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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: SKIPWITH.     Church dedication: ST. HELEN.     Church type: Discharged Vicarage *1.

(Peculiar.) -Area, 5,590 acres. Ouse and Derwent wapentake. Population, 648 *2; Church-room, 400; Net value, £300. -Here was a Church and a Priest at the time of Domesday Survey.

In the town of Skipwith were three carucates of land, which answered for the fourth part of a knight's fee ; whereof two carucates were held of the fee of the Bishop of Durham, who held the same of the King in capite ; and one carucate was held of the heirs of Baldwin Wake, who held the same of the King in capite.

North Duffield contains eight carucates of land (where ten made a knight's fee) ; whereof six carucates and two oxgangs were held of the Bishop of Durham by knight's fee, which said Bishop held them of Henry de Chamber. layne's heirs for a knight's fee, which same heirs held them of the Bishop by the same service, and the Bishop of the King in capite.

And six other oxgangs of land (whereof twelve made a knight's fee) were held of the heirs of Peter de la Hay, who held them of Peter de la Malolaco, and he of the King in capite, by knight's service.

Menthorpe contains four carucates, whereof two were held by William de Aton, of the tee of the Bishop of Durham, who held the same of the King in capite, by no rent.

The residue were held of the heirs of Baldwin Wake, who held them of 'the King in capite, by 5d. rent.

The Church was an ancient Rectory belonging to the Prior and Convent of Durham, till it was given to be a Prebend in the Collegiate Church of Howden, to which it was appropriated, and a Vicarage ordained therein, 4 Kal. Feb. 1279.

At the Dissolution the patronage came to the Crown, which has presented to the Vicarage ever since, but the parish is still within the Peculiar Jurisdiction of Howden.

The Church is valued in Pope Nicholas's taxation, at £34; Vicaria ejusdem.

An Inclosure Act was passed 49th Geo. III. (North Duffield.)

No glebe house.

The Register Books for baptisms and burials commence in 1670, and for marriages in 1710.

Charities:
Rents-charge. 20s. per annum ; 4s. per annum ; and 4s. per annum. Donors unknown, amount distributed in coals.

Rev. Joseph Nelson's charity, by will, dated 21st May 1813, and proved in 1817. Dividends on £451. 2s. 8d. three per cent. consols, for educating poor children. Thirteen free scholars, who may require to be taught Greek and Latin. No desire had been expressed at the time of the Report, by the parents, to have any thing more taught than reading and accounts.

Lost Charity. £1 per annum, to the poor of North Duffield, under the will of William Andrie, and charged on lands there, formerly belonging to George Elmer. -Vide 10th Report, page 672.

Post town: York.


References:
Torre's MS. (Peculiars), page 1257. Abp. Sharp's MS., vol. iii. page 55. Bawdwen's Domesday Book (Shepewic), page 202. Burton's Monasticon, page 400.


Notes:
*1 There was anciently a Chapel at Duffield, within this parish.

*2 Viz. North Duffield, 344; and Skipwith, 304. In 1834, the population was returned at 300. Since 1821, the population decreased 100, in consequence of emigration. £8'; in the King's books, at £13. 6s. 6d. per annum; pension to the Vicars Choral of Howden, £4, and to the Prior of Durham, 13s. 4d.; and in the Parliamentary Survey, vol. xvii. page 307, it is stated : " Vicarage, £40; Impropriation, £143."


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