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

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.

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

The place: BUBWITH.     Church dedication: ALL SAINTS.     Church type: Discharged Vicarage.

Area, 10,460 acres. Harthill wapentake. Holme Beacon *1. Population, 1,385 *2; Church-room, 1,000; Net value, £102. -In Spaldington, in this parish, Peter Lord Mauley held three carucates and one oxgang and a half in fee, all which Russell Walter Bethell and the heirs of John del Haym held of German le Hay, who held the same of the said Lord Mauley.

In Harlethorpe, the Bishop of Durham held one carucate (here twelve made a knight's fee) by knight's service of the King in capite, and no rent.

This Church was a Rectory of two medieties, each of which had a Vicarage ordained therein in 1365. The one mediety belonged to the Dean and Chapter of York, being given to them by Guaisn de Bubwith, temp. Henry II.; upon the appropriation thereof to their common a Vicarage was settled, but when does not appear. Of this mediety, the Dean and Chapter are patrons. The other mediety was, by John de Mowbray, A.D. 1369, given to the Abbey of Byland, to which it was appropriated, and on the Dissolution, the patronage of this mediety came to the Crown.

The Crown seems to have but seldom exercised its right to present to its mediety. It presented Robert Blakey in 1689. In 1713, Robert Taylor was Vicar of one mediety, and Curate of the other. 1729, John Burton collated by the Dean and Chapter, George Ion by ditto, and John Wilkinson by ditto.

On the 17th November, A.D. 1375, the Chapter of York granted leave to William de Feriby, farmer of the farm of Bubwith, to give and assign to the Vicar of the Church one place out of his rectory, or mansion-house of the Rectory, against the Church, to be erected by the Vicar, and by him and his successors held for ever.

Burton gives the particulars of the endowment.

The Dean and Chapter of York are the impropriators.

Torre gives a catalogue of the Vicars. Gilbert Tyson, standard-bearer to the Conqueror, gave two carucates of land at Bubwith to Selby Monastery.

The Priory of Ellerton had lands, &c., at Spaldington.

The Church is valued in Pope Nicholas's taxation, at £26. 13s. 4d.; in the King's books, one mediety of the Vicarage at £7. 2s. 4d., and the other mediety at £8. 0s. 4d.; in the Parliamentary Survey, vol. xvii. page 367, and vol. xviii. pages 111-126, it is stated : " Vicarage worth £13.6s. 8d. Spaldington and Willitoft to be united and made a parish, and Willitoft to be the parish Church." There were then two Chapels ;-and in 1818, at £112. 17s. 11d. per annum.

Augmented in 1760, with £200 (first mediety) ; and in 1792, with £200 (second mediety) -both by lot.

" Eight towns and hamlets, all impropriated, except Gunby pays no tithes, only pays 5s. 6d. per annum to the Vicar of Bubwith, in lieu of all tithes. The Vicarage is endowed with Easter dues and all small tithes, and half the wool and lamb, and an augmentation of £10 per annum from the Dean and Chapter, to whom half of the impropriated tithes belong. All the impropriators receive the tithes alternately. Bubwith is a mediety." Signed, " Timothy Smith, Vic." -Notitia Parochialis, No. 1041.

A mortgage, under Gilbert's Act, of £300 will cease in 1836.

Inclosure Acts were passed 2nd and 3rd Wm. IV.

Part of the parish was anciently considered to be within the jurisdiction of the Dean and Chapter of York.

11 th March 1790, faculty to re-pew the Church.

5th May 1798, confirmation of allotments of pews.

The glebe house is fit for residence.

The Register Books commence in 1623.

Charities:
James Turner's charity, in 1714. Six acres of land, let, at the time of the Report, for eight guineas per annum ; which rent (with the exception of 10s. 6d. to the minister for a sermon on Low Sunday) is distributed on St. Thomas's day among poor widows and other industrious poor of the whole parish.

Hotham's Charity Land. Eleven acres. The rents are distributed at Christmas and Whitsuntide amongst widows and other poor of the townships, in sums of 1s. to 10s., at their discretion.

Wood's dole, vide Pocklington. 3s. 4d. per annum.

Lost charity. 6s. 8d. per annum to the poor. No account of the receipt of the money since 1754. -Vide 10th Report, page 655.

Post town: York.

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References:
Torre's MS. (Peculiars), page 999. Abp. Sharp's MS. vol. ii. pages 17-25. Bawdwen's Domesday Book (Bubuid), page 192 ; (Briston 1, 192; (Fulcartorp), 77.185. 191, 192 ; (Spellenton), 77 ; (Gripetorp), 185. 192 ; (Wilgetot), 77. 185. 192. Burton's Monasticon, pages 261. 331. 392. Wood's Bodleian MSS., No. 5101.

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Notes:
*1 Partly within the liberty of St. Peter of York.

*2 Viz. Breighton, 204; Bubwith, 461 ; Foggathorpe, 128; Gribthorpe and Willitoft, 108; Harlthorpe, 105 ; and Spaldington, 352. -In 1834, the Population was returned at 1,372. The Population decreased 70 since 1821, which was attributed to emigration.

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Other information:
SPALDINGTON. -(Parish of Bubwith.) -Here was a Chantry, which was valued at the Dissolution at £4. 13s. 4d. per annum.

WILLITOFT. -(Parish of Bubwith.) -The Chapel of Willoughtoft is mentioned in the endowment of the Vicarage of Bubwith.

Burton's Monasticon, page 331.