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South Cave |
Area, 7,480 acres. Harthill wapentake *1. Hunsley Beacon. -Population, 1,200 *2; Church-room, £600; Net value, £168. -There are in South Cave, of the fee of Mowbray, twenty-four oxgangs of land, whereof eight oxgangs make a carucate, and sixteen carucates a knight's fee, which was held by the heir of the Deyvills, the whole town containing fifteen carucates.The Prebendary of South Cave hath in the town one carucate (or eight oxgangs) of demesne land and meadow, a manor, and several tenements held of him, over which he hath full jurisdiction.
The Prebendary of South Cave was Rector, to whom the Church was appropriated, and a Vicarage ordained therein.
The endowment is not given by Torre. The first date of institution given in his list of Vicars is 1327.
Patron and impropriator, H. G. Barnard, Esq.
The Vicarage is valued in Pope Nicholas's taxation, at £6. 13s. 4d.; in the King's books, at £8; in the Parliamentary Survey, vol. xvii. page 352, it is stated: " Vicarage, £23. There is a convenient Chapel at Bromfleet. To be made a parish, and Flaxfleet annexed ;" -and in 1818, at £140 per annum.
" The Church is endowed with a Vicarage house and the small tithes, not exceeding £30, at the extended value." Signed, " Peter Hickington, Vic." -Notitia Parochialis, No. 995 *3.
Inclosure Acts were passed 25th Geo. III. and 11th Geo. IV.
The glebe house was returned in 1818 as unfit for residence, being " very inferior ;" and returned " unfit," in 1834.
The Register Books commence in 1558 ; deficient from 1627 to 1634, and from 1657 to 1670. -Vide transcripts in the Registry of the Peculiar. The first book is loose parchment.
Charities:
Samuel Jobson's charity, by will, about 1697. Rent of one cottage and ten acres of land, applied as follows :-20s. per annum to the Minister, for an anniversary sermon on Easter Tuesday ; 20s. per annum to the master of the workhouse, towards providing a dinner for the poor people therein at Christmas and Cave fair ; and the remainder for providing white bread for widows and other necessitous poor on the last Sunday in every month, by the churchwardens.The School. Endowment : 9a. 1r. 6p. of land, which in 1797 were demised for thirty years on a nominal rent, in consideration of £300, which was applied in building a market-house, with a schoolroom above, and a house for the master. The school, at the time of the Report, was conducted on the National plan. About fifty scholars. The master's salary arises from voluntary subscriptions, and 1s. 6d. per quarter from each child. -Vide 10th Report, page 656.
A post town.
References:
Torre's MS. (Peculiars), page 815. Abp. Sharp's MS., vol. ii. page 99. Wood's Bodleian MS., No. 5078. Bawdwen's Domesday Book (Cave), pages 46. 76. 154. 202. 233. 237. Burton's Monast., page 331.
Notes:
*1 Part of the parish is within the liberty of St. Peter of York.*2 Viz. Bromfleet, 190; Flaxfleet, 177 ; mid South Cave, 833.
*3 " The Rector is now entitled to tithes of the manor of Bromfleet, the lands therein having formerly been parcel of the Monastery of St. Leonard, and tithe free. Clarke v. Sunderland." 1 Wood, page 175.
Other information:
" The Vicar, and not the Impropriator, is entitled to the agistment tithes of sheep, lambs, and all barren and unprofitable cattle in kind, but the Impropriator is entitled to the tithes of hay, wool, and lambs. Garnons v. Barnard." 4 Wood, page 377.