Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: Volume 4, Salisbury. Originally published by Institute of Historical Research, London, 1991.
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'Prebendaries: Yatesbury', in Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: Volume 4, Salisbury, (London, 1991) pp. 107-108. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/fasti-ecclesiae/1066-1300/vol4/pp107-108 [accessed 26 April 2024]
LIST 62 PREBENDARIES OF YATESBURY
PREBEND
Preb. consisted of land in lay fee in Yatesbury (Wilts.), manor held by Aluredus de Ispania in 1086 (DB I 73a; Taxatio p. 182a). No early documentation for preb., but presum. in existence by c. 1150 (Psalter list). First certain reference to preb. c. 1210, when taken into king's hands and valued during Interdict, c. 1210 (Interdict Docs. pp. 7-8, 16, 20).
Subdcn.-preb.; decani side; term of residence c. 1270: July-Sept.
Valuations
1220s 5m.; 1226 5m.; c. 1284 4m.; 1291 £6 13s. 4d.
PREBENDARIES
[? M. Peter of Blois
Can., unident. preb.; for the possibility that he held this preb., see list 66.]
Hugh of Wells
Archdcn. of Bath by July 1215; can. of Lincoln (1 Fasti III 88). First occ. as can. 29 Sept. 1225 (RSO II 37). Occ. this preb. Oct. 1226 × Feb. 1227 (app. 1) and as can. 9 Sept. 1228 (RSO II 108). Last occ. as can., absent, 19 Oct. 1233 (Sar. Chs. p. 230). D. late 1234 or early 1235, by 14 Feb. (Ann. Tewkes. p. 94; CPR 1232-47 p. 93).
Walter of Merton
First occ. as can. 4 Oct. 1262 (Sar. Stats. p. 98, also pd. RSO I 354 with defective date). Res. this preb. by 10 Jan., royal coll. to preb. Charminster, s.v., 11 Jan. 1263 (CPR 1258-66 p. 239; list 26).
M. John Maunsel the younger (fn. 1)
Royal clk., kinsman of John Maunsel (senior) who was keeper of king's great seal. Royal coll. to this preb., s.v., 10 Jan. 1263, on res. of Walter of Merton (CPR 1258-66 p. 239). Does not otherwise occ. as can. or preb. Also preb. of Wells and York (York Minster Fasti II 26-7). D. by Aug.-Sept. 1265 (CCR 1264-8 pp. 129, 189; cf. CPR 1258-66 p. 506).
John de Middleton
Succentor by 28 Dec. 1268; last occ. 8 March 1290/1; d. by 1291 (list 12). Occ. this preb. May-June 1284 (app. 2).
Next identified preb. is M. Robert Luterel, who vacated this preb. by 10 May 1315 (2 Fasti III 97; cf. CPR 1301-7 pp. 6, 45, 470, which suggests a Lincs. connection).