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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: WOODKIRK. Church dedication: OR WEST ARDSLEY. -SAINT MARY. Church type: Perpetual Curacy.
Area, 2,250 acres. Agbrigg wapentake, L.D. -Population, 1,450; Church-room, 500; Net value, £265. -Formerly a cell to Nostell Priory.Patron and impropriator, the Earl of Cardigan.
In Pope Nicholas's Taxation, the Church of Woodkirk is valued at £10 per annum. In the Parliamentary Survey, vol. xviii. page 320, it is stated : " The Lord Savill allows to the present minister £30 per annum, but we conceive that payment arbitrary. All the tithes are the inheritance of the Lord Savill."
Augmented, in 1721, with £200, to meet a benefaction from Messrs. Copley and Hodgson of lands worth £10 per annum.
An Inclosure Act was passed 7th Geo. IV.
The glebe house is fit for residence.
The Register Books commence in 1652.
Charities:
Greenwood's Hospital, for three poor women, founded by Richard Greenwood, by deed, dated 28th August 1593, and endowed with a rentcharge of 20s., and augmented with an annuity of 20s. under the will of William Naylor, dated 22nd April 1682.Taylor's charity. Rent-charge of 5s., distributed to the poor in bread.
Joshua Scholefield's charity, by will, dated 27th January 1807. Dividends of £121. 0s. 7d. three and a half reduced, for educating children of the name of Scholefield or Kitson. -Vide 16th Report, page 406.
Post town: Wakefield.
References:
Mon. Ang., vol. vi. page 99. Abp. Sharp's MS., vol. L, page 178. Scatcherd's Morley, page 214. Torre's MS., page 25.
Further information:
WOODKIRK PRIORY. -In this parish was a Priory of Austin Friars, 7 founded temp. Henry II. by William Earl Warren and others. It was a cell to Nostell Priory.
George Lawton in 1842..
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