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

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.

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

The place: SETTRINGTON.     Church dedication: ALL SAINTS.     Church type: Rectory in charge.

Area, 5,540 acres. Buckrose wapentake. -Population, 779 *1; Church-room, 500; Net value, £1,045. -The manor of Settrington was held by the noble family of the Bygods, Earls of Norfolk, and in a younger branch continued of knight's degree.

It was held of the King in capite, as of his Crown, by the service of one knight's fee, rendering to the King per annum 12d. as a fine to the wapentake of Buckrose, on the feast of the Purification of our Lady.

There was a Chantry here, which was valued at the Dissolution at £5. 6s. 8d. per annum, and another at £4 per annum.

The patronage of this Rectory is now in the executors of the Earl of Bridgewater. There was once a Vicarage, but it was consolidated with the Rectory, non. April, 1249.

Valued in Pope Nicholas's taxation at £41. 6s. 8d., and in his new taxation at £21. 6s. 8d.; in the King's books at £42. 12s. 6d.; Synodals 95., Procurations 7s. 6d., Thraves 5s. 4d.; and in the Parliamentary Survey, vol. xvii. page 424, at £250 per annum ; and the Commissioners recommended that " Scagglethorpe and Thorpe Bassett be united into one parish, being but one mile distant, and the way very good."

Inclosure Acts *2 were passed 12th Geo. I. (confirming awards for inclosing Scagglethorpe), and 37th Geo. III.

14th July 1731, a faculty was granted to make certain alterations in the Church.

The glebe house is fit for residence.

The Register Books commence in 1559. Chasm 1654-1687.

Charities:
Topham's charity. Vide General Charities.

The Lady's dole. The yearly sum of 15s. is payable to the poor out of an estate at Settrington, which belonged to the late Sir Mark Sykes, Bart. The payment is regularly made about Easter, and the amount is distributed, by the name of the Lady's Dole, among poor widows selected by the overseers. No account can be given of the origin of the charity. -Vide 16th Report, page 404.

Post town: Malton.

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References:
Torre's MS., page 735. Abp. Sharp's MS., vol. ii. page 122. Bodleian MS. No. 5101. Ashmolean MS. No.8518. Bawdwen's Domesday Book, (Sendriton) page 123, (Scachetorp) page 83.

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Notes:
*1 Viz. Scagglethorpe 252, and Settrington 527. In 1834, returned at 804.

*2 Being the first Yorkshire Inclosure Act.