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Benefice of MEARE

(BW.WE.PL.03) variants

This figure is the total assessed value of the benefice. Note that for a cathedral church a zero figure is given because its assessed value is derived from a number of holdings which are listed elsewhere in the taxatio text.

     Assessment for tax:
£ 4. 6s. 8d.

This section gives the modern name of the benefice together with the church dedication and the Ordnance Survey grid reference of the church (click the grid reference to locate the church building on Google Maps). Constituent parts of the benefice, such as vicarage, or any dependent chapels, pensions, portions and prebends, with their values, are also listed here.

     Benefice details:
MEARE
ST455416 ded: Dedicated in 1323 to the BLESSED VIRGIN MARY, ALL SAINTS AND ST BENIGNUS.      Later ST MARY THE VIRGIN.     

This section shows the patronage status of the benefice in 1291-2, the date of the taxatio, as much as can be found in contemporary or near-contemporary sources. The line includes the type of patronage: ecclesiastical, monastic or secular; the name of the patron; and for monastic patrons, the order of their religious house. If the patronage is ecclesiastical or monastic, then it may be an appropriated church. This is shown by the "If Appropriated" line below.

     Patronage:
monastic, Glastonbury, Abbey, Somers, Benedictine Monks 1     

This section states whether or not the benefice was appropriated at or near 1291-2, the date of the taxatio. The line may include the type of position instituted, collated or presented and the date, but this information is shown only if available from contemporary or near-contemporary sources.

     If appropriated:
No (inst.) rectory c.1284

This section displays the Latin text of the new edition of the taxatio based on the best sources available. Each line lists a taxable item and its assessed value in pounds, shillings and pence. Immediately below this figure is its equivalent value in medieval marks (NB.1mark=13s4d.) Click on the source button at the end of the item to see the full source reference for it.

     Full entry:
Ecclesia de Mere     
Excluded from the moiety
£ 4. 6s. 8d.
6.5m.

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     Notes:
1 Two mentions of a vicar here in RegDrok 75, 219 (1314, 1323) are perhaps in error, or at least misleading: the individual rector may have appointed a vicar. For the individual rector (in c.1284, 1330, 1332) see CartGlast1 (xv), RegShrews1 46 , 57, 85. However, the church was listed (without value) among the abbey's appropriated church in a version of the 1254 valuation: LuntNorwich 491. The church became appropriated between 1331/2 and 1351 (CartGlast1 (v-vi), 195, RegShrews2 671-2) and a vicarage was established. For a presentation to the vicarage in 1353 see RegShrews2 728.     

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