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Benefice of ARCHDEACONRY OF HEREFORD

(HE.HE.HE.04)

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:
£ 23. 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:
ARCHDEACONRY OF HEREFORD (collegiate dignity or prebend comprising largely of spiritualities)
UNSPECIFIED INCOME (ANNEXED TO THE ARCHDEACONRY OF HEREFORD) (uncertain income attached to prebend)

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:
Archidiaconatus Herford' 2     
£ 20. 0s. 0d.
30m.
Incerti proventus eiusdem dignitatis     
variants
£ 3. 0s. 0d.
4.5m.

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     Notes:
1 For the bishop's patronage of the archdeaconry see LeNeveRev1Here 25 and LeNeveRev2Here 5-6.     
2 Neither item of spiritual income here is specified. The archdeacon of Hereford, Richard of Hereford, held the prebend of Pratum Minus at the time of the taxatio (valued among the temporalities at 6d.) but he did so individually and not as part of the office of archdeacon: see HE.HE.HE.05E and LeNeveRev1Here 25, 55. The 1295 Exchequer version of the taxatio shows that the prebend of Pratum Minus had passed to William of Kingscote (de Kyng) and the archdeacon had obtained the prebend of Warham assessed then at 6l.16s.8d. and previously held by the treasurer (PHE1a 1d, as T 168, PHE3 2d, CU 48); and the 1300-1301 Hereford taxatio shows (DHE 87v-88, where the extent of the prebend of Warham is clarified) that the situation for the archdeacon was now unchanged.     

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