Low Bentham

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.

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

The place: INGLETON.     Church dedication: PATRON SAINT NOT KNOWN.

Area, 15,280 acres. Ewcross wapentake. -Population, 1,228; Church-room, 475; Net value, £100.

Patron, the Rector of Bentham. There is no glebe house.

The Register Books commence in 1607.

Charities:
Sundry doles. Interest of £120, after paying 20s. to the schoolmaster.

Foxcroft's dole, 20s. per annum. Bentham's dole, 10s. per annum. Howson's dole, 10s. per annum, in bread.

Michael Redmayne's rent charge, 14s. per annum. -Vide 13th Report, page 645.

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References:
Not noticed by Torre. Bawdwen's Domesday Book (Inglestune), page 41. Whitaker's Richmondshire, vol. ii. page 343.