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

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.

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

The place: WHELDRAKE.     Church dedication: SAINT HELEN.     Church type: Rectory in charge.

Area, 5,010 acres. Ouse and Derwent wapentake *1. -Population, 691 *2; Church-room, sufficient ; Net value, £474. -In Wheldrake are ten carucates of land (where twelve made a knight's fee), and paid 2s. rent per annum.

The Abbot of Fountains held the town of Richard Malbys, and he of the heirs of Percy, and they of the King in capite.

The Church is an ancient Rectory, and was given to the Monks of Wartre, and they were a long time patrons thereof, till 9 Kalend. October, A.D. 1268, they submitting the three Churches of Lund, Burnham, and this of Wheldrake, all which were of their patronage, to the ordination of Archbishop Giffard, who asking them which of those Churches they liked best, upon their answer, that they best liked the Church of Lund, he immediately appropriated that Church to them, and required them to confer upon him and his successors the patronage of the two other Churches, which they did accordingly under their common seal ; and from thenceforward the Archbishops of York have always collated to these two Churches.

Valued in Pope Nicholas's taxation, at £20; in the King's books, at £25. 18s. 2d. per annum ; Synodals and Procurations, 9s. 6d. *3; and in the Parliamentary Survey, vol. xvii. page 303, at £140 per annum.

A mortgage of £968. 4s. 7d. under Gilbert's Act will cease in 1844.

An Inclosure Act was passed 9th Geo. III.

1st July 1715, faculty to make certain repairs and alterations in the tithe-barn, which in the late violent storms had been wholly uncovered, and in many parts of it much damaged and shattered.

A faculty was granted 12th December 1778, to rebuild the parsonage-house, and it has been subsequently rebuilt under Gilbert's Act ; and in 1834 it was returned as fit for residence.

The Register Books commence in 1603.

Charities:
The Parish School. This is kept in a room in the church-yard, to which a small house, for the residence of the master, is attached. The master is appointed by the parishioners. He receives a salary of £12. 8s. a year, under the three benefactions next mentioned, and instructs in reading, writing, and arithmetic, nineteen free scholars, nominated by the minister and churchwardens.

The benefactions are, 1st - Thomas and James Scawin's rent charge of £5 per annum, by deed, in 1761, for teaching ten poor children ; 2ndly, Silvester Walker's, £2. 8s. per annum, for teaching four poor children ; 3rdly, Thomas Cling-and's gift, by will, dated 30th June 1820, interest of £100, for teaching five poor boys.

The Hemingbrough Estate. -Rent of moiety of the 35a. of land at Brackenholme, near Hemingbrough, purchased with £100 left by the Rev. Dr. George Parish, for apprenticing children ; £30 left by Dr. Samuel Terrick ; £20 given by Richard Morris ; £50 left by the Rev. Dr. Charles Blake ; and £33 borrowed. At the time of the Report, the land was let for £18 per annum, of which £8. 16s. was appropriated to apprenticing one boy, £2. 10s. distributed by the minister, and £6. 14s. by the churchwardens and overseers.

George Haxby's gift. Interest of £50 to the poor, distributed by the churchwardens.

Silvester Walker's rent charge of £7 per annum, by deed, enrolled 26th July 1775. One shilling is expended every Sunday in bread among poor women, not more than twelve, or less than eight, in number ; £2. 8s. per annum to the schoolmaster, for teaching four poor children to read and write ; and £1. 19s. for coats (drab-coloured coats, with blue collars) for three poor men, and 1s. for carriage of the cloth from York. None to be clothed two years in succession. -Vide 12th Report, page 652.

Post town: York.

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References:
Torre's MS., page 407. Abp. Sharp's MS., vol. iii. page 10. Mon. Ang., vol. v. pages 313. 315. Bawdwen's Domesday Book (Languelt), page 118. Burton's Monasticon, pages 191. 280. 382. 384. Gent's Ripon, page 2.

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Notes:
*1 Langwith is within Peter liberty, and in the spiritual jurisdiction of the Dean and Chapter of York.

*2 Viz. Langwith, 44; and Wheldrake, 647. -In 1834, the Population was returned at 695.

*3 The Valor Ecc. specifies tithes, mansion, and glebe land. -Page 97, col. 2.