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Benefice of CHANCELLORSHIP OF HEREFORD CATHEDRAL

(HE.HE.HE.02) 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:
£ 20. 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:
CHANCELLORSHIP OF HEREFORD CATHEDRAL (collegiate dignity or prebend comprising largely of spiritualities)
LITTLE HEREFORD (prebendal church)
SO553680 ded: ST MARY MAGDALENE     

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:
ecclesiastical, Hereford, bishop, 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.) dignity 1287

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:
Cancellarius in ecclesia de Parva Herford' 2     
£ 20. 0s. 0d.
30m.

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     Notes:
1 The chancellorship was in the patronage of the bishop (LeNeveRev1Here 20-3); it was the chancellor who in all probability presented to the vicarage of Little Hereford, which is listed at HE.SH.BU.23.     
2 The church of Little Hereford comprised the spiritualities of the chancellorship; for the vicarage of Little Hereford see HE.SH.BU.23. The chapel of Ashford Carbonell, annexed to the chancellorship, (LeNeveRev1Here 21, ChartersHere xiv) appears to have been a chapel of the church of Little Hereford. The chancellor, Gilbert de Swinfield, held the prebend of Bartonsham but he did so individually and NOT as part of the chancellorship: LeNeveRev1Here 23, 31. For this prebend of Bartonsham see HE.HE.HE.05O. The 1300-1301 Hereford version of the taxatio shows (DHE 88v) that after Gilbert's death in 1299 the prebend of Bartonsham had passed to Richard de Swinfield and the new chancellor, Robert of Gloucester, had held on to his own prebend of Hunderton, HE.HE.HE.05M (see also LeNeveRev1Here 23, 31, 43).     

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