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

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ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.

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

The place: HEDON.     Church dedication: SAINT AUGUSTINE.     Church type: Discharged Rectory.*1.

Area, 1,440 acres. Holderness wapentake, M.D. -Population, 1,080; Church-room, 750 *2; Net value, £45. -The Vicar of Preston is Rector of this Church or Chapel of St. Augustine's, as annexed to his Vicarage, for he is instituted to both together.

Patron, the Archbishop of York.

Osbert, son of Walter de Frismere, gave all his land that Hugh, son of Tokeman, held in this territory, to the Priory of Bridlington. Richard Long, of Hedon, gave lands at Hedon to the Priory of Swine. John de Preston gave lands at Hedon to the Priory of Nunkeeling.

" In Hedon," says Mr. Torre, " are three Chapels, viz., St. Augustine's, St. Nicholas's, and St. James's, all belonging to the Sub-deanery of York, as appendant to the Church of Preston, and in that respect the Sub-dean hath jurisdiction over them all."

The Valor Ecclesiasticus mentions a Chantry in this Church of Hedon, valued at £3. 11s. 6d. per annum.

In A.D. 1267, 3rd Id: July, license was granted to Alice Falketon to build her an house in the chapel-yard of Saint Nicholas, therein to lead an anchoritess's life.

A.D. 1564, a composition was made between the Vicar of Preston and the inhabitants of the town and borough of Hedon concerning the finding the Curates to serve in the Church of Hedon.

Valued in 1707, at £18; in the Parliamentary Survey, vol. xvii. page 252, it is stated : " A parochial Chapel, depending upon Preston ;" -and in 1818, at £117 per annum.

Augmented in 1814, with £200 from the Parliamentary grant, by lot.

Jurisdiction. In the diocese of York, but said formerly to have been within the jurisdiction of the Sub-dean of York.

8th November 1808, faculty to erect additional sittings.

6th March 1829, ditto to erect a gallery.

21st March 1829, ditto to enlarge the gallery ; also to erect an organ.

The glebe house was returned in 1818 as unfit for residence, being " very small, only two rooms down stairs. No chambers, and no staircase." And in 1834, returned " unfit."

The Register Books commence in 1549.

Charities:
Sir Hugh Bethell, knight's gift, by will, dated in 1676. rent charge of 50s. per annum for the poor at Christmas, by the selection of the mayor and bailiffs of Hedon.

Mrs. Ann Watson's gifts, vide General Charities. £5 per annum to the minister ; £1 per annum to the schoolmaster ; 10s. per annum to the parish clerk ; and £1. 6s. per annum for bread, distributed on Sundays among six poor widows, chosen by the churchwardens.

Charity:
ouses or Hospitals. These consist of seven tenements, four of which are under one roof, for five poor freemen's widows, who receive from the mayor and bailiffs 3s. each per month, and one chaldron and a half of coals yearly amongst them ; and the remaining three for poor persons, under the order and appointment of the mayor, who, with the bailiffs as aforesaid, supply half a chaldron of coals yearly amongst the poor, and keep these tenements in repair. The charity is under the direction of the mayor and bailiffs, and is understood to have been founded by a Mr. Sagg ; but there are no writings relative to the building or endowment.

John Cockerill's gift, by will, dated in 1732. rent charge of £2. 12s. per annum, for 1s. worth of bread weekly, on or about the month of May, to twelve poor widows. -Vide 9th Report, page 760.

A post town.


References:
Torre's MS. (Peculiars), page 777. Abp. Sharp's MS., vol. ii. page 187. Mon. Angl., vol. vi. page 654. Frost's Hull, page 97. Thompson's Occ. Prom., page 125, &c. Burton's Monasticon, pages 56. 232. 253. 386.


Notes:
*1 Held as a Perpetual Curacy.

*2 350 additional sittings (of which 192 are free) have been procured, towards which the Society made a grant of £100.


Other information:
ST. MARY'S IN HEDON. -There was also a Church, dedicated to Saint Mary; for John Usflete, of Hedon, by will, dated 10th April 1505, and proved 11th June in the same year, gave his soul to God Almighty, Saint Mary, and All Saints, and his body to be buried in the Church of Saint Mary of Hedon.

HOSPITAL OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE.

-This Hospital was founded at Newton, near Hedon, for lepers, by Alan Fitz Osburne.


From the original book published by
George Lawton in 1842..
OCR and changes for Web page presentation
by Colin Hinson. © 2013.