Antiquities of Shropshire Volume 9 - Robert William Eyton

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 Excerpt: ...The said Pension was . 10s. payable to the Abbot of Shrewsbury, and was probably a composition in lieu of certain tithes, abandoned by the Abbot, as Lord of Betton-in-Hales and Richwardine. Besides this, the Vicarage of Drayton in Hales had a separate valuation of 6. 13s. 4d.2 At the Assizes of 1292 the Abbot of St. Ebrulph was sued for the Advowson of Magna Drayton as having descended to Edward I. from Henry II., who was now alleged to have presented one John fitz Thomas, his Clerk, thereto. The Abbot appealed to a Jury, which decided his right to be better than that of the King.3 In 1341, the Assessors of the Ninth quoted the Taxation of the Church of Drayton in le Halys as one of 12. This they further reduced to 10 for the current assessment, saying that the glebeland, rents, oblations, mortuaries, and other income of the Church, went to make up the assessment of 12, and had nothing to do with the present tax. To the Ninth, thus computed at 10, the Temporalities of Shrewsbury Abbey (at Little Drayton and Betton, I presume) furnished a quota.4 The Advowson of Market Drayton eventually escheated to the Crown as an Asset of an Alien Monastery. King Henry V. granted to the Carthusians of Sheen (in Surrey), who had it at the Dissolution. The Valor of 1534-5 gives the Vicarage, then held by Radulph Tytteley, as worth 3.6s. 8rf. per annum. The charges on this income were 4s. for Synodals, 8s. for Procurations, 2s. 4d. for an annual pension payable to Tyrley Chapel, and Is. 9d. for another pension payable to the Diocesan Bishop.6 EARLY INCUMBENTS. Robert, Priest of Dreiton, and his son Ivo, occur in 1136-7. John Fitz Thomas has occurred above as the alleged Presentee of King Henry II. (between 1154 and 1189). Philip, Vi..."