It is recited in the Decree, that, "Whereas John Brooke Doctor of Divinity and George Whittaker, Clark, have exhibited their Bill of complaint against Daniell Waterhouse, Mark Waterhouse, Thomas Barnahy, Esquire, Matthew Wentworth, Esquire, Robert Burdett, gent., Richard Burdet, gent, William Greene, Thomas Green, Richard Hartley ** and others defendants shewinge that all the privie tithes of the whole Parish of Silkstone and the tithe come of Dodworth in the same Parish, together with the privie tithes of Barnesley and Cawthorne, being parcell of the Rectorie of Silkstone, and the toll of the two Fayres at Barnesley, being parcell of the late dissolved Monastery of St. John the Evangelist at Pontefract, sometymes being of the possessions of the Abbot or Prior of St. John the Evangelist aforesaid, stoode chargeable and charged to pare out of the said tythes and premises to the Vicar of Silkstone the yearly pension of thirteen pounds six shillings eightpence; to the Curate of Barnesley Five pounds; to the Curate of Cawthorne four pounds thirteen shillings fourpence; and to the Church of York for proxies and Synodalls eighteen shillings sixpence; And that, as well before the dissolution of the said Monasterie as also after, the said tythes and premisses came to the Crown by the same dissolution, provision was made in divers Leases for the payment of the said pensions, stipends, and other duties by the Tennants, Fermors of the said tythes and premises, which were paid accordinglie untyl such tyme as the same were granted by the late Queen Elizabeth (of famous memory) by severall leases to dyvers severall persons, whoe were not so expresslie bounde by their saide Leases to pay the said Pensions, nor any certain Rates sett upon their several parts thereof, by reason whereof the said Pensions were for a tyme withholden: whereupon Com plaints being made, order was taken in this Honourable Court for the payment of the said Pensions Stipends and other duties by the Fermors and Tennants of the severall parts of the said Tythes and Premises, which were accordingly paid till the 5 and 10th of March 1611, at which tyme a certaigne Lease made by the said late Queen of the privie tythes of Barnesley, Cawthorne, and Dyvers Towns and Hambletts within the Parish of Silkstone, to one Robert Thwaites, and after assigned to John Wilkinson, was expired, And the tythes
