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Researches Into the History of Welton and Its Neighbourhood
Researches Into the History of Welton and Its Neighbourhood Author:Thomas Thompson Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: from the Eiver Derwent eastwards for about twenty miles on the north bank of the rivers Ouse and Humber, up to and adjoining the Parish of North Ferriby, and con... more »taining a great number of parishes forming the district known for ages by the name of Howdenshire. Welton and Melton are two Mesne Manors appendant to and within the Manor of Howden. The Lord of that Manor being the Lord Paramount of all the Mesne Manors, of which there are many within Howdenshire, as the Constables of Burton Constable are of all those within Holderness. The Parish of Welton is bounded by the Parish of North Ferriby on the east and in part on the north also ; by the Parish of Elloughton in other part on the north and on the west, and by the Humber on the south. It lies about eight miles west of the boundary of the Borough of Kingston-upon- Hull, but Brough in Yorkshire is its post town. It is a vicarage, which was till lately in the patronage of the Crown as lay-rector, having obtained the rectory on the dissolution of the Monasteries in Henry the Eighth's time, and so continued to hold the rectory till in 1859 it was, by Act of Parliament, 22 Victoria, chap. 9, given to Miss Sophia Broadley, of Welton House, in exchange for the rectory of Ecton, in Northamptonshire. The open lands in the parish were enclosed as to Welton Township by Acts of Parliament, 24th George II. A.D. 1.752, and 12th George III. A.d. 1772, and as to the Melton by llth George III. A.d. 1771, under which the Vicar holds a considerable quantity of land in lieu of tithes, and has also tithe rents issuing from old inclosures, and from some of the new inclosures, under the first mentioned acts, and under both the Lord Paramount of the Manor of Howden (formerly the Bishop of Durham, afterwards the Bishop of Eipon, and now the ...« less