Collectio rerum ecclesiasticarum de diœcesi Eboracensi; or, Collections relative to churches and chapels within the diocese of York. To which are added collections relative to the diocese of Ripon, Volume 1

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Page iv - ... or value of the church were assigned ; and when the ninth did not exceed the tax, it was assigned for cause thereof, that within the valuation or tax of the church there were other articles included besides corn, wool, and lambs, such as the dos or glebe of the church, tithe of hay, and other tithes. And if any abbey, priory, or other religious corporation, had property within any parish, the ninth arising from such property was found and returned.
Page ii - Villans of every village, were to enquire into the name of the place, who held it in the time of King Edward, who was the present possessor, how many hides in the Manor, how many...
Page iii - Taxation,) if the value of the ninth amounted to as much as the tax, and to levy more where the true value of the ninth should be found to exceed the tax ; but should the value of the ninth be less than the tax, they were directed to levy only the true value of the ninth and to disregard the tax ; and to gain correct information of these facts, they were directed to take inquisitions (the Records now published) upon the oath of the parishioners in every parish.
Page iii - ... how many cotarii, how many servi, what free-men, how many tenants in socage, what quantity of wood, how much meadow and pasture, what mills and fish-ponds, how much added or taken away, what the gross value in King Edward's time, what the present value, and how much each free-man or soch-man had or has.
Page xiii - Dunelm. Catalogues of the Library of Durham Cathedral at various periods. from the Conquest to the Dissolution ; including Catalogues of the Library of the Abbey of Hulne, and of the MSS. preserved in the Library of Bishop Cosin at Durham.
Page 144 - ... hour) two mendicant ecclesiastics, came to crave her charity, telling her at the same time that they were going to Rome, where her husband, Sir John, was then residing. On this intimation, she sat down and wrote a letter to her husband, narrating to him the horrid scene...
Page 49 - March, 1545, giving his soul to God Almighty, St. Mary, and All Saints, and his body to be buried in the...
Page iii - All this was to be triply estimated ; first, as the estate was in the time of the Confessor ; then, as it was bestowed by king William; and, thirdly, as its value stood at the formation of the Survey. The jurors were, moreover, to state whether any advance could be made in the value.
Page iii - In these Records it appears that the parishioners of every parish found upon their oath the true value (sometimes separately) of the ninth of corn, wool, and lambs; then the amount of the ancient tax of the church was stated, and afterwards the causes of the ninth not amounting to the tax or value of the church were assigned ; and when the ninth did not exceed the tax, it was assigned for cause thereof, that within the valuation or tax of the church there were other articles included besides corn,...
Page iv - ... Receivers, Auditors, Sheriffs, Justices, and other Civil Officers, whose names at the time of the Survey are mentioned ; 2 the sums annually expended by Monasteries in charity ; the amount distributed on anniversaries, with the names of the parties who were thus commemorated ; the names of Priors, Abbots, and all other Incumbents, and sometimes of their immediate predecessors; together with 1 Their instructions, which are very minute, are printed in the first volume.

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