Stowe MS 126

128. "LIBER TAXACIONUM : ex antiquissimo libro communiter verèque vocato Doome-Booke Ecclesiæ Cathedrali Sanctæ Trinitatis Norwicensis pertinente, transeripta, necnon alia, quoad Lynne Regis com. Norff., ex aliis libris (eandem Ecclesiam Cathedralem concernentibus) fideliter et memoriæ ergo collecta, per Tho. Searle, Notarium publicum." Apparently extracted from the " Norwich Domesday Book " (see Historical MSS. Commission, lst Report, 1870, App. p. 87, and cf. No. 9635 of the MSS. of John Moore, Bishop of Norwich [1691-1707], Catalogi Manuscriptorum Angliæ, 1697, vol. ii. p. 373). The volume begins (f 3) with copies of statutes of (a) Bishop Everard (ob. 1149), instructing all Deans, etc., of the Diocese to warn their parishioners to visit the mother church of Norwich once yearly, and to have collections made in each parish and paid to the Sacrist of the Cathedral; and (b) of Bishop William de Rawlee [1239-1242], enjoining all parish chaplains to visit the mother church "with solemn procession" once yearly, and to see that their parishioners do the same. Following these (f 3 b) is a list of the fifty-seven churches of the Deanery of Lynn, with the taxation of all tithable goods and ecclesiastical values arranged under parishes. Under Walpole St. Peter's (f 6) John de Brews and John de Langetone are mentioned. They were respectively Rectors of St. Andrews and of St. Peter's, Walpole, in temp. Edw. I. (cf. Blomefield's History of Norfolk, 1808, vol. ix. pp. 117, 119; Add. MS. 23,021, ff. 62, 63). The values also of these rectories as given by Blomefield for temp. Edw. I. agree with those in the MS. Under Hillington (f. 17) the names of Ralph Sursy and John Blome appear. The above-quoted authority gives them as Ralph Cyrezy and John Blomes, Rectors of the two moieties of Hillington in temp. Edw. I. At the end (f. 17 b) is " Taxacio Bonorum temporalium virorum Religiosorum in Decanatu de Lenne copiata per Registrum de Scaccario Domini Regis." The note on the upper margin of f 5 b, " Posted all, 1721," and others through the volume appear to be in the hand of Francis Blomefield, the historian of Norfolk. Paper; ff. 18. xviiith cent. With the initials T. M., i.e. Thomas Martin, of Palgrave, inside the cover. Folio.

Thomas Searle, Public Notary: Liber taxacionum, extracted from the Norwich Domesday Book by: 18th cent.

Richard Peade, Notary public at Norwich (1634): Wrote (?) MS.

See of Norwich: Notes relating to the history of: 17th cent.

See of Norwich: Liber taxacionum, from the Norwich Domesday Book: 18th cent.

includes:

• ff. 1, 2, 70 Thomas Martin, of Palgrave: Notes by: 18th cent.
• ff. 5 b-18 Francis Blomefield: Notes in his hand: 18th cent.
• f. 17 b Lynn Regis, Norfolk: List, taxation, etc., of churches in the Deanery of: temp. Edw. I.