Benefice of GREAT WENHAM
(NW.SF.SA.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. |
£ 8. 19s. 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. | |||||||||
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. | |||||||||
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. | |||||||||
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. |
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1 How the mediety appropriated to Lewes priory was served is not clear: there are no recorded presentations to it (TannerIndex 1138) and it could have been served by a chaplain appointed directly by the priory. That it was called a 'mediety' in the taxatio texts implies that it embodied patronage rights and was not a simple portion of the tithes, and the presentations of the secular patron in 1304, 1331 and 1340 (though not in 1349) were to a mediety. NRO DNReg/30 & /31 (Thomas Tanner's indexes of the Norwich episcopal registers) p.1138 2 The church here was valued in the 'Snailwell' listing of perhaps 1276 at Lsd4.6.8., but this must represent the value of a mediety. The value of the whole church in the Norwich assessment of 1254 had been Lsd8.0.0.: BL Harl. 1005 fo. 32v (HudsonNorTax 142). We can, therefore, deduce with confidence that it is the two medieties that have the taxatio value of Lsd8.13.4. W.Hudson, 'The Norwich Taxation of 1254, so far as relates to the diocese of Norwich, collated with the Taxation of Pope Nicholas in 1291', in Norfolk Archaeology (published by Norfolk & Norwich Archaeological Society), 17 (1910), 46-157 p.142
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