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

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.

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

The place: FOSTON ON THE WOLDS.     Church dedication: ST. ANDREW.     Church type: Discharged Vicarage.

Area, 4,560 acres. Dickering wapentake. -Population, 715 *1; Church-room, 600; Net value, £102. -The Manor of Foston belonged to Carle previous to the Conquest, when it was granted to William de Percy. There was then a Church and a mill.

Pope Nicholas III. confirmed the agreement between the Prior and Convent of Bridlington and Robert de Scar-leburg, Rector of Foston, about certain tithes.

The Church was the King's, and continued to be a Rectory, till, being purchased by William de la Pole, it was by him granted to the Priory of Carthusians of Hull, to which it was appropriated, and a Vicarage ordained therein 18th May 1381. -Vide also a composition for tithes at Brigham, dated 4th August, 1512. After the Dissolution, the Crown presented till 1635, after which there were no presentations till 1788, when Henry Dawkins presented, and in 1803 the Crown presented by reason of lapse. The patronage is now in the Rev. R. Otterburn.

5 Id. April, A.D. 1315, an inhibition issued under the seal of the Archbishop, that no person should adore the image of St. Mary, newly placed in the Church of Foston ; whither a great concourse of simple people flocked annually, and in pretence of the said image made their oblations in money and in other things.

The Church is valued in Pope Nicholas's taxation, at £33. 6s. 8d.; in the King's Books, the Vicarage is valued at £15. 8s. 6d.; Synodals, 4s.; Procurations, 7s. 6d.; in the Parliamentary Survey, vol. xvii. page 399, it is stated : " Impropriation worth £146, out of which £17 is paid to the Minister ; " and in 1818, at £36 per annum.

A Chantry is named in the Valor Ecc.

Augmented in 1782, with £200; in 1792, with £200; and in 1824, with £1,200, from the Parliamentary grant-all by lot.

There was an unreported Decree in the Exchequer, as to the tithes of Foston, in Trinity Term 11th Car. II.

28th June 1824, faculty to re-pew the Church, and erect a gallery.

An Inclosure Act was passed 6th Geo. III. (Brigham).

No glebe house.

The Register Books commence in 1653.

Charities:
Ann Walker's charity, by will, dated in 1717. A cottage, with rooms for three poor widows, and a rent charge of 30s. per annum, which is divided among the widows.

Poor's Money. The sum of £18 is placed out, and the interest distributed to the poor. The sum was originally £20, but £2 have been lost.

Gembling's and Kelk's gifts. Interest of £5 and £1 (but it appears the latter has been laid out in repairing the poor house), paid to poor persons at Easter. -Vide 9th Report, page 734.

Post town: Driffield.

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References:
Torre's MS., page 1365. Abp. Sharp's MS., vol. ii. page 201. Bawdwen's Domesday Book (Fostane), page 171; (Bringeham), page 82; (Ghemelinge), page 57 ; (Chelche), pages 30. 57.

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Notes:
*1 Viz. Brigham, 151. Foston on the Wolds, 308. Gembling, 78; and Great Kelk, 178.

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Other information:
KELK MAGNA. -Here was a Chantry, which was valued at the Dissolution at £4. 1s. 4d. per annum.

The Chapel of Magna Kelk is named in the Endowment, and the Prior was bound to find a Chaplain to serve at certain times therein.

BRIGHAM. Here was also a Chantry, valued at £4 per annum.