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Benefice of BURFORD

(HE.SH.BU.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:
£ 31. 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:
BURFORD
SO583680 ded: ST MARY     
MASTER STEPHEN DE ST GEORGE, FIRST PORTION-HOLDER (portion)
WILLIAM DE MORTIMER, SECOND PORTION-HOLDER (portion)
MASTER ROBERT DE LACY, THIRD PORTION-HOLDER (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, Hugh Mortimer 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 Burford' quoad portionem magistri Stephani de Sauncto Georgio     
£ 16. 13s. 4d.
25m.
Portio domini Willelmi de Mortuomar' in eadem     
£ 5. 6s. 8d.
8m.
Portio magistri Roberti de Lacy in eadem     
£ 9. 0s. 0d.
13.5m.

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     Notes:
1 Each of the prebendal portions here had a secular patron, but the evidence as set down in the bishops' registers alone (at least in their edited form and especially in this case RegSwin 533-4, 544) do not permit firm distinctions to be made between the portions, and it is thus not known for certain which patron presented to which portion as listed in the taxatio (though RegSwin 544 n.6 may indicate that Geoffrey de Cornewall presented a portioner in 1316 to replace William de Mortimer, the second portion-holder).     

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