R. of St. Nicholas in the town of Wyche, tithe, 46s. 8d.; Easter, 33s. 4d.; 4 days, 10s.; total, £4 10s.
Vicarage of St. Peter in the town of Wyche, tithe, 75s.; Easter, 40s.; 4 days, etc., 1s.; £6 7s.
V. of Bromsgrove with chapel of Norton, in the town of Wyche, farm of a garden, 2s.; tithe, etc., £7 5s.; Easter, £12; 4 days, 40s.; mortuaries, 1s.; chapel tithe, £4; Easter, £16; total, £41 8s.
It is worth while to note the proportion which the offerings bear to the other sources of income, and to make a few notes upon them. We find the customary offerings at the four seasons and at Easter, as enjoined in Saxon times (see p. 71); only in some places, instead of the “oblationes quatuor festorum,” we find that the times had been reduced to three, as in the rural deanery of Irchingfield, in the diocese of Hereford (“Valor,” iii. p. 19), where we find “oblationes ibidem III bus temporibus anni usualibus”; or to two, as at Leeds, in the diocese of York, “oblationes duo’ dierum ibid’ consuet’.” The Easter offering was the more important; it is spoken of in various ways, “Decima privata in Festo Paschæ,” “Decimæ personaliæ vocatæ Lenten Booke,” “Decimæ personaliæ voc’ le Estre Booke,” “In libro Paschali,” “In Rotulo Paschali,” “In Rotulo Quadragesimali,”[427] “Lent Decimæ,” and “Oblationes in Pasch’.”
In settling the vicarages these fees were usually assigned to the vicar, and in town parishes the appropriators often left the vicar very little besides to live upon. We give a few examples taken at random in illustration of these remarks:—
The Vicarage of Leeds, a house and garden valued at 15s. 8d.; tithes of lambs and wool, £13; Lent tithes and oblations in Pasch’, £26; oblations of two days ibid’ consuet’, £4 10s.; oblations within the church, £4 6s. 8d.; oblations of a chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 3s. 4d.; total, £48 15s. 8d.[428]
The Vicarage of Sheffield, a house and garden valued at 10s.; tithe of wool and lambs, 36s.; oblations, £6 18s.; Easter Book, £4; small tithe, 2s. 8d.; total, £13 6s. 8d.[429]
The Vicarage of Huddersfield, house and garden, 3s. 4d.; tithes of wool, 60s.; of lambs, 64s.; oblations, £4 11s. 8d.; small and private tithe, £9 18s. 0½d.; total, £20 17s. 0½d.[430]
The Church of Doncaster, at the end of the thirteenth century,[431] was a rectory, held in two medieties; but in the course of the following centuries both medieties had been appropriated to the Abbey of St. Mary at York, which appointed a vicar. The vicar had a house and garden, valued at 6s. 8d., and an annual pension from St. Mary’s, in pecunia numerata, of £33 6s. 8d.[432]
The income of the three churches in Nottingham—[433]