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

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.

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

The place: NORTH FERRIBY.     Church dedication: ALL SAINTS.     Church type: Discharged Vicarage.

Area, 3,760 acres. Hullshire wapentake. -Population, 823 *1; Church-room, 300; Net value, £163.

The Church was given by William de Vescy to his new founded Priory of North Ferriby, of the order of the Knights Templars, to whom it was appropriated, and a Vicarage ordained therein, 2 Non. Maij 1332.

Patron and impropriator, W. W. Wilkinson, Esq.

The Church is valued in Pope Nicholas's taxation at £33. 6s. 8d.; in the King's books, the Vicarage is valued at £8. 13s. 4d.; and in 1818, at £96 per annum.

Augmented in 1802, with £200; and in 1814, with £1,400, from the Parliamentary grant, -both by lot ; in 1818, with £300 from the same grant, to meet benefactions of £100 from the Rev. John Scott, the Vicar, and £100 from Mrs. Pyncombe's trustees ; and in 1820, with £300, and £300 from the same grant, to meet benefaction of £200 from Sir Robert Peel, Bart., the then patron.

A decree in the Exchequer in Trinity Term, 13th Jac. I. as to tithes, is unreported.

9th February 1776, faculty to erect a gallery.

3rd April 1819, ditto to erect another gallery.

An Inclosure Act was passed 5th Geo. IV.

No glebe house.

The Register Books commence in 1695.

Charities:
Luke Lillington's charity, by will, dated 5th November 1773. Dividends on £333. 6s. 8d., three per cent. consols, for teaching ten poor children reading and writing.

Sir Henry Etherington, Bart.'s charity, by deed, dated 14th February 1781. Rent charge of £11. 1s. per annum ; £10, part thereof, for teaching 10 poor children, boys and girls, reading, writing, and accounts ; and the remaining sum of £1. 1s. to the minister for reading the deed every Whitsunday, after the sermon.

Thomas Walker's dole, by will, dated 22d November 1596. Rent charge of 20s. per annum, to the poor of North Ferriby and Swanland. Payment now refused, as the churchwardens are unable to identify the property.

TOWNSHIP OF SWANLAND. -Nathaniel Woodmansey's gift, by will, dated 29th July 1719. Rent of 1a. 1r. of one half to the Presbyterian minister of Swanland, and the remainder to the schoolmaster.

Jeremiah Turner's charity, by will, dated 14th July 1789. Dividends on £815. 16s. 1d. navy five per cents. to the minister of Swanland and his clerk, to be chosen by the men communicants for that purpose, to officiate every Lord's day in the old Chapel at Swanland-the minister to keep the testator's tomb and tombstone, in North Ferriby Churchyard, in good repair. The dividends on £204. 6s. 10d., part of the said £815. 16s. 1d., to be paid to the minister's clerk, who should act as schoolmaster, for which he teaches twelve poor children, between the ages of six and twelve years, reading and writing. The children are appointed by the minister. -Vide 9th Report, page 814.

Post town: South Cave.

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References:
Torre's MS., page 1091. Abp. Sharp's MS., vol. ii. page 53. Burton's Monast., page 56. Mon. Angl., vol. vi. page 589. Tickell's Hull, page 880. Bawdwen's Domesday Book (Ferebi), pages 77. 184.

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Notes:
*1 Viz. North Ferriby, 345; and Swanland, 478. In 1834, the Population was returned at 912.

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Other information:
SWANLAND. -There was anciently a Chapel here, and 4d. is still charged.

Burton's Monasticon, page 383.

PRIORY. -An Austin Priory was founded at North Ferriby, in the suppressed preceptory of Knights Templars, which was of the foundation of the Lord Eustace Vescy.