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The Valor in Hibernia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 January 2024

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As in England, Irish benefices were revalued at and after the time of the reformation, though the process took much longer and is now little known. Our knowledge of its details comes from a pamphlet printed at Dublin in 1741, under the auspices of Edward Exshaw, a bookseller of Cork Hill, entitled; ‘Valor beneficiorum eccelsiasticorum in Hibernia, or thefirstfruits of all the ecclesiastical benefices in the kingdom of Ireland, as taxed in the king's books, with an account shewing how this royal fund vested in trustees, hath hitherto been disposed of’ It is reprinted here, with the format, spelling and punctuation modernized where necessary, and collated with an unpublished manuscript at Trinity College, Dublin (TCD, MS 567) which dates from sometime after 1591 and contains the sixteenthcentury valuations, given here in square brackets.

In the tables themselves, the original Latin has been Anglicized and the dioceses have been rearranged in alphabetical order by province (Armagh, Cashel, Dublin and Tuam), with the metropolitical see coming first in each case.

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As a book intituled Valor beneficiorum eccelsiasticorum in Anglia et Wallia was printed in 1680 for the use of the clergy in England and Wales, it may not be useless to publish likewise the taxations of all the ecclesiastical benefices in this kingdom. If, in the following tract, the names of some rectories and vicarages be found to differ from the modern way of spelling them, it is a fault which could not be avoided in printing a true copy of the ancient names, as well as the valuations affixed to them; and the reader may be assured that the following account is authentic, being faithfully transcribed and compared with the original record of the exchequer in the chief remembrancer's office.

The sterling money is distinguished all along from the Irish, and in reducing Irish money to sterling, you do no more than subtract one fourth part from the Irish to make it sterling, thus 20s. Irish make but 15s. sterling.

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Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
First published in: 2024

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  • The Valor in Hibernia
  • Edited by Gerald Bray
  • Book: Records of Convocation
  • Online publication: 11 January 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781805431985.012
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  • The Valor in Hibernia
  • Edited by Gerald Bray
  • Book: Records of Convocation
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  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781805431985.012
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  • The Valor in Hibernia
  • Edited by Gerald Bray
  • Book: Records of Convocation
  • Online publication: 11 January 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781805431985.012
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