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Benefice of WELTON WESTHALL (PREBEND)

(LI.LK.LI.18) 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:		 £ 10. 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:
WELTON WESTHALL (PREBEND) (collegiate dignity or prebend comprising largely of spiritualities)

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, Lincoln, 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.) prebend/prebendal church 1294

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     Full entry:
Ecclesia de Welton' Westhall' subdecani 2     
£ 10. 0s. 0d.
15m.

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     Notes:
1 The bishop's collation in 1294 was to the subdeanship with the prebend of Welton Westhall: RegSutton8 209. For the vicarage of Welton see LI.LK.LI.20.     
2 For this prebend of Welton Westhall, annexed to the subdeanship of the cathedral, see LeNeveRev1Linc 108-9 (and for the subdeanship see also LI.LK.DI.04). It comprised not only a portion of the church of Welton but apparently also (though not mentioned in the taxatio texts) portions in the churches of Kirton in Lindsey and Hibaldstow (for these two churches see LI.LK.LI.24). Four Welton prebends (LI.LK.LI.17-20) are listed specifically under the name of the church of Welton, and a fifth is listed separately, see LI.LK.LI.24. The vicarage of Welton is listed specifically as of the first four prebendaries, though it seems unlikely that there was any intention to exclude the fifth Welton prebendary, since all five shared the right to present a vicar (see LeNeveRev1Linc 104-5). To avoid needless repetition both the church of Welton and the vicarage of Welton are included here only with the fourth of the prebends: that is, the prebend of Welton Beckhall, for which see LI.LK.LI.20. It should be added that it seems that the assessed income of the Welton prebends derived from the manor of Welton as well as its church, and this may have been especially the case in respect of the fifth prebend.     

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