Hide

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

hide
Hide
Hide

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.

Source=h:/!Genuki/RecordTranscriptions/ERY/ERYChCollection.txt

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

The place: SKIDBY.     Church dedication: ST. MICHAEL.     Church type: Unaugmented perpetual Curacy.

Area, 1,250 acres. Harthill wapentake. Hunsley Beacon. Population, 315; Church-room, 250 *1 ; Net value, vide Cottingham. -The Archbishop of York held in Skidby five carucates of land, of which the house of St. Giles held one oxgang in frankalmoigne, and the Chapter of St. Peter in York held five oxgangs.

This Church was accounted a Chapel dependant on Cottingham, the Rector whereof used to assign the same, together with the tithes garbs thereunto belonging, to a Chaplain during life, for serving the Cure.

" This estate is," says Archbishop Sharp, " I suppose, now in the Wartons of Beverley, who put in a Curate, to whom the Bishop of Chester's lessee pays £20 per annum. Part of the tithes belong to Trinity College."

Patron and impropriator, vide Cottingham.

Valued in 1707, at £20; in the Parliamentary Survey, vol. xvii. page 351, it is stated : " The Minister has the small tithes, £5;" -and in 1818, at £20 per annum.

Inclosure Acts were passed 25th and 33rd Geo. III.

No glebe house in 1818. No return in 1834.

The Register Books commence in 1723. They are in bad preservation.

Charity:
The School, founded by Mr. John Marshall, by will, in 1803. £150 to be laid out in stock, which has been invested in navy five per cents., but the amount thereof is not stated. The master is appointed by the minister and churchwardens, and instructs seven or eight children, besides other scholars. The school-house was erected, by means of a subscription in 1813, on ground belonging to Trinity College, Cambridge, given for the purpose, subject to an acknowledgment of 1s. per annum. -Vide 9th Report, page 745.

Post town: Beverley.


References:
Torre's MS., page 1358. Abp. Sharp's MS., vol. ii. page 51. Bawdwen's Domesday Book (Schitebi), page 55.


Notes:
*1 In 1818, the Church-room was returned at 283.


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