Author: [Cayley, John (Editor)].
Title: VALOR ECCLESIASTICUS Temp. Henr. VIII. Auctoritate Regia. Institutus.
Description: Printed by Command of His Majesty King George III. In Pursuance of an Address of the House of Commons of Great Britain [Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan] and [Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode], 1810-34. 6 vols. Folio. 1 plate engraved by J. Basire, 16 folding hand coloured maps. Some age toning and spotting, some sm. repairs and marginal tears, ex.-Nottingham Reference library with sm. ink stamps to title pages and occasionally text and to recto of the maps of York, Chester, Carlisle and Durham, England and Wales (4 in total), labels removed from front f.e.ps., rebound in gilt lettered green buckram. ¶ The returns into the Exchequer by the Commissioners appointed under the Act 26 Henry VIII cap. 3. Edited, at the behest of the Record Commission, by John Caley and Joseph Hunter. Volume 6 printed by George Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode. It bears subtitle Appendix et indices and includes the General introduction and general map referred to by note inserted in volume 1. Includes indexes. Main body of text printed in double columns. Text in Latin; introduction and notes in English. The Valor Ecclesiasticus (Latin: church valuation) was a survey of the finances of the church in England, Wales and English controlled parts of Ireland made in 1535 on the orders of Henry VIII. It was colloquially called the Kings books, a somewhat ambiguous term. The Valor gave the government for the first time a solid understanding of the scale of the wealth of the church as a whole and particularly of the monasteries. Figures from the Valor were a vital part of the process of the Suppression of Religious Houses Act 1535, Henry's first move in the dissolution of the monasteries, which dissolved all monasteries with a declared income of less than £200 per year. The Valor is a document of the first importance for historians of the later mediæval and Tudor church, the English Reformation, and the Dissolution. It is also valuable to economic historians of the period.

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