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Data from the 'Collectio Rerum Ecclesiasticarum' from the year 1842.
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ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.
Source=h:/!Genuki/RecordTranscriptions/WRY/WRYChCollection.txtData from the 'Collectio Rerum Ecclesiasticarum' from the year 1842.
The place: WINKESLEY with GRANTLEY. Church dedication: ST. OSWALD.
Claro wapentake, U. and L. -Population, vide Ripon *1; Chapel-room, 400 *2; Net value, £68.Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Ripon.
Valued in 1707, at £35 *3; and in 1818, at £70 per annum.
Augmented in 1740, with £200 -by lot ; in 1745, with £200, to meet benefaction of £200 from Fletcher Norton, Esq.; and in 1772, with £200, to meet benefaction of £200 from C. Hopkins, Esq.
An Inclosure Act was passed 37th Geo. III.
Glebe house unfit for residence.
The Parish Registers are included in Ripon.
Charities:
TOWNSHIP OF GRANTLEY.The School. The master receives the annual stipend of £6, under the will of Mr. John Richmond, and he has also the occupation of a house, garden, and half an acre of land; the will provides for twelve free scholars in reading, writing, arithmetic, and the Church Catechism, but only eight are taught.
TOWNSHIP OF WINKESLEY.
Poor widows' rent charge. 10s. per annum-donor unknown. -Vide 7th Report, page 765.
Post town: Ripon.
References:
Burton's Monasticon, pages 208. 371.
Notes:
*1 Returned at 451 in 1834.*2 220 additional sittings, of which 103 are free, have been obtained under a grant from the Society of 1501.
*3 In the Parliamentary Survey, vol. xviii. page 138, it is stated to have "Neither Minister nor maintenance."
George Lawton in 1842..
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