Notes on the Parish of Arksey - Part 4

'Notes on the Parish of Arksey' by A E Trout 1913

The Transcriptions - Part Four

Continuing the transcription of a note book written by Archie Ernest Trout in 1913 and discovered in Arksey Vicarage. It is copied just as Archie wrote it. Presented in ten parts, this is part four.

For part three go to - Notes on the Parish of Arksey - Part 3

For an introduction to this series go to - Exciting Find at the Vicarage.

Contents

• The Church, Heraldry and Monumental
• The Church, Furniture, Possessions etc
• Registers and other papers
• Act for Burying in Woollens & Certificates
• Font Cover
• Parish Registers
• Miscellaneous Entries
• Notes and Links

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Page 10

The Church, Heraldry and Monumental

 

(Yorks Arch Socy Records, vol 34)

Dodsworth, the Yorkshire antiquary visited Arksey church on July 10th 1621, and the following is his remarks thereon.

Windows on the north side.

1 window.

Gu, a lyon rampant vaire. Everingham

Vaire, a jesse gu. Marmion

Az, a bend or, a label of 3 points ar. Scrope

Ar, a saltire engrailed gu. Tiploft (Tibetot)

2 window.

Gu, a manch or, a label of 3 points ar. Hastinges Puto
Masculy ar, and gu. Fitzwilliam
Ar, a bend ente 6 martletts gules. Furnival
Ar, 3 barrs gu. a lyon rampant sa.

3

Masculy ar, and gu. a martlett sa. Fitzwilliam*

Idem paled with az, a manch or. Fitzwilliam Conyers

A man kneeling, in armor, on his brest, quarterly az, a bend or (Scrope) 2 ar. a saltire engrailed gu. Tiploft (Tibetot)

3 as 2, 4 as first, in the midest of all mollett.

Ar, underneath - Orate pro animabus omnium benefactrum magistri Ricardi Scrope, vivorum et mortuorum, qui istam fenestram vitriarant. 

1st window on north side

Orate pro animabus (Thomae) Darell, capellani regis capellae de Tykhill** et Nicholai Darell et Isa (bellae), uxoris ejus, qui istam fenestram vitriari fecerunt.

On stones in the quyer (choir) 

Hic jacet Alicia Bradford, uxor Johannis Bradford quondam balivi de Bentley, qui obit vicesimo sexto die Septembris anno Domino mcccccxxvii, cujus animae propitietur Deus.

Hic jacet Nicholous Fitzwilliam de Bentley***, armiger, qui obit viii die Aprilis anno Domini millesimo quingeutessimo vicesimo sexto.

Hic jacet Thomas Wilbore**** filia Thome Wilbore de Bentley, qui obit fricesimo die Decembris anno domini MDLXXII cujus animae ad pacem suam recepit deus.

In the west window

Quarterly az, a bend or, cum ar, a saltire engrailed gu. 3 as 2, 4 as 1. Scrope and Tibloft (Tibetot) az, a lion rampant or, on the top of this scutcheon there is written Georgius Darell, underneath orate pro animabus Thome Darell, capellam regis capelle de Tykhill, et Nicholas Darell de Tykhill, qui istam fenestram vitsiavil (sic).

North window

Per pale ar, a cross flory, sa (Copley) cum ar, fretty sa (Harrington).    

Le Scrope, Sir Henry. Port d'azure on le bend d'or, et eu le bend vng leonsius de purpure.

     

Notes by A E Trout:  

* Sir W Fitzwilliam of Sprotborough who died in 1495, married Elizabeth Conyers living in 1498.
** for an account of the Royal chapel of Tickhill, see Hunter's 'South Yorkshire' i. 235.
*** There was a younger branch of the Fitzwilliam's of Sprotborough, settled in Bentley. The above Nicholas married Alice, daughter of Robert Baildon of Baildon.
**** The Wilbores came from Pontefract, the only pedigree seems to be in Richard Holmes 'Black Friars of Pontefract'.

