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

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.

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

The place: STILLINGFLEET.     Church dedication: ST. HELEN.     Church type: Discharged Vicarage.

Area, 5,820 acres, Ouse and Derwent, and Ainsty wapentakes. -Population, 909 *2; Church-room, 300 *3 ; Net value, £412. -In Stillingfleet are five carucates of land, whereof two were held of the heirs of Baldwin Wake, who held them of the King by knight's service and 2s. rent per annum.

And one carucate and a half was held of the heirs of Robert Trussbutt, who held the same of the heirs of Ros, and they of the King in capite.

And the Abbot of Selby held one oxgang of the fee of St. Leonard by no rent ; and two other oxgangs were held of Robert de Lacy, who held them of Henry Fitz Count, and he of the Earl of Richmond, and he of the King in capite by knight's service.

Also there was another carucate held of Jordan Folyott, who held it of Baldwin Wake, and he of the King in capite.

Here twelve carucates made one knight's fee.

Kelfield, a town in Stillingfleet parish, contained four carucates of land, (where ten carucates made a knight's fee,) and of which eighteen oxgangs were held of the Earl of Richmond, who held them of the King in capite, by knight's service and no rent ; and out of the same, the Abbot of Selby received 20s. per annum.

Also, John de Styngreve and Stephen Twyveley, of York, held six oxgangs by 2s. rent per annum.

And one carucate was held by Roger Sta. Andrea, who held it of the Earl of Worcester, who held it of the King in capite by knight's service.

Acaster Selby, in this parish, contains twenty-seven oxgangs of land, of which the Abbot and Convent of St. Mary's, York, held six and a half oxgangs of the Honor of Eye ; and the Prioress of Appleton held five oxgangs of Sir Joceline D'Arcy.

Moreby, another town in this parish, contains two carucates of land, whereof one was held by knight's service, and 6d. rent of the fee of Richmond, who held it of the King in capite ; and the other carucate was held by William, son of Thomas de Merston, who held it of the Earl of Richmond, who held it of the King in capite, by knight's service and 6d. rent.

The Church was an ancient Rectory belonging to the patronage of Robert de Pickering, Dean of York, till it was given to the Hospital of Saint Mary, in Bootham, to which it was appropriated, and a Vicarage ordained therein, 15th Aug. 1330.

It appears there was a Vicarage previous to the gift of the Church to the Hospital, but it was consolidated with the Rectory, in the year 1292. -The Vicar is liable to a sixth part of the repairs of the Chancel.

The impropriation was settled by King Philip and Queen Mary upon the Dean and Chapter of York, in trust for the Free School, founded by the said King and Queen, called the Horsefair School of St. Mary, in York. And the Dean and Chapter of York are the present patrons.

The Church is valued in Pope Nicholas's taxation at £40; in the King's books the Vicarage is valued at £9. 7s. 6d. per annum ; Synodals and Procurations, 12s. 6d.: and in the Parliamentary Survey, vol. xvii. page 309, it is stated : " Vicarage, £20; Impropriation, £180."

Augmented in 1734, with £200, to meet benefaction of certain waste ground of (or near) the value of £200; and if not of that value, then to add so much money as shall make up that sum, from Mr. Ralph Nixon, and the Rev. Robert Potter.

There were two Chantries founded in this Church, viz. Moreby's and Arclum's ; and there was also a College at Acaster Selby.

A decree in the Exchequer, in Michaelmas Term, 31st Eliz., as to tithes, is unreported.

Jurisdiction. In the Diocese of York, but anciently within the peculiar jurisdiction of the Abbot and Convent of Selby.

Inclosure Acts for Kelfield were passed 19th Geo. II. and 46th Geo. III., and 28th Geo. II. (Stillingfleet.)

The glebe house is fit for residence.

A mortgage of £761. 18s. 3d., under Gilbert's Act, will cease in 1850.

The Register Books commence in 1598. Some chasms.

Charities:
TOWNSHIPS OF STILLINGFLEET AND KELFIELD. -The Poor's Land. Given by Elizabeth Stott, by deed, dated 6th May 1693. 2a. 2r. rent given in bread and money.

Rev. Mr. Turey, and Mr. Newstead's rents-charge, -the former, £1. 6s. per annum, for teaching four poor children : and the latter, 4s. per annum to the poor.

Wilkinson's and Cowling's gifts, £8 and £5. Lost about the year 1784. No account can now be given of them.

Kelfield School. Dividends on £370 navy fives, under the will of Mrs. Mary Stillingfleet, dated 20th May 1802. Twenty free scholars taught to read and write.

TOWNSHIP OF ACASTER SELBY.

School. £7. 7s. per annum is paid to the master by the receiver of the Crown rents, and in addition thereto, 20s. per annum is raised by assessment. All the poor children of the township are taught reading, writing, and accounts. -Vide 10th Report, page 673.

Post town: York.

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References:
Torre's MS., page 391 (North Riding). Abp. Sharp's MS., vol. iii. page 12. Bawdwen's Domesday Book (Acastre), pages 117. 158. 228. 244; (Chelchefeld), 118. 203; (Morebi), 118, 203 ; (Steslinflet), 29. 117. 203. 20& Nonae Rolls, page 230.

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Notes:
*1 The township of Stillingfleet with Moorby is partly within the Liberty of St. Peter of York. Torre places this in Bulmer Deanery.

*2 Viz. Acaster Selby, 201; Kelfield, 302; and Stillingfleet with Moorby, 406. In 1834, the population was returned at 910.

*3 Estimated in 1818 at 370.