Benefice of CHURCH LENCH
(WO.WO.PR.10) 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. |
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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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The Notes provide supplementary information relating to the benefice or to other data given in the display. Click on the source button at the end of the line to see the full reference(s) for the information. If the note contains a reference abbreviation that is not expanded in the source button, then it should be possible to use the abbreviation to find the full reference in the References Menu (forthcoming). If the note mentions a benefice by benkey rather than by name, the name can be found via the benkey search option, top-right on the screen. |
1 The position of this church was somewhat anomalous. It had passed to the nuns of Cook Hill in 1261, and its appropriation and the ordination of a vicarage were confirmed in 1279, but the patronage of the vicarage remained in secular hands: the patron, the earl of Warwick, presented in 1290 (RegGGiff 368, but surely to the vicarage not to the church). See VCHWorcs3 49. Since the church itself was appropriated to the nunnery, its value clearly should not have been included as taxable and it was deleted in the Exchequer MSS. It is no surprise, therefore, that it is on the list of exclusions for the moiety of 1294 (TWOM 239). The Victoria History of the Counties of England: Worcester, ed. J.W.Willis-Bund & H.Arthur Doubleday, 4 vols & index vol. (Westminster & London, 1901-26) vol 3 p.49 2 For the identification of this church see VCHWorcs3 45. Since it belonged to a poor nunnery it should not have been included as taxable by the assessors. By the time of the 1294 moiety the mistake had been recognised: see TWOM 239. The Victoria History of the Counties of England: Worcester, ed. J.W.Willis-Bund & H.Arthur Doubleday, 4 vols & index vol. (Westminster & London, 1901-26) vol 3 p.45
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