MUNCASTER TITHE AWARD-SPECIAL PAYMENTS
In addition to the standard tithe payments for individual plots of land, the Muncaster and Birkby Tithe Award of 1843 [Carlisle Record Office, ref. DRC 8/135] contains two lists of special payments, as follow:
Schedule A: "...lands... of Muncaster which are covered from render of the Tithes of Corn and Grain in kind by the prescriptive annual payments set opposite them"
Owner Occupier Land area payment Edward Atkinson Barrow William Sharp Muncaster Mill Lands 50a 2/6 John Steward William Wilson Murthwaite 50a see next John Nicholson Henry Taylor Murthwaite 10a 1/3 Peter William Sherwin John Porter Walk Mill 12a - Benjamin Bibby George Porter Hollow Stones 80a 1/3 Joseph Bibby self High Eskholm 130a 3/0 Rt. Hon. Gamel Augustus Baron Muncaster Benjamin Sims Low Eskholm & Chapple 150a 4/4 Rev. William Pearson Jacob Benson Low Eskholm 32a 8d William Singleton self Low Eskholm 16a 4d
Schedule B: "...lands... of Birkby with the rent charges awarded to each Impropriator instead of the Tithes of Lamb and Wool arising or accruing upon that part of the open moor of the said Township which lies on the South and South East of the Black Beck from Sheep depastured thereon in respect of those lands respectively"
Owner | Occupier | Land | area | payment |
John Nicholson | Joseph Norman | Linbeck | 85a | see next |
John Nicholson as above | self | Ellerbeck | 60a | 24/0 |
John Nicholson as above | self | Nether Stainton | 100a | see above |
John Vickers | Abram Vickers | Knot End | 45a | 4/0 |
Michael Bott | John Gunson | Cropplehow | 110a | see next |
Michael Bott as above | John Jenkinson | Graymains | 200a | 30/0 |
William Vickers | self | Cragg | 250a | 25/0 |
John Troughton | William Troughton | Hinninghouse | 150a | 15/0 |
Richard Bibby | Benj. Bibby | Howbank | 100a | 10/0 |
Samuel Caddy | John Caddy | Dyke | 144a | 14/0 |
John Caddy | self | Rougholm | 140a | 14/0 |
Thomas Casson | John Knight | Stainton | 2a | 1d |