The Parish consists of the following Townships, with the population of each, in 1841.

Howden...

Asselby.

2332

293

Barmby-on-the-Marsh Chapelry.... 506

A Committee of Justices for the East Riding of Yorkshire, under the provisions of 8 and 9 Victoria, cap. 111, in November, 1847, ordered that every parish and township in the Division of Howdenshire, should hereafter be assessed to the County Rate for the said East Riding, in the following proportions.

Wressle, Loftsome, Newsholme, and Brind 23 14 11

Yokefleet.

....

6 13 3

£229 11 7

This assessment was made on the full letting value of the property of the East Riding, including a mileage value on the Railroads and Stations in every Township. The assessment so made was then reduced to one penny in the pound, which reduction gave for the Division of Howdenshire the above result. Great irregularity had heretofore existed, but the rate now fixed upon is as just and equitable as can be arrived at.

The Palace,

Now converted into a farm house, was the favourite residence of many of the Bishops of Durham. Pudsey died here in March, 1194, and his remains were taken to Durham for interment. Kirkham died in this Palace, in August, 1260. He was embowelled here, and his remains were also carried to Durham.

A stone slab in the transept, near the north west pillar of the tower, covered so much of the latter Prelate as remained at Howden, The inscription round its edges has given rise to some acrimony and more dispute. Upon it is a cross flory, and the inscription, though greatly obliterated, clearly bears the name of Kirkham. He had previously been Dean of York.

Walter Skirlaw died at Howden, 1405. He also was embowelled here, and afterwards taken to Durham for interment. This celebrated Bishop and good man, was translated from Bath and Wells to Durham, in 1388. Skirlaugh in the Parish of Swine, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, was his birth place, and there he built the Chapel which still remains, a monument worthy of a man as illustrious for his munificence, as he was famous for his skill and taste in architecture.

He raised the tower of Howden Church, he

spent large sums of money on the Fabrick, and he constructed that architectural gem, the Chapter House. He also built the large Hall in the Palace, which he made his frequent residence. He was ultimately buried at Durham, where a sumptuous monument was placed over him, worthy of his liberality and his fame.

Thomas Langley, the successor of Skirlaw, had held the great seal, which he resigned when he became Bishop of Durham, in 1406. In 1411 he obtained a Cardinal's Hat from Pope John the twenty-third. He also made great improvements in the Manor of Howden. We are told that "he built the western gates to the Cemetery yard, with a beautiful lodge adjoining, where his arms were placed." This gateway and the arms still remain.

The celebrated Cuthbert Tunstall was Bishop of Durham at the Reformation. He succeeded Wolsey who died at Leicester on his way to London. Tunstall was translated from London in 1530, and he continued to hold his elevated situation through many disastrous years, and many and various persecutions, in the successive reigns of Henry the Eighth, Mary, Edward the Sixth, and Elizabeth. In 1559, he was deprived of his See, and he was placed in the custody of Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury,

This Bishop was probably the last who made Howden his residence, and an agreeable retreat he must have found it, from such great mental and political disquiet as we know he underwent. He was an author of some repute, an astute Ambassador,

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