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

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.

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

The place: KIRKBURN.     Church dedication: SAINT MARY.     Church type: Discharged Vicarage.

Area, 6,320 acres. Harthill wapentake. Bainton Beacon. -Population, 489 *1; Church-room, 200; Net value, £82. - This Church was given by Robert de Bras to the Priory of Gisburne, to which it was appropriated, and a Vicarage ordained therein.

Patron, the Lord Chancellor.

Impropriators, Sir Tatton Sykes and others.

The Church is valued in Pope Nicholas's taxation, at £33. 6s. 8d.; in the King's books, the Vicarage is valued at £4. 10s. 2d.; in the Parliamentary Survey, vol. xvii. page 336, it is stated : " Curacy, £20; Impropriation, £132. No minister ;" -and in 1818, at £75 per annum.

Augmented in 1715, with £200; in 1753, with £200; in 1792, with £200; and in 1827, with £400 from the Parliamentary grant -all by lot.

" Tithe of corn, hay, wool, and lamb, impropriated. There belongs to the Vicarage the garth, with common, and a little close at Kirkburn, and Chapel garth at Southburn. Plow Pennies, i.e. a penny at Easter for every plow in the parish Handlaw, paid at Easter by tradesmen's servants and labourers, at 4d. in the pound. Mortuaries are paid. Surplice fees at a publication, 4d.; at a marriage, 2s.; at a churching, by husbandmen's wives, 10d.; by others, 1s.; burial in the Church-yard, 10d.; in the Church, 1s. 8d.; in the Quire, 3s. 4d.; at high altar, 3s. 4d. The small tithes through the parish are paid to the Vicarage, and tithe hay at Eastburn. The full value of the Vicarage, £8 yearly." -Notitia Parochialis, No. 1048.

Inclosure Acts were passed 33rd Geo. III. (Southburn), and 34th Geo. III. (Tibthorpe.)

The glebe house is fit for residence. The Register books commence in 1686.

Parochial Charities. -No return.

Post town: Driffield.

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References:
Torre's MS., page 1289. Abp. Sharp's MS., vol. ii. page 73. Bawdwen's Domesday Book (Austburne, Esebrune), page 13; (Sudburne), 13 ; (Tibetorp), pages 13. 29. 223. 233. Burton's Monasticon, page 347.

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Notes:
*1 Viz. Eastburn, 14; Kirkburn, 141 ; Southburn, 107 ; and Tibthorpe, 227. -1n 1834, the Population was returned at 529.

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Other information:
TIBTHORPE. -There was an ancient Chapel here, for which a Synodal of 4d. per annum is still charged.

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References:
Abp. Sharp's MS., vol. ii. page 73. Burton's Mon., page 353.