By the Rev. J. Wilkinson. 51 



wool, and lambs; if this ninth should exceed the amount of the 

 assessment made, 1291, in Pope Nicholas* valor (called in this in- 

 quisition "the tax"), the larger sum was to be collected; if, on 

 the contrary, the ninth should be less than the valor, then the 

 lower sum should be collected, and an account given of the defici- 

 ency. Thus the parishioners here say, that the assessment in the 

 valor was £10; but that their return is £8 only, the difference 

 (forty shillings) being owing to the exemption, from such taxation, 

 of the glebe worth 13s. 4d., and the tithes worth 26s. 8d. The 

 fifteenth appears to have applied only to towns and cities, and 

 therefore was not to be assessed here. 



The valuation of Pope Nicholas continued in force, till, the first 

 fruits and tenths being transferred to the Crown, a new survey was 

 made by commissions issued by the King under an act of Parlia- 

 ment, 26 Henry VIII. c. 3. This, which is still in force for pay- 

 ment of first fruits and tenths, is called Liber regis, or valor ecclesi- 

 asticus. The return of this parish is as follows : " Rectory of 

 Broughton Gifford, with the fraternity there. Henry Yong, 



£ s. d. 

 20 8 0 



13 3i 



19 14 8f 



39 51" 



My next extract 1 is from the report of the Commissioners ap- 

 pointed to survey Chantry property in the Diocese of Sarum in 



1 One copy of the report of the Chantry Commissioners (from which this 

 extract is taken) is in the Cathedral muniment room at Salisbury. Hechyn is 

 the same as Heches, like housen for houses, the regular Anglo-Saxon plural 

 termination. The Recheswere the Roches of Bromham, of which family Sir 

 John Roches Kt. died seized of lands and tenements here in 1401, and his niece 

 Edith Roches married Harry Tropenell of Great Chalfield. 



E 2 



Rector. 



Value per annum 



Deductions. s. d. 



Annual pension to the 



Abbot of Malmesbury ..68] 

 Procurations to the > 

 Archdeacon . . . . 7 7| j 

 Balance 



Tenth thereof. . 



