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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: LOWTHORPE.     Church dedication: ST. MARTIN.     Church type: Perpetual Curacy.

Area, 1,960 acres. Dickering wapentake. -Population, 138; Church-room, 200 *1; Net value, £64.

A Church at Lowthorpe is mentioned in the Domesday Survey.

The town of Lowthorpe contained eight carucates of land, of which the Church is endowed with half a carucate. And one carucate and a half were held of the liberty of St. John of Beverley, and the residue, being six oxgangs, were held of the fee of Meynill, who held them of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and he of the King in capite, by no rent.

This was an ancient Rectory, belonging to the patronage of the Lowthorpes, then of the Heslertons, afterwards of the Hothams, and for above a century back of the St. Quintin family, and was appropriated to the College of Lowthorpe.

In A.D. 1333, this was made a Collegiate Church, consisting of a Rector, six chantry priests, and seven chaplains, all of which were to live in common, and had their several salaries assigned them, (the Rector by the last ordination being to receive no more than ten marks per annum for his private use,) besides revenues for their housekeeping.

A new ordination was made 9th February 1372.

There have been no institutions since 1579, the living being served as a Curacy.

Patron and impropriator, W. T. St. Quintin, Esq.

The Church is valued in Pope Nicholas's taxation at £16, and in his new taxation at £10. 13s. 4d.; in 1707, the Curacy was valued at £9. 3s. 8d.; and in 1818, at £67 per annum.

Augmented in 1749 with £200; and in 1766, with £200, -both by lot; and in 1780, with £200, to meet benefaction of £200 from Sir W. St. Quintin, Bart. and the Rev. Thomas Bowness.

A decree was made in the Exchequer, in Michaelmas Term, 36th Elizabeth, but which is not reported.

No glebe house.

The Register Books commence in 1546. No entries in 1553 1557, 1559, 1560.

Parochial Charities. -No return.

Post town: Driffield.


References:
Torre's MS. page 1017. Abp. Sharp's MS. vol. ii. page 203. Bawdwen's Domesday Book, (Loghetorp,) pages 31. 224. 239. Burton's Monast. page 235. Mon. Angl. vol. vi. page 1474. Prickett's Bridlington, page 126.


Notes:
*1 In 1818, the Church-room was returned for the then " whole Population" of 275.


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