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Welwick |
Area, 3,310 acres. Holderness wapentake, S.D. -Population, 401 ; Church-room, 350 *1; Net value, £104. -Here was a Church at the time of the Domesday Survey ; also a priest and thirty-two villanes, and thirteen bordars, having nine ploughs.This church was of the patronage and jurisdiction of the Collegiate Church of Beverley, to which it was appropriated 22nd May 1361.
Patron, the Lord Chancellor.
Impropriator, W. Fewson, Esq.
No endowment is given. The first Vicar named in Torre's catalogue was instituted in 1587.
The Church is valued in Pope Nicholas's taxation, at £29. 18s. 4d.; in the King's books, the Vicarage is valued at £5. 4s.; Procurations to Beverley, 10s. : in the Parliamentary Survey, vol. xvii. page 259, it is stated : " Vicarage, worth £20;" -and in 1818, at £80 per annum.
Augmented in 1760, with £200; and in 1767, with £200 -both by lot.
" Welwick is a Vicarage, and endowed with nothing but petit tithes, a small close, and an oxgang of land, containing ten acres. It is united with Holmpton, but by whom I know not, not above sixty years since *2. Is of the yearly value of £12." Signed, " Josias Tooker-man." -Notitia Parochialis, No. 838. Vide Holmpton.
An Inclosure Act was passed 8th Geo. III.
Jurisdiction. In the diocese of York, vide Beverley.
No glebe house.
The Register Books commence in 1650; defective 1744 till 1757. Some of the books are much injured by damp. -Vide transcripts at York.
Charity:
Town's Stock. This consists of the sum of £40. 10s. on mortgage, but how acquired does not appear. The mortgage was made in 1724 on an estate at Weston. -The Commissioners reported, that the interest was received by the overseers at the time when they collected the rates, and was, as it always had been, applied therewith, and in the same manner. -Vide 9th Report, page 782.Post town: Pattrington.
References:
Torre's MS. (Peculiars), page 219. Abp. Sharp's MS., vol. ii. page 148. Bawdwen's Domesday Book (Weluuic), page 58. Thompson's Occ. Prom., page 256.
Notes:
*1 Estimated in 1818 at 400.*2 "This Vicarage has been held with the Rectory of Holmpton ever since 1684." -Abp. Sharp's MS., vol. ii. page 148. There is no union at present.