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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: MARKET WEIGHTON.     Church dedication: ALL SAINTS.     Church type: Peculiar. Discharged Vicarage.

Area, 7,570 acres. Harthill wapentake. Holme Beacon *1. Population, 2,169 *2; Church-room, 650; Net value, £176. -This Church was given for a Prebend in the Cathedral Church of York by King Henry I., yet for sometime it was unjustly severed from them by the Prior and Convent of Durham, till A.D. 1230, upon the submission of the Prior and Convent of Durham and the Prior of Finchhall to the ordination of Walter Gray, Archbishop of York, he, by the assent of his Dean and Chapter, decreed that this Church, together with its Chapels and appurtenances, should be reduced to its former state, and restored to the Church of York, therein to remain a Prebend for ever ; and a Vicarage ordained therein in 1255. There is an augmentation of £20 per annum from the Prebendary.

Torre gives a catalogue of the Vicars.

Weighton was reckoned as a member of Cottingham, where John de Bello Campo held two carucates and a half of land.

Sir William de Ross gave a free passage for the carriages, &c. of the Canons of Ellerton over his lands, &c., from Hundegarthe, at Weighton, to Goodmanham.

See curious Correction Processes in 1403 and 1409.

Patron and impropriator, the Prebendary of Weighton in York Cathedral, who hath jurisdiction in the towns of Weighton, Shipton, and Erghes.

Valued in the King's books, at £4. 1s.; in the Parliamentary Survey, vol. xvii. page 359, and vol. xviii. page 102, it is stated : " Vicarage, £20;" - and in 1818, at £133 per annum.

An Inclosure Act was passed 13th Geo. III.

The glebe house is fit for residence.

The Register Books commence in 1653.

Charities:
The Church Estate. 84a. 0r. 31p. of land and three houses, let, at the time of the Report, for £35. 3s. per annum, for the maintenance and repairs of the parish Church.

Poor's Land. 28a. 0r. 20p. Rent distributed at Christmas and Midsummer among the poor, in sums from 2s. to 15s. each.

Constable's charity, vide Holme on Spaldingmoor. The yearly sum of £9. 5s., received out of the rent of the charity estate, is distributed among the poor, with the rent of the poor's land.

Doles. -Westwood's rent charge, £1; Robert Strumby's ditto, 10s.; Hide's ditto, 10s.; and Thomas Wood's ditto, 10s. Distributed as above.

Bread Charity. -William Smithson's and Thomas Breighton's gifts. Dividends on £175 three per cent. consols, applied in the purchase of bread, and distributed among poor persons on alternate Sundays.

TOWNSHIPS OF WEIGHTON AND SHIPTON.

Dorothy Barker's charity, by will, dated 20th August 1800. £600, now invested in the purchase of stock, producing an annual dividend of £22. 4s. Part thereof is applied in the providing ten fourpenny loaves to the poor of Shipton once a fortnight, and thirty fourpenny loaves to the poor of Market Weighton once a fortnight ; and the residue to the poor of Market Weighton and Shipton, at Easter and Christmas, for ever. -Vide 12th Report, page 645.

A post town.


References:
Torre's MS. (Peculiars), page 797. Abp. Sharp's MS., vol. ii. page 97. Bawdwen's Domesday Book (Wicstun, Widetun), pages 12. 155. 202 ; (Epton), 12. Burton's Monasticon, pages 119. 261.


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

*2 Viz. Shipton, 348; and Weighton, 1,821. -In 1834, the Population of Weighton was returned at 1,800, and Shipton at 300.


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