they do not place any minister at the said Church but such as the Lord Archbishop of York shall allowe and approve of. *** And the said Commission do further certifie that they did find that all or moste of the owners of the tythes in the Parish of Cawthorne doe in effect augment their stipend at the same Rate and proportion that they are or should have been rated unto or towards the payment of the said Ancient Stipend of Four pounds thirteen shillings four pence, save only some fewe that doe paie some small portion above their equal parte, and therefore they sawe noe cause to distinguish the said augmentation from the said indent stipend, But that the Minister of Cawthorne maye by vertue of the said decree be provided and placed by those which for the tyme being shall paye the said some of Seventeen Pounds which shall be yearly payable out of the tythes of Cawthorne ***
"It is therefore this day ordered and decreed by the Courte that the said Certificate made by the said Commissioners shall stande in force and be obeyed and performed in all and every parte thereof as well as on the parte and behalfe of the said defendants and every of them, their heires and assignes according to the true meaning of the said Certificate." (Folio 102: Jovis xi die Maii. 1615.)
A Parish record still exists which, though undated, is evidently contemporary with this Decree, giving "Every man's severall proportion of Stipend for ye Parish of Cawthorne," the Christian names and surnames of several of the "defendants" being the same, the "some tot: being xvii lbs.," and the amount payable from several farms being the very same as their "Vicar's Pension" at the present day.
The Certificate of the Court of Exchequer goes on to say, "and the other seventeene to make upp the said some of twentie pounds to be raised of the persons hereinafter named and their assignees only of the said tythes hereafter mentioned in manner and form following: vis., of Thomas Barneby Esq. out of the tythes of Barneby Hall and ground belonging to the same £1 4s. 0d;***Cawthorne Hall (Matthew Wentworth) £1 4s. 0d.; Robert Burdett 13s. 4d; William Greene 14s. 8d.; Hillhouse 4s.; Elmhirst 9s.; The Banckes 5s. 4d.; Richard Hartley of Cannon
