medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
In a message dated 22/11/2006 13:31:28 GMT Standard Time,
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<<have you looked at tax records to find names of the clergy attached to the
church? Most famous are the clerical poll taxes of 1377-81 but there are a
number of other 'poll-type' taxes, particularly in the fifteenth cenutry
that may help.>>
Thank you for this, Rosemary, and for the news of the York project, which
looks invaluable.
Unfortunately, although the Deanery of St Buryan (of which St levan was a
dependent chapelry) was of course taxed and thus appears in records of this
type, the Dean and Prebendaries -- whose names are the only ones to appear --
were all absentees. The curates who actually did the work are anonymous.
There is one name which appears in the 1520s, William Alsa, priest, resident in
St Levan, and I got very excited, but Prof Nicholas Orme thinks he was a
chantry priest, a freelance, so to speak; and as the chantry was in St Buryan,
not a St Levan man even then.
As I have mentioned before, the Deanery was a Royal Peculiar, and so the
bishops' records are also not much use.
None of this means that there does not somewhere survive a record which
causally reveals the names of some of these men, but it looks as though it will
be pure chance which discovers it!
Yours gratefully
Susan
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