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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: WRESSLE.     Church dedication: SAINT JOHN OF BEVERLEY.     Church type: Discharged Vicarage.

Area, 3,040 acres. Harthill wapentake. Holme Beacon. - Population, 386 *1; Church-room, 200 *2 ; Net value, £157. -The manor of Wressle was purchased of King Richard II. by Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester, who having so done, built the Castle there.

The Church was an ancient Rectory, and is supposed to have been given by the Percies to the Priory of Drax, to which it was appropriated, and a Vicarage ordained therein, 26th November 1381. After the Dissolution, the Advowson came to the Earls of Northumberland, and then to the Dukes of Somerset.

Patron and impropriator, the Earl of Egremont.

Torre mentions, " a composition made 15th April 1353 with Malton Priory as to the tithes of Brynde."

The Church is valued in Pope Nicholas's taxation, at £15. 6s. 8d.; in the King's books, the Vicarage is valued at £5. 13s. 6d.; in the Parliamentary Survey, vol. xvii. page 367, it is stated : " Vicarage, worth £26;" -and in 1818, at £90. 7s. 1d. per annum.

The glebe house is unfit for residence.

The Register Books commence in 1724 ; but the book containing the entry of marriages from 1754 to 1799 has been burnt. -Vide transcripts at York.

Parochial Charities. -No return.

Post town: Howden.


References:
Torre's MS., page 1201. Abp. Sharp's MS., vol. ii. page 17. Bawdwen's Domesday Book (Weresa), pages 185. 192; (Neuhuse), 41. Burton's Monasticon, page 111. Savage's History of Wressle Castle.


Notes:
*1 Viz. Newsham and Brind, 203; and Wressle and Loftsome, 183. -In 1834, the population was returned at 385.

*2 Estimated in 1818, at 400.


Other information:
NEWSOME. -Here was a Chantry, which was valued, at the Dissolution, at £3. 6s. 8d. per annum.


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