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North Newbald |
Area, 5,450 acres. Harthill wapentake. Hunsley Beacon. -Population, 769 *1; Church-room, 400; Net value, £102. -There was a Church and a priest at Newbald, at the time of the Norman survey.The Cathedral Church of York held in North Newbald twenty-eight carucates of land, given by Ulphus, and shared amongst those following Prebends :-
The Prebendary of Riccall hath one capital tenement wasted, on his demesne manor, with eight oxgangs of demesne land, and other tenants holding twenty-five oxgangs by suit of court and certain services.
The Prebendary of Warthill hath one capital messuage and two oxgangs of demesne land, and other tenants and land held by rent and services.
The Prebendary of Osbaldwick hath one hall, or capital tenement, and 16 oxgangs of land in demesne, with nine tenements and fourteen oxgangs of land.
The Prebendary of South Newbald is lord of the whole town, having therein his manor and fourteen oxgangs of demesne land, and jurisdiction over the inhabitants from the Beck under the Church-yard side as far as the south end of the town, on both sides of the highway, excepting two tenements lying together.
The Prebendary of Husthwaite hath one capital messuage at the south end of the street called Gaylgate, and ten oxgangs of demesne land, also twenty-two tenants holding thirteen oxgangs and three acres of land, and jurisdiction over them all.
The Prebendary of North Newbald bath twenty-four oxgangs of demesne land, and eighteen other tenements, and manor house and mill, and jurisdiction over all his tenants. He is also Rector and Patron of the Vicarage.
Torre gives a catalogue of the Vicars. Also a correction process in 1415, against one of the Vicars.
The Vicarage is valued in Pope Nicholas's taxation at £5; in the King's books, at £4; in the Parliamentary Survey, vol. xvii. pages 183 (Rectory) -187, and 358 (Vicarage), it is stated : "The Vicar hath tithe bay, and all small tithes. No minister. Impropriation, £120; Maintenance, £15. Bentley, in the parish of Rowley, to be annexed."
Augmented in 1762, with £200, by lot ; in 1779, with £200 to meet benefaction of £200 from the Earl of Thanet's administratrix ; and in 1816, with £600 from the Parliamentary grant, by lot.
A decree in the Exchequer in Michaelmas Term, 7th Car. II., as to tithes, is unreported.
An Inclosure Act was passed 17th Geo. III.
No glebe house.
The Register Books commence in 1600. No entries from 1642 to 1654, nor from 1679 to 1709 inclusive. -Vide Transcripts in the Prebendal Court.
Charities:
William Gill's charity, by will, dated 26th July 1728. Rent of land, (quantity not stated) let at the time of the report, for £113. 10s. per annum, and dividends on £216. 12s. three per cent. consols, and interest of £15 in the Savings' Bank. The sum of £1 per annum is paid to a Receiver, and 6s. a year to the parish clerk for cleaning the donor's monument in Newbald Church ; the residue of the rents and dividends is distributed among twenty poor persons of the parish who have never received parochial relief.Gunby's, Wilson's, and Burton's rents charge. £2. 12s. 6d. per annum, for educating six poor children, and £1. 6s. per annum. laid out in weekly bread.
Payment by J. W. Clough, Esq. £1 per annum to the poor, out of an estate at Newbald, supposed to be an acknowledgment for taking-in part of a public road.
Payment by H. B. Barnard, Esq. An ancient charge of 10s. per annum.
Payment by Mr. Peter Lyon. 10s. per annum, -an ancient charge to the poor.
Payments by Richard Burgess and Sam. Dawson. 6s. 8d. and 3s. 4d. per annum respectively to the poor.
Some small donations left to the poor of the parish appear to have been lost. -Vide 11th Report, page 710.
Post town: Market Weighton.
References:
Torre's MS. (Peculiars), p. 809. Abp. Sharp's MS., vol. ii. page 100. Bodleian MS., No. 5101. Bawdwen's Domesday Book (Niwebolt), page 46.
Notes:
*1 Viz. North Newbald, 575 ; and South Newbald, 194. The parish is in the Liberty of St. Peter of York.