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

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.

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

The place: SAWLEY.     Church dedication: ST. MICHAEL.

Area, vide Ripon. Ripon liberty. -Population, vide Ripon *1; Chapel-room, 350; Net value, £66.

Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Ripon.

Valued in 1707, at £30 and in 1818, at £71 per annum *2.

Augmented in 1743, with £200, to meet benefaction of £200 from G. Norton, Esq.; in 1792, with £200 -by lot; and in 1814, with £300 from the Parliamentary Grant, to meet benefactions of £100 from the Rev. J. Oates, the Incumbent, and £100 from Mrs. Pyncombe's trustees.

An Inclosure Act was passed 37th Geo. III.

The glebe house is unfit for residence.

The Register Books are entered at Ripon.

Charities:
Sundry doles, amounting together to £13. 15s. per annum.

Ancient rent charge, 20s. per annum.

School. £5 per annum to the Curate for teaching six poor children to read, being a legacy left by Ralph Lowther, Esq.

Theakstones dole. 20s. per annum out of a farm called Lowgate. Payment refused at the time of the Report. -Vide 6th Report, page 643.

Post town: Ripon.

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Notes:
*1 Returned at 588 In 1834.

*2 " Unsupplied with a preaching Minister, yet one Benjamin Brown, clerk, living near thereunto, of his own free will preacheth there sometimes gratis." -Parliamentary Survey, vol. xviii. page 138.