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Benefice of CHILD OKEFORD

(SA.DO.SH.13) 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:
£ 8. 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:
CHILD OKEFORD
ST835127 ded: ST NICHOLAS     
MEDIETY, PORTION OF FIRST RECTOR (portion)
MEDIETY, PORTION OF SECOND RECTOR (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, Roger de Stok' 1     

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 Childaiford     
£ 8. 0s. 0d.
12m.

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     Notes:
1 This church was divided into medieties, with two rectors: RegGand 557, 662-3, RegMart1 103. It is thus not clear why, quite unusually in such a circumstance, only one value is listed for the church. The value has been divided here, to link each rector to a patron, but it should be remembered that a 'mediety' is not always precisely one half of the value of a church. There is an additional problem: the income of an individual rector who did not hold in plurality should not have been listed as taxable if that income was 4l. or less in value. Thus, it is just possible that one of the rectors here, had his portion been listed separately, would not have been liable for taxation (except when the threshold was lowered in 1302-3). This applies to only one rector since a portion of 1l.6s.8d. belonging to one of the rectors was attached to the immediately previous church in the list. With a total income for the rectors of 9l.6s.8d. it is most likely, however, that for each of them the division of assessed income exceeded 4l.     

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