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

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.

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

The place: RUSTON PARVA.     Church dedication: PATRON SAINT NOT KNOWN.     Church type: Perpetual Curacy.

Area, 910 acres. Dickering wapentake. Population, 152 ; Church-room, 90; Net value, £51. -Millicent, daughter of Nicholas de Ruston, with the consent of her son William, gave to the Priory of Wykeham all her land amounting to three oxgangs adjoining to the court of the Nuns, extending from the end of Ruston to the end of Wycham, with all the turbary thereto belonging, and a toft extending from Sciterie to the great road leading from Pickering to Scardeburg.

Patron, W. T. St. Quintin, Esq. Impropriators, W. T. St. Quintin, J. Greame, and T. Oliver, Esqrs.

Valued in 1707, at £4. 17s. per annum. In the Parliamentary Survey, vol. xvii. page 398: it is stated " £10, and £20 out of the tithes."

There is a payment of £15. 6s. 8d. made to the Curate from the Exchequer.

Augmented in 1741, with £200; in 1763, with £200; in 1787, with £200; in 1817, with £200 from the Parliamentary grant ; in 1824, with £200; and in 1832, with £200 -all by lot.

An Inclosure Act was passed 41st Geo. III.

No glebe house.

The Register Books commence in 1585, but imperfect till 1620.

Parochial Charities. -No return.

Post town: Driffield.

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References:
Not mentioned by Torre. Abp. Sharp's MS., vol. ii. page 203. Bawdwen's Domesday Book (Roreston), pages 31. 57. 224. Burton's Monasticon, page 256.