Benefice of HITCHIN
(LI.HU.HI.01) variantsThis 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. |
£ 45. 13s. 4d. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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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. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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1 The grid reference is for the placename since the chapel, at Preston in the manor of Dinsley belonging to the Templars, last mentioned in 1540, has not survived. The Victoria History of the Counties of England: Hertford, ed. W.Page, 4 vols & index vol. (London, 1902-23) vol 3 p.18 2 For the ordinations and extents of the vicarages here early in the century see (for Hitchin) LibAnt 28, RotWelles1 191-2 and RotWelles3 35-6 and (for Temple Dinsley and Great Wymondley) LibAnt 28-9 and RotWelles1 192. Rotuli Hugonis de Welles, Episcopi Lincolniensis 1209-1235, ed. W.P.W.Phillimore, F.N.Davis et al., 3 vols (CYS, 1907-09; and Lincoln Record Society, 3, 6, 9, 1912-14) vol 1 p.191-2 3 The entry in BLIB 139 evidently deals with four vicarages: Vicarie capelle de Dinesle deducta pensione, de Wymundele Magna, et Parva, et de Piritone vix valent servitium. For the other three see LI.HU.HI.01/0B, LI.HU.HI.07/0A and LI.HU.HI.U12. British Library, Cotton Vespasian E xxii, fos 121-144v (archdeaconries of Oxford, Buckingham, Bedford, Huntingdon & part only of Northampton, excepting also the deanery of Rutland) (edited in RegPeterborough 300-40) p.139
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