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Benefice of STEEPLE BUMPSTEAD

(LO.MI.HD.08) 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:
£ 6. 10s. 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:
STEEPLE BUMPSTEAD
TL679411 ded: ST MARY     
PORTION BELONGING TO LONDON ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL     (portion)
PORTION APPROPRIATED TO STOKE BY CLARE PRIORY, SUFF (portion)
    VICARAGE
COLCHESTER, ESSEX, ST JOHN'S ABBEY, ABBOT £ 0. 10s. 0d. (portion)

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, London, St Paul's cathedral, collegiate church, non-monastic 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

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:
Portio abbatis Colec' in Bunstede Parva     
£ 0. 10s. 0d.
0.8m.
Portio prioris de Stokes ibidem     
£ 2. 13s. 4d.
4m.
Ecclesia de Bumsted     
(added because of new low threshold of papal tax of 1302-3)
£ 3. 6s. 8d.
5m.

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     Notes:
1 It seems clear that this church was appropriated to St Paul's cathedral. (But it is far from clear why, belonging to the wealthy cathedral, its value was not counted as taxable until the threshold was temporarily lowered in 1302-3: see PLOA1c. If there had been a reason for its exclusion in 1291-2, then the same reason, one imagines, should have applied whatever the threshold.) A portion of tithes was retained by the priory of Stoke by Clare, along with the right to present to the vicarage, which had been assessed at the time of or shortly after the 1254 taxatio. See NewcourtRep2 110-11 and LuntNorwich 355 (SPM WD9 79v).     

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