Valuations: Taxation (1291) and Valor Ecclesiasticus (1535)

The Records of St. Bartholomew's Priory and St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield: Volume 1. Originally published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1921.

Citation:

E A Webb, 'Valuations: Taxation (1291) and Valor Ecclesiasticus (1535)', in The Records of St. Bartholomew's Priory and St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield: Volume 1( Oxford, 1921), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/st-barts-records/vol1/pp378-384 [accessed 28 November 2024].

TAXATIO ECCLESIASTICA

Property (bona) of the Priory of St. Bartholomew.

(Translated from the Taxatio Ecclesiastica, 1291.)



	Temporalities.			Spiritualities.
	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.
p. 9 b. St. Dunstan in the West		17	6
All Hallows Honylane	2	17	0
St. Mary, Staining.	1	5	0
Alhallows the Wall		4	0
St. Gregory		2	0
St. Bartholomew the Less (by the Exchange)		8	0
St. Martin Outwich	1	0	0
St. Thomas Apostle		2	0
St. Mildred Walbrooke (Poultry)		2	6
St. Anthony		10	0
St. Botolph Aldersgate	7	3	6
St. Mary Woolnoth		15	0
St. Margaret Lothbury		12	2
St. John Zachary		2	0
St. Agnes Aldersgate		13	4
St. Stephen Jewry (Coleman)		6	4
St. Martin Ludgate	2	16	8
St. Bridget (Bride)		3	6
St. Peter Thames Street (Paul's Wharf)		8	0
St. Nicholas Tower (Acon)	2	0	4
St. Mary-le-Bow	4	10	0
St. Vedast Foster	1	9	0
St. Dunstan in the East	1	4	0
St. Michael Candlewick (Crooked Lane)		7	10
St. Augustine by the Gate		18	6
St. Lawrence Jewry	1	15	8
Holy Trinity the Less	1	4	0
St. Matthew Friday Street		3	6
St. Alban Wood Street		5	0
St. Mary Aldermanbury		3	0
St. Andrew Holborn		2	0
St. Peter Wood Street (Cheap)	3	4	0
St. Alphage.		7	6
St. Michael Cornhill.		19	0
St. Michael in Hoggen-lane (Wood Street)		13	0
St. Andrew Baynard (Wardrobe)		18	0
St. Martin Pomary (or Pomeroy)	3	8	0
Carried forward:	£44	0	10
Brought forward:	44	0	10
St. Giles, Cripplegate	1	18	8
St. Leonard next St. Martin (Eastcheap)		3	0
St. Olave (Hart Street)		6	0
St. Bennet Woodwharf (Paul's Wharf)	3	0	0
St. Nicholas Coleabby		6	8
St. Mary Magdalen in Fish Street		11	4
St. Michael of the Corne (Querne)		13	4
Islington, land rents and meadows	1	15	0
Alhallows, Bread Street.	1	16	0
St. Michael Paternoster Church (Royal)		3	4
Alhallows Grassechurch (Lombard Street)	1	13	4
St. Sepulchre without Newgate	15	18	2
Total London parishes	72	5	8
p. 13 b. In Tottenham (Middlesex), meadows		10	0
" Enfield (Middlesex), meadows		9	0
" Little Stanmore, lands, rents, and meadows	4	7	4
p. 15. " Amwell (Herts), meadows		12	0
" Meesden (Essex), lands and meadows		7	6
p. 17. " Sunbury (Middlesex), a portion of the church				1	6	8
p. 17 b. " Little Stanmore (Middlesex), the church				2	0	0
p. 19. " St. Michael's Bassishaw by a payment					2	0
p. 21. " Danbury (Essex), patronage of the church				3	0	0
" Theydon Bois (Essex), the church				4	13	4
p. 23 b. " Bradfield (Essex), the church				8	0	0
p. 25 b. " Bobbingworth (Essex), rents		8	0
p. 26. " Walthamstow (Essex), meadows	1	1	0
p. 28. " Bradfield (Essex), rents	1	0	0
p. 28 b. " Elmdon (Essex), rents		6	9
" Clavering and Langley (Essex), lands, meadows, rents, and customs	2	0	6
" Newport (Essex), lands, rents, and customs	6	0	1½
" Chrishall (Essex), land and rents	1	1	0
Carried forward:	£90	8	10½	£19	2	0
Brought forward:	90	8	10½	19	2	0
p. 29. In Depden (Essex), land		10	0
" Birchhanger (Essex), rent		2	0
" Colchester (Essex), rent		5	7
p. 46. " Mentmore (Bucks), land and rent			9	10
p. 33 b. " " " the church				8	0	0
p. 49. " Hockliffe (Beds.), rent		10	0
p. 52 b. " Shenley (Herts.), land		10	0
p. 116. " Lowestoft (Suffolk), church				4	13	4
" " " vicarage				4	6	8
" Gorleston (Suffolk), church				20	0	0
" " " vicarage				6	13	4
" Yarmouth (Little) (Suffolk), church				4	6	8
" " " " vicarage				4	6	8
" Mellys and Wenhaston (Suffolk), a portion of the church of Wenhaston				2	16	8
p. 133. " Thorpe (Suffolk), rent		15	0
Totals	93	11	3½	74	5	4
Total assessed value of the income of the monastery in the year 1291	£167		16		7½

