PI/2/1

PI/2/1

Series

Parliamentary Surveys, 1649

1649

5 box
1 roll
1 file

During the Interregnum in England, in the 1640s, acts of Parliament were passed abolishing bishops and deans and chapters and confiscating their property. Jurisdiction of the Cathedral passed to the mayor and city corporation hence the cathedral became a parish church and its ministers, as with the ministers of other city churches, were assigned properties from the former canonries. In 1649 parliamentary commissioners conducted a survey of property in the Close formerly belonging to the dean and chapter. The survey reports listed in this catalogue describe the houses, gardens, and open spaces of the Close as well as tenements and buildings in the city of Salisbury and surrounding villages. A full electronic catalogue has not yet been created for the returns but the following detailed hardcopy item descriptions/lists are available: (1) List by village/area: Alberbury, Alton Pancras als Australis, Alton St Panchra, Alton Borealis als Alton Panchras Borial, Beaminster Prima & Secunda, Bedminster & Redcliffe, Bedwyn, Bishopstone, Bramshaw, Britford, Broadwinsor, Burbage, Calne, Canning, Chardstock, Chitterne St Mary, Cricklade St Sampson, Durnford, Durrington, Grantham (Lincs), Grimstone & Yetminster, Gussage Regis als. Allhallows Heytesbury & Knook, Hill Deverill, Hilton, Homington, Hurst in Potterne, Hurst and Ruscombe, Ilfracombe, Kenton (Devon), King's Lyme. Laverstock, Lockerley and Dean, Mere, Minty, Netherbury in Ecclesia, North Moreton, Odiham (Hants), Orcheston St George, Pitton and Farley, Powerstock, Quidhampton, Salisbury, Shaftesbury, Shipton (Oxfordshire), Slape, Stotingway, Stourpaine, Stratford Sub Castle, Stratton, Sonning, Sutton Benger, Swallowcliffe, Tytherington and Horningsham, Uffculme, Vorder als Heyworth, Warminster, Westbury, West Hanney, Whitchurch Canonicorum, Wilsford and Woodford, Winckfield, Winterbourne Earls, Winterbourne Homanton als Madenton, and Yetminster Inferior als Yetminster Netherbury. Also 'certain tithes' in Winterbourne Stoke, Maddington, Chute, Hippingescomb, Chippenham als Pewsham, and Clarendon. Together with a copy of an indenture dated 1672 re conveyance of fee farm rents in Dorset, Devon, Somerset and other counties including a rent from the prebend of Charminster. (2) A more detailed list for the Salisbury survey returns arranged in ordinal number order, (3) Transcripts of the returns for houses and pastorage located in the Cathedral Close, recorded on index cards and kept with the relevant survey. The survey is stored in five archive boxes with two additional 'oversize' documents stored in a separate box.

English

Material: paper