County or diocese: Hereford. Grant: Six papal tenths, 1289 Oct 7. Document type:...

County or diocese: Hereford.

Grant: Six papal tenths, 1289 Oct 7.

Document type: Assessment (communal).

Folios or pages: 1.

This is a fragment of an assessment of benefices, for an unidentified clerical tenth which, from the script, probably dates from the late thirteenth or early fourteenth century, for the archdeaconry of Salop in the diocese of Hereford.

It was not previously included in the series catalogue and therefore, not identified.

The fragment consists of a strip of parchment from the left-hand edge of a larger membrane and has suffered extensive damage.

In the past, some of the text has been coated in gall to make faded areas clearer, but the gall has left a brown stain and some parts of the document are almost illegible, even under ultra-violet light.

The surviving text on the dorse is almost completely illegible.

The list of benefices appears to follow the end of the list of spiritualities for the deanery of Clun and the beginning of the list of spiritualities for the deanery of Wenlock printed in the |Taxatio|.

The list in the present document is barely legible, but has been indexed according to the printed edition.

Judging from the script, the fragment might once have formed part of the same document to which the membrane now at E 179/30/5a belonged.

That fragment contains part of the opening section of the |Taxatio| for the archdeaconry of Salop, and two further fragments, now at E 179/30/5 and E 179/58/9, perhaps belonged to the same roll or a parallel roll for the archdeaconry of Hereford, as discussed in J. H. Denton, 'The Valuation of the Ecclesiastical Benefices of England and Wales in 1291-2', |Historical Research| (October 1993), Vol. LXVI, no. 161, p. 245).