the King's license was granted to consecrate the Chapel, that the inhabitants might hear divine service therein, partake of sacraments and sacramentals, and bury in the same, or chapel-yard thereof, so it was consecrated accordingly.

Patron and impropriator, vide Humbleton.

Valued in the Parliamentary Survey, vol. xvii. page 245, at £29. 12s. per annum, paid by the impropriator.

" Elsternwick is a Chapel to Humbleton. The Vicar of Humbleton is obliged to perform divine service once a month, and he is called for Elsternwick at the Visitation, and so are the wardens; repairs its own Chapel, and also pays one-fourth of the repairs of Humbleton Church. No separate register *1. Has tithe of wool and lamb and all other petit tithe, particularly by ancient custom, time out of mind, every man-servant and maid-servant pay twopence per pound for their yearly wages, besides a twopence, their offering at Easter to the Vicar of Humbleton. There is a piece of ground on the west side of the chapel-yard, commonly called the Vicar's Deall, which belongs also to the Vicars of Humbleton. The whole profits arising out of the Chapelry of Elsternwick to the Vicar of Humbleton do not exceed £4." Signed, " Tho. Thomson, Curate." -Notitia Parochialis, No. 803.

An Inclosure Act was passed 46th Geo. III.

No return as to glebe house.

Charities:
Poor's Estate. Rent of 9a. 0r. 16p. of land and five houses, let, at the time of the Report, for £18 per annum. These arise, and are mentioned in the Returns of Charitable Donations, made to Parliament in 1786, under the head of Elsternwick, which is a township in Humbleton, of land vested in the overseers, for the benefit of the poor, by a surrender from one Henry Gedney in 1668. The township of Elsternwick was inclosed under an Act passed 46th Geo. III., previous to which the overseers appear to have been in possession of some land in the open fields, being copyhold lands, held of the manor of Elsternwick, which they claimed to hold by the description of an oxgang, under the denomination of town lands. The property was formally awarded by the Commissioners to the heirs of Henry Gedney, but no claim being made by them, the lord of the manor got possession thereof, and did, by deed, dated 31st December 1818, convey the same to trustees, for the instruction of poor children of both sexes (at the time of the Report, eighteen), the boys in reading, and the girls in reading, knitting, and sewing. No child to be admitted without the approbation of the trustees, being children of such poor persons as have not property to the value of £100 or upwards, or who, not having property to that amount, do not pay rent for house and land higher than £8 per annum, and none to be admitted under the age of five, or continue therein after the age of twelve. Two-thirds of the rents are paid to the schoolmaster or schoolmistress, and of the other one-third 30s. is paid for books, and 20s. for fuel, for the school, and the residue to poor persons at Christmas, at the discretion of the trustees, such distributions to be made so as not to go in ease or reduction of the poor's rates ; but the Commissioners reported, that in 1818 the residue of the rents were applied in defraying the expenses incurred in building a school-room, of which sum £23. 13s. 3d. then (October 1822) remained to be discharged. -Vide 9th Report, page 766.

Post town: Hedon.

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References:
Torre's MS., page 1492. Abp. Sharp's MS., vol. ii. page 167.

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Notes:
*1 This appears to be still the case, as there is no return.