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

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.

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

The place: ERGHAM.     Church dedication: ST. JOHN BAPTIST.

Area, 510 acres. Dickering wapentake. - Population, 29 *1; No Church; Net value, £21. -The town of Ergham contained four carucates of land, whereof William de Ergham held three carucates of the fee of Meynill, who held it of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and he of the King in capite, and rendered per annum 3s. Andrew Marshal gave an annual rent of 1s. 6d., to find a wax candle to burn at the mass of the blessed Virgin in this Church.

This was orginally a Chapel dependant upon Hunmanby, and was given therewith to the Abbey of Bardney, and a Vicarage was ordained therein in or about 1269. This, however, does not appear to have taken effect, for Ergham has been considered as a Rectory, and in the patronage of the Erghams, afterwards of the Ashes, then of the Constables, and then of Alderman Gregory, of Hull ; lapsed in 1715 and 1731, and has ever since been in the patronage of the Grimstones. The present patron is C. Grimstone, Esq.

Valued in Pope Nicholas's taxation, at £5. 3s. 4d.; new taxation, £3. 16s. 8d.; and in the King's books, at £4 per annum.

Augmented in 1714 with £200, and in 1749 with £200, --both by lot.

No glebe house.

Register Books. - Entries made at Bridlington.

Parochial Charities. -No return.

Post town: Hornsey.

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References:
Torre's MS., page 935. Abp. Sharp's MS., vol. ii. page 229. Bawdwen's Domesday Book (Ergun, or Argun), pages 18. 30. 93. 180. Burton's Monasticon, pages 72. 225. 332.

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Notes:
*1 In 1834, the Population was returned at 20.