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Harthill wapentake. Holme Beacon. -Population, 138, vide Aughton; Chapel-room, 150; Net value, vide Aughton.
The lordship, &c. belonged to Saint Mary's Abbey.Archbishop Sharp thought this Chapel rather belongs to Ellerton than to Aughton.
Patron, the Lord Chancellor.
Valued in the Parliamentary Survey, vol. xvii. page 371, at £7 per annum, and recommended to be united to Aughton.
15th April, A.D. 1343, licence was granted to the inhabitants of East Cottingworth, to have divine service celebrated by a fit chaplain, till such time as the Chapel (then fallen down) should be rebuilt.
Inclosure Acts were passed 13th and 31st Geo. III.
There was no glebe house in 1818. -No return in 1834.
24th April 1784, faculty to rebuild the Chapel on a larger scale.
Register Books, vide Aughton.
Charities:
The town's land, 18a. Let at the time of the Report for £28. 14s. per annum, which sum is added to the poor's rates, after paying to the schoolmaster, for teaching four poor children to read, £3. 10s. The Commissioners reported that there were no deeds or writings respecting this property.Doles. -Ellis Bradley's, by will, about 1719. rent charge of 10s. to the poor, at Lady day and Michaelmas.
Unknown. rent charge of 10s. per annum to the poor. -Vide 10th Report, page 654.
Post town: York.
References:
Torre's MS., page 1224. Abp. Sharp's MS., vol. ii. page 21. Mon. Angl. vol. iii. page 572. Bawdwen's Domesday Book (Coteuuid), pages 77. 187. 208.