A HISTORY OF SUFFOLK 



were in the Cambridgeshire half of Fordham deanery. Against these we have 

 to reckon the nine churches of the South Elmham peculiar, which are not 

 given in the Norwich Taxation, though they appear separately at the end of 

 the Snaylwell list, 1 and were entered as a deanery in 1291. It therefore 

 follows that the full number of Suffolk parishes given in 1256 was 484.* 



This Valor shows that the portions or pensions taken out of many of the 

 churches exceeded that which was retained by the rector. Thus in Stow 

 deanery, the rector of Wetherden had nine marks, but the portion assigned 

 to the priory of Blackborough was ten marks, and the schoolmaster of 

 St. Edmunds also drew 40^. ; the rector of Harleston in the same deanery 

 drew ten marks, but the monks of Stoke had thirty marks from that church. 



The parallel ' Snaylwell ' 3 valuation is clearly of a later date, and of the 

 next century ; it corresponds fairly closely in the value assigned to the general 

 benefices with the 1256 Valor. But there is a considerable rise in the worth 

 of the vicarages. Taking as an example the value of the four vicarages of 

 the first recorded deanery, that of Stow, the following is the result : 



VICARAGES, STOW DEANERY 



1256 'Snaylwell' 



Stow St. Peter . . 2 marks 7 marks 



Stow St. Mary . . 30*. 6d. 5 



Haughley . . . 30*. od. 6 



Newton . . . 40*. od. 5 



In 1291 came the general valuation of the church property of England, 

 usually known as that of Pope Nicholas/ It is of some interest to compare 

 the entries for this diocese with those of Bishop Calthorpe. 



In the course of the fifty odd years that had elapsed since the taking of 

 the Norwich Taxation, there had been a distinct increase in the definitely 

 ordained vicarages. The additional vicarages of Sudbury archdeaconry were : 

 In Thedwastre deanery, Barton and Pakenham ; in Fordham deanery (Suffolk 

 portion), Mowton ; in Sudbury deanery, Assington, Lawshall, and Acton ; 

 in Hartismere deanery, Eye, Mendlesham, and Wytham ; or nine in all. 

 The vicarages of Suffolk archdeaconry were not named in 1256. They 

 numbered twenty-two in 1291, and were as follows: In Bosmere deanery, 

 Coddenham and Battisford ; in Claydon deanery, Debenham; in Hoxne 

 deanery, Fressingfield and Hoxne ; in Lothingland deanery, Lowestoft and 

 Gorleston ; in Carlford deanery, Rushmere ; in Wangford deanery, Ilket- 

 shall St. Margaret, Bungay, and Mettingham ; in Dunwich deanery, Cratfield, 

 Chediston, Darsham, Bramfield, Yoxford, Benacre, Reydon, and North Hales; 

 in Orford deanery, Bruisyard and Aldeburgh ; in Colneys deanery, Walton ; 

 and none in the deaneries of Loes, Samford, Wilford, and Ipswich. The 

 majority of these twenty-two vicarages were founded before 1256; but in 

 various instances they were ordained in the second half of the thirteenth 

 century. 



1 South Elmham, ab antiquo, was not a deanery. The six South Elmham churches, with Bancroft, 

 Homersfield, and Flixton, were exempted from both synodals and procurations. 



1 In all printed references to the Norwich Taxation that we have seen the number has been given as 

 over 500. 



3 Snailwell is the name of a small parish in the Cambridgeshire portion of the deanery of Fordham. 

 Probably the commissioner or official who drew up this Valor used this place-name as a surname. John de 

 Snaylwell was sacrist of St. Edmunds in the middle of the fourteenth century. 



4 Pope NUb. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 115-23. 



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