The Church, Possessions, Furniture etc

 

Registers and Other Papers

The church chest contains many important papers, the principal of which, registers, church wardens accounts, constables accounts etc, are described under their respective headings.

 

Act for Burying in Woollens & Certificates

One paper of great interest is the original government imprint of the Act for Burying in Woollens (dated......), an act passed for the pupose of assisting the home woollen trade and a number of certificates in conformity with the act are enclosed in the church chest.

 

Font Cover

The font cover, of wood carved, bears initials and date carved on the four sides as follows: 1st side, 1662, 2nd, TT, 3rd, SB, 4th, SB. These are the initials of the vicar Samuel Burdett and the church wardens for that year, Thomas Tirwhitt and Samuel Broughton.   

 

Parish Registers

The registers date from 1557 and are in splendid condition and, I believe, are quite complete.

Extracts relating to the family of 'Trout' will be found in the writer's MSS 'History of the Trout family'.

Other extracts from...... to...... are printed in the Arksey Parish magazine for...... which I believe was only issued for that year, and a copy is to be found in the church chest.

Several others are recorded below:

According to Bardsley's Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1901) the name Tirwhitt orginates from  'Troite' as also does that of 'Trout', and it occurs many times in the old Arksey registers, the following being a few later examples:

Baptisms

1715 Jana, filia (daughter of) Thomas Tirwhitt, Arksey, March 29

1717 Thomas, filius (son of) Thomas Tirwhitt, Arksey, April 30

1719 William,  filius Thomas Tirwhitt, Arksey agrie (field), Aug 25

1724 Elizabeth, filia Thomas Tirwhitt, Arksey, Nov 2

Marriage

1741 David Crawshaw and Jane Tirwhitt, April 14

Burials (sepult)

1711 Thomas Tirwhitt de Arksey, Oct 22

1717 Guilielimus (William) Tirwhitt de Shaftholme, Jul 23

1724 Elizabeth, uxor (wife), Thomas Tirwhitt de Arksey sepult, Nov 2 

The following is very interesting:

1764/5, 11 January, John Wilkinson of Waitehouse in the Parish of Barnby Dun, memorandum - that Mary, his widow paid 1/0d to Sir Brian Cooke, Bart. of Wheatley as an acknowledgement of a trespass for his corpse coming over Grumble Hirst and part of Arksey Ings to New Bridge* and from thence to Arksey, ye (?) same being no highway.

The next entries refer to the 'Cooke' family but do not represent all their entries:

Burials

1703 Sepultura. Katherina uxor honorabilis Georgii Cooke de Wheatley, Bart. April 19

1731 Priscilla uxor Brian Cooke de Wheatley, armig, June 22 

1732 Dominus George Cooke de Adwick, Baronettus, Oct 12  

1734 Sir Bryan Cooke of Wheatley, Bart. Nov 12

1765/6 Sir Brian Cooke of Wheatley, Bart. March 10.

Miscellaneous Entries

Baptisms

1778, Feb 17, Rebecca,  daur of Cornelius Jennings of Bentley, farmer.

1784/5, Feb 15, Richard, son of Cornelius Jennings of Bentley, farmer.

Burials

1781, Oct 31, Alice Horncastle, widow of Bentley, aged 100 years.

The following is written at the end of the register for the year 1729:

'In the year 1726 only 10 (burials). But in 1727 were 52, in 1728 were 54, and in 1729 were 55.'

"The greatest mortality that ever can be remembered or made out to be in the parish of Arksey." Chas Herring, clark.

This was evidently some epidemic, probably small pox, which raged in many places at the beginning of the eighteenth century, but the next year, 1730, there were again 55 burials, after which they again slackened down. 

 

Notes by A E Trout:

* This was a bridge put up for Sir Brian Cooke.   

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Notes and Links

Some of the wording in this section of Mr Trout's book was hard to read, for that reason, some words may be inaccurate. 

To continue go to - Notes on the Parish of Arksey - Part 5

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