SWINE, a parish, in the wapentake of HOLDERNESS,
East riding of the county of YORK,
comprising the chapelries of Bilton
and South Skirlaugh, and the townships of Benningholme
with Grange, Coniston, Ellerby, Ganstead,
Marton, Swine, Thirtleby, and Wyton, in the middle,
and the joint township of North Skirlaugh with Rowton,
in the northern, division of the wapentake of HOLDERNESS,
East riding of the county of YORK, and containing
1604 inhabitants, of which number, 229 are in the township
of Swine, 6 miles (N. N. B.) from Kingston upon
Hull. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry
of the East riding, and diocese of York, rated
in the king's books at £8, endowed with £200 private
benefaction, £200 royal bounty, and £1200 parliamentary
grant, and in the patronage of W. Wilberforce,
Esq. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is partly
in the early, and partly in the later, style of English
architecture. Six poor children are educated for £6
a year, the bequest of Mrs. Lamb. A nunnery of the
Cistercian order, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary,
was founded here, in the reign of Stephen, by Robert
de Verli, which at the dissolution possessed a revenue
of £ 134. 6. 9.