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Data from the 'Collectio Rerum Ecclesiasticarum' from the year 1842.
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ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.
Source=h:/!Genuki/RecordTranscriptions/WRY/WRYChCollection.txtData from the 'Collectio Rerum Ecclesiasticarum' from the year 1842.
The place: OSSETT WITH GAWTHORPE. Church dedication: HOLY TRINITY.
Agbrigg wapentake, L.D. - Population, 5,325 *1, vide Dewsbury; Chapel-room, 1,000 *2; Net value, £162.Patron, the Vicar of Dewsbury.
At the time of the Parliamentary Survey the maintenance was £2 per annum. To remain a Chapelry. -Vol. xviii. page 294.
Augmented in 1718 with £200, to meet benefaction of £200 from Mr. T. Walshaw and others ; in 1729, with £200, to meet benefaction of £200 from the Rev. Henry Robinson; in 1804, with £200 and £200 to meet benefactions of £200 from Mr. Marshall's trustees, and £200 from the Rev. Edward Kilvington; and in 1817 with £600 from the Parliamentary grant, by lot.
An Inclosure Act was passed 47th Geo. III.
5th July 1805, a faculty was granted to enlarge the Chapel and build a gallery.
The glebe house is fit for residence.
No return as to Registers, vide Dewsbury.
Charities:
Charity School. Established, by means of a subscription, in 1745. Income, rent of five cottages and a croft, let for £20. 9s. 2d. per annum. Ten poor children taught reading, writing, and accounts, and which are a reduced number, but it was proposed to add additional scholars.Sarah Wilson's dole. Interest of £10.
Syke's dole. Interest of £2. 12s.
These two sums have been taken by the parish, and no interest paid for some years. A promise was made to the Commissioners that the arrears should be paid up, and distributed amongst the poor. -Vide 19th Report, page 551.
Post town: Wakefield.
References:
Archbishop Sharp's MS., vol. i. page 181. Whitaker's Loidis et Elmete, page 309.
Notes:
*1 In 1834, the Population was returned at 5,361.*2 Of which 300 free sittings have been obtained, under a grant of £300 from the Society for Enlarging Churches. The estimate in 1818 was 1,360.
George Lawton in 1842..
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