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Benefice of MELLS

(NW.SF.DU.28) 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:		 £ 0. 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:
MELLS
TM4057671 ded: ST MARGARET     
LONDON, ST BARTHOLOMEW'S PRIORY, PRIOR £ 2. 16s. 8d. (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:
secular, Peter de Melles , knight 2     

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 Sancti Bartholomei in Mellis et Wenanstone 3     
variants
£ 2. 16s. 8d.
4.2m.

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     Notes:
1 The small chapel of St Margaret is mapped as an ancient ruin at the grid reference given.     
2 Presentations here were to the chapel or free chapel, the patronage of which Peter de Melles had apparently recovered in a contest with Blythborough priory in 1286: TannerIndex 957.     
3 The church or chapel here, too low in value to be taxed and thus excluded, was valued in the 'Snailwell' listing of perhaps 1276 at Lsd2.16.8. (and in the Norwich valuation of 1254 at only 5s.): BL Harl. 1005 fo. 34 (HudsonNorTax 145). Doubt arises about the 'Snailwell' value since it corresponds to the taxatio value of the portion; but since the 'Snailwell' values are annotations of the Norwich assessment, it does perhaps refer, as was the usual pattern, to the benefice itself.     

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