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

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.

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

The place: WELTON.     Church dedication: ST. HELEN.     Church type: Peculiar. Vicarage in charge.

Area, 2,380 acres. Howdenshire wapentake. -Population, 805 *1; Church-room, 400 *2; Net value, £383. -This Church is one of St. Cuthbert's Churches, and was of the patronage of the Prior and Convent of Durham till it came into the hands of the Neviles of Raby, who in 1439 got it appropriated to the Chantry in Lincoln Cathedral, founded for the soul of Catherine Duchess of Lancaster, and a Vicarage was ordained therein, 27th September 1439. It is endowed with the great tithes.

There was a Chantry in this parish, founded for the souls of King Edward II. and Archbishop Melton.

Patron, the Crown, by the Prime Minister.

Torre gives a catalogue of the Vicars.

The Church is valued in Pope Nicholas's taxation, at £28. 13s. 4d.; in the King's books, the Vicarage is valued at £25 per annum ; and in the Parliamentary Survey, vol. xvii. page 231, it is stated, there are " Seven oxgangs of glebe land, worth £28; also the Minister hath all tithe of Welton and Melton, worth yearly £172."

Inclosure Acts were passed 24th Geo. II., 11th Geo. III. (Melton), and 12th Geo. III.

The glebe house was returned in 1818 as unfit for residence, being " small and incommodious in every respect ;" and in 1834, was returned as unfit.

Nov. 1819, license granted to use a piece of ground, and a mausoleum erected thereon by Robert Raikes, Esq., as a private burial-place.

The Register Books commence in 1713 ; deficient for 1717, 1718, 1719, and 1720. -Vide transcripts in the Peculiar Registry.

Charities:
The White Bread Charity Land. Robert Mason, by surrender, dated 16th November 1694, appointed the sum of £1. 14s. 8d. out of divers lands and hereditaments in Welton, to be expended in the purchase of white bread for the poor of Welton ; and James Shaw, Esq., by his surrender, bearing date 17th April 1764, and will, dated 13th December 1764, gave all his interest in the surplus of the rents and profits of the same lands, for the following purposes :-two guineas per annum to the schoolmaster, for teaching six poor children to read and write ; and the residue of the rents is applied in occasional assistance to the poor in house-rent, coals, and medical relief, and sometimes in money weekly. -The Commissioners censured the directions of the deed as to the sums laid out in bread, and expected that the charity would henceforth be administered with more care and attention.

The Bull Ings and Poor's Land. 5a. 1r. 23p. of land, let, at the time of the Report, for £9. 10s. per annum, granted by an award, dated 1st May 1752, made under an Act passed 24th Geo. II. The Commissioners awarded to Robert Best and John Dilcock, the then constables, and other inhabitants of Welton, 3a. 0r. 22p. of Ings land, for the buying and keeping a bull for the use of the inhabitants, and 2A. la. 1 e. of land for the poor. The rents are divided in the proportion of two-thirds to Welton, and one-third to the township of Melton, to poor persons, by the overseers respectively -that to Welton being confined to poor persons not receiving collection. -The Commissioners reported, that from 1813 to the time of their Report, the rents had been included in one and the same account, for the benefit, as presumed, of Welton township only ; and they intimated that the rents ought to be divided, and applied as they used to be in 1787, and that the application in Merton should be according to established custom.

Randell's and Akam's gifts. £20 and £5. The interest (£1. 5s.) was formerly paid by a William Nelson, and applied for the benefit of the poor of Welton ; but about 1811 the money was paid in, and supposed to be applied to parochial purposes, no interest being now received therefrom.

Walter Stickney's benefaction, by will, dated 21st October £17. Interest of £5. 5s. for bread for the most needy poor, which is distributed in loaves (of three-pennyworth each), at the Church, on every Trinity Sunday, at the discretion of the minister and churchwardens. -Vide 10th Report, page 663.

Post town: South Cave.

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References:
Torre's MS. (Peculiars), page 1227. Abp. Sharp's MS., vol. ii. page 87. Bawdwen's Domesday Book (Welleton), pages 60, 61, 62. 77, 78. 80, 81. 155. 237, 238, 239.

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Notes:
*1 Viz. Melton, 133; Welton, 672. -In 1834, the Population was returned at 705.

*2 Estimated in 1818 at 500.