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

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.

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

The place: SHIPTON.     Church dedication: CHAPEL.

Harthill wapentake. Holme Beacon. -Population, 348, vide Market Weighton *1; Chapel-room, 250; Net value, vide Market Weighton.

Patron, vide Weighton.

In the Parliamentary Survey, vol. xvii. page 360, it is stated to be " A good Chapel, fit to be a parish of itself."

A.D. 1422,. right of sepulture was granted, paying 2d. for every corpse to the Vicar of Weighton, and to the fabric of the Church 4d., if the man that died had a plough ; but if he was only a girs man, then only 2d.

An Inclosure Act was passed 13th Geo. III.

No return as to glebe house.

The Register Books commence in 1675, but they are imperfect, and in parts illegible. -Vide transcripts in the Prebendal Registry.

Charities:
The Free School, founded by the will of John Hutchinson, dated in 1714, and surrender by Elizabeth Barker and John Barker, dated in 1742. Ten free scholars are taught reading and writing ; four of them from Shipton, and six from Market Weighton. The master instructs several others, who are not free scholars. The boys that are free scholars are also supplied with blue caps, under the gift of Thomas Meedson, in 1707, of a rent charge of 10s. School endowment: two rents-charge of £7. 14s. per annum.

Doles. -Unknown, rent charge, 19s. 8d.; and Thomas Wood's, 5s., are distributed among the poor with the sacrament-money at Christmas. -Vide 12th Report, page 645.

Post town: Market Weighton.

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References:
Torre's MS. (Peculiars), page 802. Abp. Sharp's MS., vol. ii. page 97. Bawdwen's Domesday Book (Epton), page 12.

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Notes:
*1 Returned at 300 in 1834.