medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
If we are going beyond the date and location of the original query, it is
possible to get some idea of the number of monks and other religious in
England and Wales in the later middle ages from the Clerical Poll Taxes of
1377, 1379, 1380 and 1381. They have been so used, for example, by Hadcock
and Knowles, Medieval Religious Houses (1971) and the Religious History
volumes of the Victoria County History series. Also, for those interested in
the mendicants (Paul?), the 1406 and 1449 'poll-type' taxes on stipendiary
chaplains included mendicants receiving fees. To access the work done in
recent years on clerical taxation in England and Wales, go to
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/e179. If anyone would like me to send them our
leaflet on the records of clerical taxation, I can do so in an email
attachment but will not clog up the list with it!
It might be possible to compare the numbers listed in the poll taxes with
accounts of provisions where they survive for the same period and house (I
am not sure if Barbara Harvey did this for Westminster). From this, one
might be able to get an idea of how much grain, wine, etc was provided for
how many people, which would help with further calculations.
Rosemary Hayes
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