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Benefice of BOXTED

(LO.CO.LE.34) 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:
£ 9. 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:
BOXTED
TL998333 ded: ST MARY      or ST PETER     
COLCHESTER, ESSEX, ST JOHN'S ABBEY, ABBOT £ 1. 0s. 0d. (portion)
COLCHESTER, ESSEX, ST BOTOLPH'S PRIORY £ 0. 13s. 4d. (portion)
    VICARAGE

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:
monastic, Horkesley alias Little Horkesley, Essex, priory, Cluniac Monks (alien) 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:
Yes (inst.) vicarage 1361

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 Boxsted     
variants
£ 7. 6s. 8d.
11m.
Portio abbatis Colcestr' ibidem     
£ 1. 0s. 0d.
1.5m.
Portio prioris Sancti Botulphi Colcestr' ibidem     
£ 0. 13s. 4d.
1m.

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     Notes:
1 By 1237, it seems, a mediety of the advowson was in the hands of the priory of Little Horkesley with the other mediety in the hands of St Paul's London and the bishop of London (NewcourtRep2 77-9). At the time of or shortly after the 1254 taxatio there was an assessed vicarage and the patron of the church was recorded as the bishop of London: SPM WD9 69 (LuntNorwich 347). However, by the time of the taxatio it seems clear that the church was appropriated to the priory of Little Horkesley (as indicated by the marginal comment in BLO 66v). The bishop, even so, apparently had the right to collate to the vicarage, as in 1361 and later: RegSudbury1 230 (the patron as given in the entry at 226 seems to be in error) and NewcourtRep2 79.     

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