County or diocese: Hereford. Grant: Clerical tenth. Document type: Schedule of exemptions....

County or diocese: Hereford.

Grant: Clerical tenth.

Document type: Schedule of exemptions.

Folios or pages: 1.

This is a single membrane of parchment containing a schedule of exemptions for an unidentified clerical tenth, perhaps, from the script, dating from the mid to late fifteenth century, for the diocese of Hereford.

The document has suffered much damage; the top left-hand corner has been badly affected by damp and parts have rotted away.

The bottom right-hand corner has also been eaten away, probably by rodents.

The surviving text is soiled and faded, but legible under ultra-violet light.

The document is undated, but the script would suggest a date between about 1450 and 1475 or perhaps later.

The schedule was probably once attached to an appointment of collectors, but is now detached.

The list of benefices in the archdeaconry of Hereford in the upper section of the schedule is laid out in columns in two rows, and these columns are intended to be read from left to right across the first row, then across the second row, and have been indexed accordingly.

The list of benefices in the archdeaconry of Salop towards the foot of the document is also laid out in columns and rows; the three columns in the first row relate to the deanery of Burford, to be read across the row.

In the second row, there is a column each for the deaneries of Stottesdon and Ludlow, two columns for the deanery of Clun and one for the deanery of Wenlock.

In the final row, there are two columns for the deanery of Pontesbury, with a heading for that deanery on either side of them.