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The advowson belonged to North Cadbury manor and although in 1427 the collegewas to elect a rector 5 in 1456 it was said that no ‘canonical’ presentation had beenmade. 6 The advowson remained with the manor 7 until the 1620s when it was claimedby Emmanuel College, Cambridge under a grant of 1586. In 1622 both EmmanuelCollege and Matthew Ewens presented and in 1623 the college’s presentee held theliving pending a hearing, which the college won. Emmanuel held the advowson until1975 when it passed to the patronage board of the team ministry. 8Income and PropertyIn 1291 the church was valued at £13 6s. 8d. 9 The college of chaplains was to beendowed with 2 a. for their house, two houses, 32 a., rent, and pasture and in 1418 thepope allowed revenues to be apportioned between the clergy. The college was notfounded until after 1423 when it was allowed to acquire lands to the value of £66 13s.4d. 10 In 1427 the bishop approved the scheme and in 1428 John Camel of Woolstongave his manor of Lattiford, returned to him in 1438, and 17 a. in Queen Camel to thecollege. 11 The church was assessed at 20d. in 1445, presumably because most assetshad been transferred to the college, but the retiring rector in 1452 received £10 ayear. 12 In 1535 the church was worth £29 9s. 6d. gross, c. £300 by 1661 and £809 by1835. 135T. S. Holmes (ed.), Register of Bishop Stafford, 1425—1443 (Som. Rec. Soc. 31, 1915), p. 73.6H. C. Maxwell-Lyte (ed.), Register of Bishop Bekynton, 1443—65 (Som. Rec. Soc. 49, 1934), pp.191, 266—7.7H. C. Maxwell-Lyte (ed.), Registers of Bishop Stillington 1466—91, and Bishop Fox, 1492—4(Som. Rec. Soc. 52, 1937), pp. 163—4; F. W. Weaver (ed.), Som. Incumbents (1889), 40; above,landownership; SHC, D/D/Bp 5.8SHC, D/D/Bp 5, 276; TNA, C 3/342/8; Weaver, Som. Incumbents, 40; Report of the RoyalCommission on Ecclesiastical Revenues (Parl. Papers 1835 (67) xxii), pp. 130—1; Dioc. Dir.9Tax. Eccl. 197.10111213Cal. Pat. 1416—22, 69; 1422—9, 189—90; Cal. Papal Regs. VII, 52.Holmes, Register of Bishop Stafford, pp. 72—3; SDNQ. II, 127.Maxwell-Lyte, Register of Bishop Bekynton, pp. 31, 191.Valor Eccl. I, 153; SRO, D/D/Vc 24; Rep. Com. Eccl. Revenues (1835), pp. 130—1.2
In the 1540s the rector claimed that some glebe was withheld. It was claimedby the heirs of the four granddaughters of Thomas Clare who gave lands inKilmersdon and North Cadbury to pay the salary of a priest presumably as part of thecollege foundation. 14 The lands were confiscated as chantry land, were claimed by theearl of Huntingdon as lord of the manor, 15 but were restored to the church before 1571when the glebe comprised 148 a. and tenements in North Cadbury (c. 12 a.),Kilmersdon (c. 35 a.), and Coleford. 16 A close was given to the rector in the later 16thcentury in lieu of tithes of stock meadows when those were enclosed and in 1837 theglebe was more accurately measured at 144 a. 17 Despite exchanges in 1880 18 the landwas scattered and without farm buildings making it difficult to let. Some was used toprovide allotments for each village. The Revd. William Castlehow (d. 1896) gave twohouses to the rectory but his successor sold them with part of the glebe in 1921 toraise £6,500 for a pension. Some land remained unsold in 1959. 19Tithes were worth £22 5s. in 1535, 20 by the 1780s the tithes were paid by an‘easy’ modus 21 and in 1837 were commuted for a rent charge of £489 12s. 2 1/2d. 22After 1417 2 a. adjoining the churchyard was enclosed for a dwelling foreleven college clergy, possibly to incorporate a chapter house. 23 In 1626 theparsonage house site included the college house 24 but it was not recorded again. In the1780s the rectory house was ‘pretty’ with plantations, 25 but decayed for lack of repair14TNA, C 1/1087/3—7; C 1/1319/35; E. Green (ed.), Somerset Chantries, 1548 (Som. Rec. Soc. 2,1888), 129.15Green, Som. Chantries, 129—30, 306; Cal. Pat. 1554—5, 1715.16SHC, D/D/Rg 125.17Court books in private hands; SHC D/P/cad 3/1/1; ibid. tithe award.18SHC, DD/FF 19/1.19Ibid. D/P/cad. n 3/1/2—4.20Valor Eccl. I, 153.21SHC, A/AQP 9.22Ibid. D/P/cad. n 3/1/1.23Cal. Pat. 1416—22, 69; Holmes, Register of Bishop Stafford, 49.24SHC, D/D/Ca 236, 255; ibid. D/D/Rg 125.25Ibid. A/AQP 9.3
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