VALOR ECCLESIASTICUS

Property of the Priory of St. Bartholomew.

(Translated from the Valor Ecclesiasticus, (fn. 1) 1535.)



	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.
The value of the monastery, courtyards, gardens, orchards, and houses in the Close—no profit rental shown
Rents in the City of London and suburbs				451	3	7
The manor of Canonbury (Middlesex)				26	8	7
Portepole "				10	0	0
Acton "				15	13	4
Hendon "				6	13	4
Great Stanmore "				20	0	0
Little Stanmore "				80	18	8½
Charlton or Chardington "					10	0
Fulpashe (fn. 2)				4	0	0
Carried forward: (fn. 3)				£615	7	6½
Brought forward:				615	7	6½
Average value in wood in Hendon				1	4	0
" " Little Stanmore				3	10	0
Perquisites in Great Stanmore				1	3	10
" Little Stanmore					8	2½
St. Sepulchre's Church with the tithe				42	0	0
Essex Rents:
Theydon Bois	4	0	0
Langley	6	0	0
Shortgrove	10	0	0
Danbury	1	0	0
Walthamstow	1	0	0
Woods, average value of, in Langley		6	0
" " " Shortgrove		4	0
Rectory and tithes in Bradfield	5	6	8
				27	16	8
Suffolk:
Manor of Gorleston	8	0	0
Rectory of Lowestoft	4	0	0
The church of Wenhaston	1	10	0
Oblations from Yarmouth (fn. 4)		13	4
				14	3	4
Hertfordshire:
Rents in Tewin	20	0	0
" Walhall	4	13	4
" Canon Holmes	4	13	4
Woods in Tewin, 20s.; in Walhall, 9s.	1	9	0
Perquisites in Tewin.		11	4
				31	7	0
Buckinghamshire:
Rectory and tithes, Mentmore				18	0	0
				755	0	7
Add difference to make the total (fn. 5) given in the Valor (as above)				17	19	6½
Total of the Monastery				£773	0	1½
Deductions.
London and Middlesex:
Rent paid St. Paul's from St. Sepulchre's				5	6	8
" Churchwardens St. Sepulchre's for the seven steers					1	0
Carried forward:				£5	7	8
Brought forward:	5	7	8
Rent paid Prioress Clerkenwell from St. Sepulchre's	2	5	0
" Chamberlain of London from St. Sepulchre's	0	8	0
" Churchwardens St. Sepulchre's for the chantry of William Andrewe, issuing from St. Sepulchre's	5	6	8
" Dean and Chapter St. Peter's York, from St. Sepulchre's	13	6	8
" Master of Hospital St. Thomas, Southwark, from St. Sepulchre's		2	0
" Abbess of Barking, from St. Botolph's, Aldersgate		17	0
" Dean of St. Martin's, from St. Botolph's, Aldersgate	1	0	0
" Abbot of Kirkestede, from St. Botolph's, Aldersgate		8	0
" Abbot of Malmesbury, from St. Bride's, Fleet Street		13	4
" St. Paul's, from St. James's Garlickhithe.	1	4	0
" Prior St. Mary Overy, from St. James's, Garlickhithe	1	2	0
" Churchwardens St. Mary Overy, from Alhallows Bread Street	4	3	4
" William Polkyn, from the 'Seven Steers', Bread Street		10	0
" Master St. James's (fn. 6) in the suburbs of London, from St. Nicholas Tower		6	0
" Abbot of St. Augustine's, Canterbury, from St. Dunstan's in the East		12	0
D'no Saunders, from Canonbury		5	0
Prebendary of Cantelands, (fn. 7) from Canonbury	1	6	8
Paid Master and Benchers of Gray's Inn, for the salary of a chaplain to celebrate in the chapel there, with 20s. paid yearly to the Master and Benchers	7	13	4
" Abbot and Convent St. Peter's, Westminster, from lands in Hendon		6	8
" Archbishop of Canterbury, for lands in Great Stanmore		6	2
" Abbot and Convent St. Albans, from lands in Great Stanmore	6	13	4
	54	2	10
Deduct error in addition in the Valor			4
Carried forward:	£54	2	6
Brought forward::				54	2	6
Annual fees paid Geoffrey Chambers, late chief steward, Great Stanmore	4	0	0
" " Thomas Roberts, late steward, Little Stanmore	1	0	0
" " John Burgoyne, Auditor	3	0	0
" " John Deane, Rector of Little Stanmore	6	13	4
" " Henry Downer, bailiff of Little Stanmore	1	13	4
" " Vicar of Little Stanmore, for enlarging and upkeep of vicarage	2	6	8
Archdeacon of Middlesex, visitation and procuration fees for the Rector of Little Stanmore		6	8
" " Archdeacon of London, for the Bishop's synodical council, for the Rector of St. Sepulchre's		4	0
				19	4	0
Hertfordshire:
Rent paid John Cutte, for land in Canon Holmes		18	4
" College of St. Lawrence Pountney.		3	0
" Abbot and convent St. Albans, from Walhall	1	6	5½
" Abbot and convent St. Peter's, Westminster, from Walhall.		7	8
				2	15	5½
Annual fees to John Kyngton, senior steward, Tewin					13	4
Buckinghamshire:
Rent paid Lord Bray, from the rectory, Mentmore		2	0
Annual payment to the Vicar of Mentmore, for the upkeep of the vicarage	2	13	0
				2	15	0
Total deductions				79	10	3½
Remaining clear				693	0	10
Add error in calculation in Valor					9	0
				£773	0	1½
The tenth (for which the valuation was made), instead of £69 7s., is shown as				69	0	7

