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Benefice of WESTHAM

(CI.LE.PE.38) 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:
£ 5. 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:
WESTHAM (duplicate main benefice entry)
TQ641045 ded: ST MARY     
VICARAGE

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, Grestain, dep. Eure, France, abbey, 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:
Yes

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:
Vicaria de Westhamme 2     
variants
Excluded from the moiety
£ 5. 6s. 8d.
8m.

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     Notes:
1 The patronage of a cathedral prebend was normally deemed to rest with the bishop (see ChartChich 3), but in this case the abbots of Grestain (dep. Eure, France) were ex officio prebendaries of Wilmington. In effect, therefore, the prebend, with its annexed churches of Wilmington, Willingdon, Eastdean and Westham, was appropriated to the abbot. The bishop perhaps collated to the vicarages; this was the case concerning Westham in 1256, with an extent of the vicarage: ChartChich 54, EEA23 168.     
2 The church here formed part of the prebend of Wilmington in the cathedral church of Chichester: see CI.00.CC.30 and LeNeveRev1Chich 45-6.     

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