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

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.

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

The place: NUN MONKTON.     Church dedication: ST. MARY.     Church type: Augmented perpetual Curacy.

Area, 1,250 acres. Claro wapentake. -Population, 398 ; Church-room, 250; Net value, £78.

Patron and impropriator, J. Tuffnell, Esq.

Inclosure Act 17th Geo. III.

Glebe house unfit.

The Register Books commence in 1708. -Vide transcripts of earlier date at Richmond.

Charities:
Marshall's gift. £10 per annum.

Wilson's charity, vide York Charities, page 40. £5 per annum for teaching twelve poor children. -Vide 3rd Report, page 475.

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References:
Torre's MS., page 1459. Bawdwen's Domesday Book (Monucheton), page 54. Hargrove's Knaresborough, page 370.

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Further information:
PRIORY OF NUN MONKTON. -A Benedictine Nunnery was founded here in the time of King Stephen, by William de Arches and Ivetta his wife.

Mon. Angl., vol. iv. page 192.