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Benefice of BISLEY

(WO.GL.ST.14) 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:
£ 46. 13s. 4d.

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:
BISLEY
SO903059 ded: ALL SAINTS     
PORTION OF FIRST RECTOR (portion)
PORTION OF SECOND RECTOR (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:
secular, Edmund de Mortuomari 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:
Prima portio in ecclesia de Bysel'     
£ 25. 13s. 4d.
38.5m.
Secunda portio     
£ 14. 6s. 8d.
21.5m.
Preter hec portio vicarii     
Excluded from the moiety
£ 6. 13s. 4d.
10m.

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     Notes:
1 Excluding consideration of the vicarage, some of the references in the episcopal registers are to two portions and a third portion (see RegGGiff 140, 267 and RegCobham 228): this can only mean that the first portion as listed here was considered as two thirds of the church and the second portion as the third part of the church. The two portions as listed here were in separate secular patronage, and it was the rector of the first portion who presented to the vicarage (see RegGeyn 102, RegCobham 245). See also VCHGloucs11 32.     

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