[ A Manuscript Valuation of Ecclesiastical Preferments and Royal Patronages in England and Wales]

Manuscript, 221pp., 4to, recased, qtr lea., marbled boards, worn. The Index in the front lists the preferments in the bestowal of twenty-six Bishops from Canterbury to Durham (pp. 1-123), the Dean of Lincolnshire, the Duke of Devonshire, Earl of Burlington, the Duke of Rutland (pp.124-129), Royal Patronages in forty-eight Counties, pp.131-221 (incl. "Dignities in the Royal Patronage", pp.135-141). The body of the work gives details of the above including columns of figures headed "First Fruits". Two printed works have a relationship with this manuscript. "Valor Beneficiarum: or, A Valuation of all Ecclesiastical Preferements in England and Wales" (1695) which does not list benefices within counties alphabetically and omits Royal Patronages (some?). AND: "A Book of the Valuation of all the Ecclesiastical Preferments in England and Wales Entituled Nomini & Valores" (1680) - not seen, but no mention in title of Royal Patronages.