COMPUTI MINISTRORUM

(Abstract translated from Ministers' Accounts, 32 Henry VIII (1540-1), 2396 m. 121–126.)

Late the Priory of St. Bartholomew in West Smithfield, next the City of London.



		£	s.	d.
Co. Middlesex:
Canonbury.	Farm of the Manor	24	16	11
Portepole.	" various fields in the parish of St. Pancras	9	6	8
Acton.	Farm of the Manor	17	0	0
Hendon.	" the Manor called Renters	6	13	4
Great Stanmore.	" the Manor	13	13	4
Little Stanmore.	" the Manor of Canons	13	6	8
"	" a house and building	20	0	0
"	" the green marsh and others lands	13	8	9
"	" that called Quarter lands	4	0	0
"	" other lands, &c.	47	3	11
Shardington.	" lands		10	0
Co. Essex:
Theydon Bois.	Farm of Rectory	4	0	0
Langley.	" Manor called Langley Hall	6	0	0
Shortgrove.	" Manor	10	0	0
Danbury.	Pension of the Abbot of Beeleigh (fn. 8)	0	0	0
Walthamstow.	Farm of meadows	1	0	0
Bradfield.	" Rectory	5	6	8
Co. Suffolk:
Gorleston.	Farm of Rectory	8	0	0
Lowestoft (or Leystoke).	Farm of Rectory	4	0	0
Wenhaston.	Pension from the Monastery of Blythburgh (fn. 9)	0	0	0
Co. Norfolk:
Yarmouth.	Farm		13	4
Co. Hertford:
Tewin.	Farm of Manor	20	0	0
Shenley.	" Manor of Holmes	4	13	4
St. Stephen's (St. Albans) Parish.	Farm of the Manor of Walhall	4	13	4
Co. Buckingham:
Mentmore.	Farm of Rectory	18	0	0
		£256	6	3