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Benefice of YEOVIL

(BW.WE.MA.01) 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:
£ 12. 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:
YEOVIL (duplicate main benefice entry)
ST556160 ded: ST JOHN THE BAPTIST     
VICARAGE
BERMONDSEY PRIORY, LONDON, PRIOR £ 2. 0s. 0d. (portion)
MONTACUTE PRIORY, SOMERS., PRIOR £ 5. 0s. 0d. (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, John Maltravers 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:
Vicaria de Genele 2     
Excluded from the moiety
£ 5. 0s. 0d.
7.5m.
Portio prioris de Bermundeseye in eadem     
variants
£ 2. 0s. 0d.
3m.
Portio prioris de Monte Acuto     
variants
£ 5. 0s. 0d.
7.5m.

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     Notes:
1 The rector here at the time of the taxatio happened to be also the precentor of Wells cathedral: see BW.BA.WC.02. It was clearly the individual rector who presented to the vicarage, as in 1315 and 1316: RegDrok 82, 109.     
2 The church of Yeovil (that is, the rector's portion) was assessed at 25l.13s.4d. and listed with the precentorship of Wells cathedral, because the precentor at the time happened to be rector of Yeovil: see BC 72v and BW.BA.WC.02.     

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