Dugdale's "History of St. Paul's Cathedral,” p. 5.

2 This taxation was made at the time that Pope Nicholas IV. granted a tenth of all ecclesiastical revenues to the King to defray the expenses of the Holy War. A record of this taxation is preserved in the Exchequer; another copy is in the Bodleian Library, and is often referred to by the title of the Bodleian Valor. The valuation of ecclesiastical revenues was the same in most instances in 1406, when the clergy of the province of Canterbury granted a tenth to the King. (Vide Regist. Winton. at the beginning of Beaufort's Register.) The valuation in the King's books was made in 1534.

In the year 1283 there was a royal mandate that this Manor should not be leased to any but members of the Church of St. Paul's. About the year 1256 it was leased to Robert de Barton, precentor, for life, subject to the annual payment of three rents in bread and beer, the customary dues to the bakehouse and beerhouse, and forty shillings per annum to the Chapter. Several other leases to members of the Church are preserved among the records.

In the taxation of Pope Nicholas, about 1291, the Manor is valued as the property of the Canons at £12.9 In the reign of Edward II. the Canons obtained from the King a charter of free warren, and an exemption of the burthensome charge of purveyance.

From the Patent Rolls of the tenth year of Henry IV. (1409), it appears that the Archbishop of Canterbury was entitled to a sparrow-hawk (esperverium), or 2s. in money annually, and also £2 every twentieth year, for ever, from the lords of the Manor of Barnes, belonging to the Canons of St. Paul's, that they might be excused from serving from the office of reeve in his Manor of Wimbledon.

This, like most estates belonging to ecclesiastical bodies, has been generally let on lease for long terms.

In the fifteenth century the Manor was again leased to