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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: SKERNE.     Church dedication: PATRON SAINT NOT KNOWN.     Church type: Perpetual Curacy.

Area, 2,620 acres. Harthill wapentake. Bainton Beacon. -Population, 201 ; Church-room, sufficient; Net value, £71. -This was a Rectory, which was given to the Priory of Watton, to which it was appropriated, but no Vicarage seems to have been endowed.

Patron and impropriator, Richard Arkwright, Esq.

The Church is valued in Pope Nicholas's taxation, at £10; in 1707, the Curacy was valued at £13. 5s.; in the Parliamentary Survey, vol. xvii. page 326, it is stated : " Vicarage, £20; Impropriation, £50; Samuel Booth, Minister, preacheth after a fashion ;" -and in 1818, at £55. 10s. per annum.

Augmented in 1767, with £200, by lot; in 1771, with £200, to meet benefaction of £200 from Thomas Brown, Esq.; in 1827, with £200, by lot; and in 1829, with £200, to meet benefactions of £100 from Richard Arkwright, Esq., the patron, and £100 from Mrs. Pyncombe's trustees.

No glebe house.

The Register Books commence in 1561 ; but the entries of marriages from 1677 to 1680 illegible, and many years intervene without entries.

Charity:
The Poor Folks' Close. 5a. 2r. of land, let, at the time of the Report, for £4. 7s. 6d. per annum. The rents are added by the overseers to the poor's rates. The Commissioners reported that there was no evidence of any other mode of application having existed, and no evidence to show how the land was given or acquired. -Vide 9th Report, page 748.

Post town: Driffield.


References:
Torre's MS., page 1273. Abp. Sharp's MS., vol. ii. page 69. Bawdwen's Domesday Book (Schirne), pages 13.202. Burton's Monasticon, page 200.


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