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Benefice of GREAT ABINGTON

(EL.EL.CP.23) 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:
£ 14. 0s. 0d.

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:
GREAT ABINGTON
TL531488 ded: ST MARY by 1518     
HATFIELD BROAD OAK PRIORY, ESSEX, PRIOR £ 3. 6s. 8d. (portion)

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:
secular, 1     

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 Habington' Magna     
£ 10. 13s. 4d.
16m.
Portio prioris de Hatfeld in eadem 2     
£ 3. 6s. 8d.
5m.

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     Notes:
1 For the secular patronage here see VCHCambs6 14 (the church became appropriated to Hatfield Broad Oak priory, Essex, by 1344, with ordination of a vicarage: for a presentation to the vicarage in 1344 see ElyDRem64(1890) 461); and for an inventory of the church c.1278 see ArchElien 64.     
2 As accepted in VCHEssex2 108 there can be little doubt that the portion here belonged to Hatfield Broad Oak Priory rather than Hatfield Peverel Priory, the former being much larger and wealthier than the latter.     

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