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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: KIRK ELLA.     Church dedication: ST. ANDREW.     Church type: Discharged Vicarage.

Area, 4,390 acres. Hullshire wapentake. -Population, 974 *2; Church-room, 375 ; Net value, £235. -There was a Church and a priest at Kirk Ella at the time of the Norman Survey.

The Church was given first by Gilbert de Tyson to the Abbey of Selby, but in Edward the Second's time, by licence from the King, conveyed by them to the Priory of Haltemprice in exchange for lands, to which Priory it was appropriated in 1343, and a Vicarage ordained therein 3rd May 1343. There was a new ordination 23rd October 1438.

The composition between the Church of Kirk Ella and Cottingham is given in Dugdale, folio 488. -Note from Johnson's MSS.

The patronage was given, at the Dissolution, to the Ellerkers, from whom it passed in 1686 to the Bradshaws, and in 1794 came to the Sykes's.

Patron and impropriator, R. Sykes, Esq.

The Church is valued in Pope Nicholas's taxation, at £46. 13s. 4d.; and in the King's books, the Vicarage is valued at £13. 2s. 8d. per annum.

" The Vicar is entitled to the small tithes arising in the townships of Tranby, Anlaby, and Walfreton, in the said parish." -Broadley v. Brocklebank, 4 Wood, page 90.

Inclosure Acts were passed 36th Geo. III. and 5th Geo. IV.

15th February 1806, faculty to erect gallery.

23rd April 1830, ditto to re-roof the Church and cover it with slate, and to erect a gallery, with power to sell the seats to the parishioners.

The glebe house is fit for residence.

The Register Books commence in 1558.

Charities:
Francis Wright's charity, by will, dated 6th June 1674. Rent of 8a. 0r. 37p. of land. 1s. 2d. a week distributed in bread every Sunday after the sermon amongst those that are in greatest need, and the remainder by the minister and churchwardens to the poor on Easter Sunday. At the time of the Report, there was a balance of £3. 10s. 8d. in hand.

John Marshall's charity, by will, dated 3rd January 1803. Dividends on £180. 16s. navy five per cents., distributed in bread to the poor on Sundays with that of Wright's charity, at the discretion of the minister and churchwardens. -Vide 9th Report, page 813.

Post town: Hull.


References:
Torre's MS., page 1337. Abp. Sharp's MS., vol. ii. page 54. Bawdwen's Domesday Book (Alvengi), pages 79. 184. 191. 201; (Umlouebi), 28. 77. 184. 191. 222. Burton's Monasticon, pages 315. 393. Tickell's Hull, page 885.


Notes:
*1 Alias Elveley.

*2 Viz. Anlaby, 398, of which a small part is in Hessle parish ; Kirk Ella, 285 ; West Ella, 102 ; and part of Willerby, 189. -In 1834, the Population was returned at 836.


Other information:
ANLABY. -Here the Abbot of St. Mary's, York, held three carucates of land.

And William Fitz Peter de Anlaby held one carucate of the Prior of Waltham.

And William de Midelton held another carucate of St. John of Beverley.

And John Legard held two oxgangs of the said St. John of Beverley-all of the fee of Mowbray.

Burton's Monasticon, page 313.

WILLARDBY. -Here the heirs of Stutevill held three carucates and six oxgangs of the King in capite, and John de Melsa two and a half carucates, whereof the Templars held two in frankalmoigne ; and Richard de Ros held two and a half oxgangs, and Robert Newton two oxgangs.

Burton's Monasticon, pages 242, 243, 244. 317. 363.

TRANBY. - The Prior of Watton held here half a knight's fee of William de Constable, by the rent of 5s.; and Richard de Anlaby held two and a half oxgangs of the fee of Vescy; and the Church is endowed with four oxgangs.


From the original book published by
George Lawton in 1842..
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by Colin Hinson. © 2013.