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Data from the 'Collectio Rerum Ecclesiasticarum' from the year 1842.
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ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.
Source=h:/!Genuki/RecordTranscriptions/WRY/WRYChCollection.txtData from the 'Collectio Rerum Ecclesiasticarum' from the year 1842.
The place: SWINEFLEET. Church dedication: CHAPEL.
Osgoldcross wapentake, L. D. -Population, 1,055, vide Whitgift; Chapel-room, 300; Net value, £127.Patron, the Vicar of Whitgift ; impropriator, A. R. Worsop, Esq.
" Three miles from the parish Church. Way very bad. Two hundred families. To be made a parish Church." -Parliamentary Survey, vol. xviii. page 375.
Augmented, in 1754, with £200; in 1755, with £200; in 1782, with £200; in 1789, with £200; in 1792, with £200; and in 1814, with £1,000 from the Parliamentary grant -all by lot.
An Act was passed 32nd Geo. II. for an inclosure, and another, 33rd Geo. III., c. 108, for inclosure and drainage.
The manor, &c., formerly belonged to the Abbey of St. Mary, at York.
There is no glebe house.
The registers are entered in Whitgift parish. No marriages take place at Swinefleet.
Charities:
Town Land. Rent of 24a. 3r. 35p. of land, granted by Queen Elizabeth, together with two pews in the Chapel. £8 per annum is paid to the minister (he performing weekly, in lieu of occasional duty) ; £15 to a schoolmaster, for teaching twelve poor children reading, writing, and arithmetic ; residue to keeping up the banks of the fiver, and to other public purposes. -Vide 21st Report, page 608.Post town: Howden.
References:
Torre's MS. (Peculiars), page 1,396. Mon. Angl. vol. iv. page 1,644. Archbishop Sharp's MS., vol. i. page 302.
George Lawton in 1842..
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