The clergy of England, like the laity, were subjected to a series of poll-taxes within a short space of time. This volume prints the surviving assessments made of the clergy of the diocese of Lincoln in the years 1377, 1379 and 1381. Most of the material relates to the old county of Lincoln (now Lincolnshire and South Humberside) but there are also surveys of Leicestershire, Rutland, most of Bedfordshire, and parts of Huntingdonshire and Hertfordshire. These poll-tax assessments represent what was virtually a census of the clerical population whose members were listed parish by parish. The documents show us not only that the number of clergy was very great, but that most were without benefices, and that they tended to gather in areas of high prosperity. Monks and nuns are also listed so that we can see how many members each monastery had. Publication of this material offers the opportunity to make a reassessment of the clergy and, hence the church of late medieval England. An extensive introduction describes the gathering of these taxes and the value and limitations of the documents themselves.
Volume 81 Clerical Poll Taxes of the Diocese of Lincoln 1377-1381
Editor A.K. McHardy
Date There is no society year ending date from Volume 81 onwards
Publication Date 1992
Size 235 x 155 mm
Language English, Appendix A is in Latin
Publisher A Lincoln Record Society Publication Published by the Boydell Press an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3DF and of Boydell & Brewer Inc. PO Box 41026, Rochester, NY 14604, USA
Printer St. Edmundsbury Press, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984
ISBN 0 901503 54 1
Note On reverse of the Contents page This volume is published with the help of a grant from the late Miss Isobel Thornley’s Bequest to the University of London
Content Frontispiece map of the Lincoln Diocese, 1 page
Contents, 1 page
Maps, 1 page
Abbreviations, 1 page
Dedication, 1 page
Introduction, 27 pages
Map – Leicestershire, showing ecclesiastical divisions, 1 page
Map – Lincolnshire, showing ecclesiastical divisions, 1 page
Taxation of the Clergy 1377-1381, 174 pages
Note on the parish maps, 1 page
Parish map of Leicestershire and list of parishes, 4 pages
Parish map of Lincolnshire and list of parishes, 9 pages
Appendix A Arrangements for Collecting the Subsisidy of £50,000, 1371, 2 pages
Appendix B Collectors of Clerical Taxes in the Diocese of Lincoln, 3 pages
Index, 59 pages
Price on dust jacket £19.50 (Boydell & Brewer Ltd sticker)
Dust jacket blurb The clergy of England, like the laity, were subjected to a series of poll-taxes within a short space of time. This volume prints the surviving assessments made of the clergy of the diocese of Lincoln in the years 1377, 1379 and 1381. Most of the material relates to the old county of Lincoln (now Lincolnshire and South Humberside) but there are also surveys of Leicestershire, Rutland, most of Bedfordshire, and parts of Huntingdonshire and Hertfordshire. These poll-tax assessments represent what was virtually a census of the clerical population whose members were listed parish by parish. The documents show us not only that the number of clergy was very great, but that most were without benefices, and that they tended to gather in areas of high prosperity. Monks and nuns are also listed so that we can see how many members each monastery had. Publication of this material offers the opportunity to make a reassessment of the clergy and, hence the church of late medieval England. An extensive introduction describes the gathering of these taxes and the value and limitations of the documents themselves.
Reviews `Of considerable interest for historians of medieval Lincolnshire, which is at the same time of importance for historians of late medieval English church generally - these amount effectively to a census of the clereical population in the late fourteenth century.' LINCS HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY
`Edition of great importance for students of secular and monastic history of the period, for settlement historians and for consideration of the development of personal names will continue to be a mine of useful information for a very long time.' HISTORY
Editor A.K. McHardy
Date There is no society year ending date from Volume 81 onwards
Publication Date 1992
Size 235 x 155 mm
Language English, Appendix A is in Latin
Publisher A Lincoln Record Society Publication Published by the Boydell Press an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3DF and of Boydell & Brewer Inc. PO Box 41026, Rochester, NY 14604, USA
Printer St. Edmundsbury Press, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984
ISBN 0 901503 54 1
Note On reverse of the Contents page This volume is published with the help of a grant from the late Miss Isobel Thornley’s Bequest to the University of London
Content Frontispiece map of the Lincoln Diocese, 1 page
Contents, 1 page
Maps, 1 page
Abbreviations, 1 page
Dedication, 1 page
PATRI MEO
W.D.McH
DONUM INDIGNUM
Introduction, 27 pages
Map – Leicestershire, showing ecclesiastical divisions, 1 page
Map – Lincolnshire, showing ecclesiastical divisions, 1 page
Taxation of the Clergy 1377-1381, 174 pages
Note on the parish maps, 1 page
Parish map of Leicestershire and list of parishes, 4 pages
Parish map of Lincolnshire and list of parishes, 9 pages
Appendix A Arrangements for Collecting the Subsisidy of £50,000, 1371, 2 pages
Appendix B Collectors of Clerical Taxes in the Diocese of Lincoln, 3 pages
Index, 59 pages
Price on dust jacket £19.50 (Boydell & Brewer Ltd sticker)
Dust jacket blurb The clergy of England, like the laity, were subjected to a series of poll-taxes within a short space of time. This volume prints the surviving assessments made of the clergy of the diocese of Lincoln in the years 1377, 1379 and 1381. Most of the material relates to the old county of Lincoln (now Lincolnshire and South Humberside) but there are also surveys of Leicestershire, Rutland, most of Bedfordshire, and parts of Huntingdonshire and Hertfordshire. These poll-tax assessments represent what was virtually a census of the clerical population whose members were listed parish by parish. The documents show us not only that the number of clergy was very great, but that most were without benefices, and that they tended to gather in areas of high prosperity. Monks and nuns are also listed so that we can see how many members each monastery had. Publication of this material offers the opportunity to make a reassessment of the clergy and, hence the church of late medieval England. An extensive introduction describes the gathering of these taxes and the value and limitations of the documents themselves.
Reviews `Of considerable interest for historians of medieval Lincolnshire, which is at the same time of importance for historians of late medieval English church generally - these amount effectively to a census of the clereical population in the late fourteenth century.' LINCS HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY
`Edition of great importance for students of secular and monastic history of the period, for settlement historians and for consideration of the development of personal names will continue to be a mine of useful information for a very long time.' HISTORY