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

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.

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

The place: HUMBLETON.     Church dedication: ST. PETER.     Church type: Discharged Vicarage.

Area, 6,110 acres. Holderness wapentake, M.D. -Population, 579 *1; Church-room, 300; Net value, £230. -This Church was given to the Abbey of Thornton-upon-Humber, in the county of Lincoln, and was appropriated thereto, and a Vicarage ordained therein.

Torre does not give the endowment. Archbishop Sharp says, there have been no instituted Vicars here for these hundred years, but in 1789 William Aked was presented, since which there has been a regular succession.

Patron, the Lord Chancellor.

Impropriator, Lord Hotham.

The Church is valued in Pope Nicholas's taxation, at £16; in the King's books, the Vicarage is valued at £10. 1s. 0½d., after deducting pension of 13s. 4d. to the Abbey of Thornton ; and in the Parliamentary Survey, vol. xvii. page 244, it is stated : " Fitting, parish of Humbleton ; Vicarage, worth £13. 6s. 4d. per annum."

Augmented in 1748, with £200; in 1771, with £200; and in 1802, with £200 -all by lot.

" There is nothing preserved to the Vicar but the Easter offerings and petit tithes of orchards, geese, pigs, wolf or willow tops, bees, pigeon cotes, and mortuaries, and twopence the pound each servant's wages. The whole demandable profits of the Vicar do not amount to £6 or £7 a year : it hath no glebe. It hath always been held under sequestration since the Reformation, because there is almost nothing left for the Vicar. It is in the Queen's gift. It is a large parish, consisting of four towns, besides the Chapel of Elsternwick, viz., Humbleton, Danthorpe, Fit-line, and Flinton, all of them impropriated. The Church is a stately ancient fabric, and admirably well lighted. Whatever this Church hath lost by the poor condition of the Curates, and the power of impropriators and others, it never had any augmentation or benefaction by any person bestowed upon it." Signed, " Tho. Thompson, Curate." -Notitia Parochialis, No. 818.

26th April 1348, William Archbishop of York granted license to hold the feast of the Dedication on the day after St. Martin's, in winter, which was before held on the morrow after St. Bartholomew, and so fell in time of harvest, to their great hindrance.

An Inclosure Act was passed 46th Geo. III.

The glebe house is fit for residence. The Register nooks commence in 1577.

Charities:
Francis Heron's charity, by will, dated 20th January 1718. Rent of 49a. 1r. of land, let, at the time of the Report, for £70 per annum, for teaching such poor children as should be esteemed proper objects for the charity by the sixteen men and sidesmen chosen for regulating the Church-rates in the said parish, or the major part of them, who appoint a schoolmaster for teaching the said children reading and writing ; and the residue of the estate to the churchwardens of Humbleton and the churchwarden of Flinton, with power to collect the rents by turns each his year, to let the premises, with the consent of the major part of the sixteen men aforesaid, and to account to them yearly for the same ; and 20s. per annum to the minister for an anniversary sermon on some subject of charity on the Sunday next after the testator's funeral, unless the anniversary day should fall on a Sunday, and then the sermon to be preached on that day-notice to be given the Sunday before ; and the residue that remains in the hands of the churchwardens to be placed out at interest, and employed by the churchwardens, with the consent of the major part of the sixteen men aforesaid, in putting apprentice to some trade any boy or boys of the townships of Flinton, Humbleton, and Fitling-Flinton to have always the precedency ; with power to the said churchwardens, by the advice aforesaid, for repairing the houses at Flinton as often as need shall require. The testator's widow died in 1734, when the churchwardens took and continued in possession of the estate until 1742 ; but upon an action being brought by Thomas Heron, who claimed as heir-at-law, the churchwardens were advised they could not defend the action, and suffered judgment to go by default : but a suit, however, was afterwards brought in the Court of Chancery (the Attorney-General v. Thomas Heron), in which the will was established ; and by decree of that Court, dated 25th February 1745, the estate was ordered to be conveyed to trustees, to be approved by the Master, on the trusts of the will ; and by deed, dated 3rd and 4th May 1790, the premises became vested in Sir Robert Darcy Hildyard, Bart., and four others; as trustees, of whom, at the Report, only Simon Hornor, Esq. and John Rainer were then living ; but it was in contemplation to appoint others, and to have a new conveyance executed. The master receives £25 per annum for instructing eighteen poor children, viz., six from each of the townships of Flinton, Sutton, and Humbleton, in reading, writing, and the Church Catechism. The number of scholars was increased from twelve to eighteen in 1810. -The Commissioners reported, that there were two other small townships within the parish, which, up to the time of their Report, had received no benefit from this charity ; but the trustees contemplated that they would also receive some children from those townships, and augment the master's stipend ; that the residue was applied in apprenticing poor children of both sexes of Fitling, Flinton, and Humbleton, with premiums of five guineas for the boys, and three guineas for the girls. These sums were also paid, when no apprentices, to children of either sex on going to service ; and by the accounts of the charity, it appeared that in 1820 four boys and two girls were put out, and in 1821 and 1822 two boys and one girl respectively, who received the like premiums ; and that the benefit of this charity was confined to the townships of Flinton, Flitton, and Humbleton. -Balance in hand, at the time of the Report, £183. 18s. 8d.

Meadley's charity. rent charge of 10s. per annum to poor widows of Flinton at Easter. The Commissioners reported, that there were no writings to show when or by whom the charity was given. The money is distributed by the owner of the estate himself. -Vide 9th Report, page 765.

Post town: Hull.

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References:
Torre's MS., page 1487. Abp. Sharp's MS., vol. ii. page 167. Bawdwen's Domesday Book (Humelton), pages 175; (Danetorp), 59. 175; (Fidlinge), 175; (Flintone), 59. 175. Burton's Monasticon, page 223.

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Notes:
*1 Viz. Danthorpe, 37 ; Elstronwick, 153 ; Fitting, 103; Flinton,126; and Humbleton, 160. -In 1839, the population (exclusive of El-stronwick) was returned at 439.