A History of Withernsea: With Notices of Other Parishes in South Holderness in the East Riding of the County of York |
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acres aforesaid aged Alderman Andrew Marvell April August bapt bell Beverley born Burstwick Burton Burton Pidsea chancel chapel Christopher church Churchwardens Clerk Constable daughter of John daye December Deed died Easington East Edward Elizabeth entries erected February Francis garth George Halsham Hedon Henry Hildyard Holderness Hollym Holmpton Hull Humber hundred INCUMBENTS James Jane January July June Keyingham Kilnsea land LIST OF INCUMBENTS Lord Manor March married Mary meadow Medforth miles Mort November October Ottringham Overseers Overton Owstwick Owthorne oxgang Paid Parish Registers pasture Patrington poor Preston PRIMITIVE METHODIST Rector Resig Richard Richardson Richd Rimswell Robert Robert Overton Robt September Skeffling Snaith sonne South Spurn Sunk Island Tennyson Thomas Thorngumbald Thos town Township Tunstall Vicar Vicarage Welwick wife was baptized William Willm Winestead Withernsea ye daughter York Yorkshire ΙΟ
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Page 160 - They went up again to the garret, and Jack, the servant boy, was called. ' Jack, child, what had I J Grosart, vol. Iv. p. 327. for dinner yesterday ? ' ' Don't you remember, sir ? you had the little shoulder of mutton that you ordered me to bring from a woman in the market.
Page 160 - Very right, child. What have I for dinner to-day ? ' ' Don't you know, sir, that you bid me lay by the blade-bone to broil ? ' ' Tis so ; very right, child ; go away.' ' My lord, do you hear that ? Andrew Marvell's dinner is provided. There's your piece of paper ; I want it not I know the sort of kindness you intended. I live here to serve my constituents ; the Ministry may seek men for their purpose, — I am not one.
Page 162 - ... by few ; and scarce paralleled by any. But a Tombstone can neither , contain his character, nor is Marble necessary to transmit , it to posterity ; it is engraved in the minds of this generation, and will be always legible in his inimitable writings, nevertheless. He having served...
Page 16 - Land, and that they might be collected to their full value, a taxation by the King's precept was begun in that year, and finished as to the province of Canterbury, in 1291 ; and as to that of York, in the following year...
Page 46 - Wakefield, given in at the primary visitation of the most Reverend Father in God, Edward, by Divine Providence, Lord Archbishop of York, Primate of England and Metropolitan...
Page 156 - Curate' in 1611 ;' and thence he passed to Winestead in Holderness, to which ' living' he was presented by the head of the House of the Hildyards in 1614. I take this ' entry' from the carefully-preserved church-book : •Anno Dni. 1614. Andrewe Marvell, parson of Winestead, was inducted into the corporall and peaceable possession of the sayd parsonage by Mr. Marmaduke Brooke, deane, parson of Rosse, upon Easter even, being George 's-day, the 1 I feel much obligated to the incumbent of Meldreth (Rev.
Page 162 - Parliament, and that with such wisdom, dexterity, integrity, and courage, as becomes a true Patriot, The Town of Kingston upon Hull From whence he was constantly deputed to that Assembly, lamenting in his Death the Public Loss, have erected this Monument of their Grief and Gratitude 1688. He died in the 58th year of his age, on the 16th day of August 1678. Heu fragile humanum Genus. Heu terrestria Vana! Heu quern spectatum confinet Urna Virum!
Page 198 - Stainulf had eight carucates of land to be taxed, where there may be four ploughs. Ilbert now has it, but it is waste. Value in King Edward's time, forty shillings. Wood pasture half a mile long and half broad.
Page 97 - Turner of this Parish Spinster were married in this Church by banns this 16th day of March in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty by me Eichard Lucas.
Page 23 - September 29th, 1654, no marriage was to be celebrated within the Commonwealth of England without the register's certificate that he had published banns on three ' successive Lord's days, at the close of the morning exercise, in the public meeting place commonly called the church or chapel, or (if the parties preferred it) in the nearest market-place on three successive market days.