County or diocese: Winchester. Grant: Three papal tenths, 1301 Feb 26. Document type:...

County or diocese: Winchester.

Grant: Three papal tenths, 1301 Feb 26.

Document type: Assessment (communal).

Folios or pages: 2.

This bundle of two parchment sheets, both in a fragmentary state, once formed part of an assessment of temporalities (m. 1) and spiritualities (mm. 1d, 2) in the archdeaconry of Surrey, in the diocese of Winchester, for a clerical tenth, levied c. 1300.

From what remains of the document's heading on m. 1, it can be ascertained that it is for the first payment of the third year of a tax. The document seems to have been used to collect this payment of the tax, since rather than providing a full assessment, it gives only summary details, consisting, in the case of the temporalities, of only the names of religious houses and the total amount of tax due from them for this payment for all their temporalities in this archdeaconry. Similarly, the list of spiritualities gives only the payment due for one instalment of this tax (i.e., half of a tenth).

It is difficult to be definitive about which grant of taxation these fragments relate to, but the details are consistent with the three tenths imposed by Pope Boniface VIII in 1301. The first payment of the third year of that tax was due to be paid on 30 November 1303, and if this document relates to this tax, then it is likely to have been written just before that date. This surmise is consistent with the hand in which it was written.

Some of the entries can only be read with the aid of a UV lamp and many are still illegible.

This piece number was added to the E 179 series from unsorted miscellanea on 23 October 2012.