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Dear Susan
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.
This gives me the opportunity to do something I should have arleady done,
which is to tell you all of the research project just begun: centred on
York University and directed by Bill Sheils, with my assistance, is the
project on clerical taxation of England and Wales c1200-1664. This aims to
add to the exisitng database for lay taxation, descriptions of all records
in the National Archives class E179 relating to the taxation of the clergy.
We have already added information on all clerical taxes granted during the
period and are now working through the records for each diocese. Carlisle
and Ely are already on the data base and Canterbury and St Davids are
actively being worked on. It will be some time before we get to Exeter, and
even longer before we tackle royal peculiars that may have been dealt with
separately, but, when we do, there may be something of use to you.
The data base is already available at
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/e179/. All information is available as
soon as it is added, so it should be worth checking from time to time.
Should you like any more information about the project, please do not
hesitate to contact me. I should be talking about it a little more at Leeds
IMC 2007.
Best wishes
Rosemary Hayes
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From: "Susan Hoyle" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 6:23 PM
Subject: Re: [M-R] More St. Levan panels
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
> Well, Jon, St Levan church is pretty rude and simple. (I left the pillar
> in,
> hoping someone would notice!) Given the way the Deanery of St Buryan was
> milked by the Crown it's a wonder St Levan is still there.
>
> I have no mediaeval names at all for the church. You may recall that St
> Levan was for most purposes a dependent chapel of St Buryan, which was a
> Deanery
> and a Royal Peculiar, stolen by the Crown c 1300. The Duke of Cornwall
> or
> the King used it to provide their Clerks with an income. The chief
> surviving
> records, such as they are, date from the decade when King's College
> Cambridge
> held the Deanery, and are tithe lists -- very nice, but irrelevant here.
> For the rest, all there is is what amounts to an incomplete list of Deans
> and
> Prebendaries, all non-resident (mostly not even resident in Cornwall, let
> alone St Buryan, and forget St Levan). There is a William Alsa, priest,
> listed
> in St Levan the 1820s (eventually he was hanged after the Prayer Book
> Rebellion, Vicar of Gulval by then), but the expert opinion is that when
> he was in St
> Levan he was a freelance, possibly a guild priest. I'd like to think he
> was
> the curate, but there are few grounds for that. Nothing else.
>
> Susan, who lives at what was called Alsa, and likes to think of William
> being here
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