MM10 Surveys: Various Preferments

Survey volume MM10 is the tenth in the series of thirteen 'MM' volumes, which covers various preferments, which were transferred to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners under mid nineteenth century parliamentary legislation.; The volume covers the surveys carried out on behalf of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners by their appointed Land Agents, Messrs. Smith & Watkins, Messrs. Smith & Gore, Messrs. Pickering & Smith and Messrs. Milles, jennings, White & Foster. The preferments include the following: the Bishopwearmouth Rectory Estates transferred to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners by agreement on 18 July 1867 (effective), which was published in the London Gazette on 9 August 1867 by Order in Council; and the East Dereham Sinecure Rectory Estates transferred to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners on 1 October 1872 by vacancy; Fens Chapel Trust Estates transferred to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners under the Fen Chapels Act 1875 (38 and 39 Vict. cap. CLXXII); Handsworth Rectory Estates transferred to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners under the Handsworth Rectory Act 1891; the Kirkby in Cleveland Sinecure Rectory Estates transferred to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in 1971 by vacancy; the Leverington Rectory Estates transferred to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners under the Leverington Rectory Act 1870 (33 & 34 Vic. C. CLV); the Newington St. Mary Rectory Estates transferred to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners under the St. Mary Newington Act 1869; the Winwick Rectory Estates transferred to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners under the Winwick Rectory Act 1884; Burnley Rectory Estates transferred to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners under the [Burnley Rectory Act 1890/91] (53 & 54 V. cap. CXXIII); the Sutton Coldfield Rectory Estates transferred to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners under the Sutton Coldfield Rectory Act 1907; and the Clapham Rectory Estates transferred to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in 24 January 1908 by vacancy under an Order in Council dated 26 October 1906.; These surveys were essential to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, as it was the most comprehensive way of clearly ascertaining the extent and condition of the preferments that had been transferred. ; As preferments were transferred to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners from the Ecclesiastical Corporations, the various holdings of the estates were either kept or sold; the land agents supplied recommendatory advice on this matter with the survey reports.; The volume also has added annotations often regarding the disposal of property or land since the surveys were originally carried out and therefore incorporates later dates.; The geographical areas covered within the volume includes: the county of Durham, parish of Bishopwearmouth; the county of Norfolk, parishes of East Dereham and Hoo; the county of Essex, parishes of Chapple [Chapel] or Pontesbright [Pontisbrigh] and Little Tey; the county of Staffordshire, parish of Handsworth; the county of Yorkshire, parishes of Kirkby in Cleveland and Sheffield; the county of Cambridgeshire, parish of Leverington; the county of Montgomeryshire, parishes of Llanbrymnair [Llanbrynmair] and Darowen; the county of Lancashire, parishes of Manchester, Winwick, Burnley, Whalley, Walton on the Hill, Childwall, Liverpool, Leigh and Wigan; the county of Surrey, parishes of Newington St. Mary, Walworth, Clapham, Battersea and Lambeth; the county of Wiltshire, parish of Wroughton; the county of Warwickshire, parish of Sutton Coldfield; the county of Suffolk, parish of Ipswich St. Margaret; the county of Kent, parish of Woolwich St. Mary; and the county of Middlesex, parishes of London Old Street St. Luke and London St. Giles without Cripplegate.