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Sketch Map of STAFFORDSHIRE to Illustrate the Dissolution of the Monasteries

FOOTNOTES:[1]Froude’sHistory of England.[2]Seventeen Lectures(1887), p. 289.[3]See below, Chap. iv.[4]These figures, omitting shillings and pence, are fromValor Ecclesiasticus.[5]Valor Ecclesiasticus, iii, p. 146, 148.[6]The only other exception is said to be Beaulieu.[7]Pleas of the Forest, 1286. (Salt Collections, V, Pt. I, p. 162; VIII, p. 177.)[8]Some very interesting examples of corrodies granted by Staffordshire monasteries are given inMonasticism in Staffordshire, p. 157–160.[9]Dieulacres Chartulary, No. 99.[10]Plea Rolls, Henry III(inSalt Collections, VI, Pt. I, p. 293).[11]Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, v, 1529.[12]Cal. Pat. Rolls, Henry VI, Vol. II, 1429–36.[13]Plea Rolls, 6 Edw. IV(Salt Collectionsn.s. IV).[14]Cal. Pat. Rolls, Edw. I, 1281–92, p. 25.[15]Cf. the election of Edie to Burton Abbey (Chap. ivinfra) and of Meverell to Tutbury Priory (Chap. viinfra); and Cranmer’s request for the appointment of Gorton to Worcester (Chap. vinfra).[16]Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, v, 1529.[17]Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, i, 1235, 1360.[18]Ibid., iv, Part I, 650.[19]Plea Rolls, Henry III(Salt Collections, IV).[20]Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, iv, Part I, 1137.[21]Ibid., iv, Part II, 3536, 3538.[22]Ibid., iv, Part I, 649, 697, 1913.[23]Staffordshire Antiquaries usually add Blithbury, being misled by the similarity of name to Blythburgh, an Austin Priory in Suffolk which was one of those suppressed by Wolsey.[24]Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, iv, Part I, 1964.[25]Ibid., 2217, 2024.[26]Ibid., iv. Part II, 3537–8.[27]Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, iv, Part II, 3190, 4275.[28]Ibid., iv, Part III, 6516, 6222.[29]Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, iv, Part III, 6788.[30]Bishop Norbury’s Register, p. 28.[31]Bishop Stretton’s (2nd) Register,sub ann.[32]Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, iv, Part I, 2193; Part II, 2969. Clayborough was one of the King’s Counsel employed in the “Divorce” proceedings at Dunstable in May, 1533.[33]Ibid., Part II, 3390.[34]Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, vi, 389.[35]Wright’sLetters, p. 127. (“Glaston” is a misprint for “Ellaston.”)[36]Letters and Papers, v, 277.[37]Letters and Papers, v, 1234.[38]Cf.supra, p. 24; he became Sub-Treasurer and Receiver-General in Ireland.[39]Letters and Papers, v, 1456.[40]Ibid., vi, 389.[41]Letters and Papers, vi, 645.[42]Valor Ecclesiasticus, iii, 131.[43]e.g., in 1608 (State Papers, Domestic, James I, 1603–10, p. 407) and 1680 (Salt CollectionsV, 188).[44]Cf.Dict. Nat. Biog., xxxii, 373.[45]Letters and Papers, v, 879; cf. 150 (where the date should be 1532).[46]Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, vi, 119; cf. iv, Part II, 2700.[47]Ibid., vi, 417.[48]Wright’sLetters, p. 114.[49]Letters and Papers, vi, 700.[50]Sir Piers Dutton was Sheriff of Chester (Letters and Papers, x, 618).[51]Ibid., vi, 714. (Vols. V and VI give a considerable number of instances of interference with elections at this time.)[52]Letters and Papers, vi, 1060; vii, 587 (19).[53]These particulars are from Stubbs (Registrum Sacrum Anglicanum, 146, andMonasticon, v, 377 note).[54]P.R.O.,State Papers, Henry VIII, Fol. Vol. R. and S., 165.[Attached to this document is a paper containing a longer list of monasteries covering three sides, of which those above-named fill the first side. Some Welsh houses are included.][55]Cf.Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, vi, 590.[56]26 Henry VIII, c. 3.[57]The Possessions of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem were taken by the Act 32 Henry VIII, c. xxiv.[58]Letters and Papers, viii, 149 (75).[59]Ibid., xiv, Part I, p. 289.[60]Cf. also Arts. 10–13 of the Act.[61]Valor Ecclesiasticus, iii, p. 99.[62]Valor Ecclesiasticus, temp. Hen. VIII, auctoritate regia institutus(6 vols., 1810–34). The Staffordshire returns come in Vol. III.[63]Letters and Papers, ix, 354.[64]Cf.infra, Ch. v.[65]Vol. III, pp. 99–152.[69]His will is printed in theJournal of the Derbyshire Archæological and Natural History Society, Vol. VII (1885), pp. 226–233.[70]Annales de Burtonare printed inAnnales Monastici, Vol. I (1864), edited by H. R. Luard, M.A.[71]Valor Ecclesiasticus, iii, 144.[72]Valor Ecclesiasticus, iii, 146.[73]Cal. Pat. Rolls, Edw. III, 1313–18, pp. 428, 447, 564; 1318–23, pp. 116, 694.[74]Cal. Pat. Rolls, Edw. III, 1307–13, pp. 331, 335, 343.[77]Cunningham,Growth of English Industry and Commerce, i, 625–632.[78]A Description of Leicestershire, by William Burton (1622), p. 119.[79]Cf.supra, p. 47.[80]The tradition is recorded by J. Bacon in the Preface to his edition (1786) of Ecton’sThesaurus rerum Ecclesiasticarum, the first edition of which was printed in 1711. Ecton and Bacon were both officials of the Office of First-Fruits and Tenths.[81]In 1535, Cranmer wrote to Cromwell: “I understand the Priory of Worcester is to be shortly void. If so, be good to ... Dn. Richard Gorton, B.D., of the house of Burton-on-Trent.”—Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, ix, 971.)[82]Valor Ecclesiasticus, 126.[83]Ibid., 163.[84]Ibid., 149.[85]Valor Ecclesiasticus, iii, 226.[86]Cal. Pat. Rolls, Henry IV, 1405–8.[87]“Early Chancery Proceedings,” Bundle 6, No. 50 (Salt Collections, N.S., vii, 244).[88]Vol. III, 103.[89]In the twelfth century Margery, daughter of Sir Ralf de Coven, endowed the Nunnery with this annual rent in Horsebrook. (Original Deed at Chillington, printed inSalt Collections, iii, p. 211.)[90]Cf. Appendix i.[91]Valor Ecclesiasticus, iii, 125.[92]Glaston is obviously a misprint for “Ellaston,” a mistake easily made. Cf.supra, p. 34.[93]Cf.supra, p. 50.[94]Cal. Pat. Rolls, Rich. II, 1377–81, pp. 362, 516.[95]Salt Collections, iii, 163, 182; N.S., ix, 298.[96]Valor Ecclesiasticus, iii, 123.[97]Valor Ecclesiasticus, iii, 104 (cf.Letters and Papers, viii, 191).[98]Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, xvi, 678.[99]Valor Ecclesiasticus, iii, 107.[100]Cf.infraCh. vii.[101]Valor Ecclesiasticus, iii, 124.[102]Valor Ecclesiasticus, iii, 114.[103]Exchequer Augmentation Office: Miscellaneous Books, Vol. 400, p. 108–9.[104]Salt Collections, viii, 195, 197.[105]Valor Ecclesiasticus, iii, 110.[107]Cf.infraAppendix iv.[108]Cf.infra, p. 145.[109]Salt Collections, N.S., iv (13 Edw. IV).[110]Valor Ecclesiasticus, iii, 113.[111]Salt Collections, xi, 322.[112]Cal. Pat. Rolls, Edw. I, 1292–1301, p. 253 (cf. pp. 248, 252);Pat. Rolls, 15 Edw. II (Salt Collections, xi, 299).[113]Valor Ecclesiasticus, iii, 108.[114]De Banco Roll, Hilary 10–11, Edw. III (Salt Collections, xi, 72).[115]Supra, p. 21.[116]Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, viii, 56.[117]Ibid., viii, 682.[118]Wright’sLetters, p. 114.[119]Valor Ecclesiasticus, iii, 142.[120]Valor Ecclesiasticus, iii, 57.[121]Wright’sLetters, 156.[122]Wright’sLetters, 157.[123]Wright’sLetters, 93.[124]Ibid., 95.[125]Letters and Papers, ix, 517.[126]Ibid., x, 364.[127]Ibid., x, 1088.[128]Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, Vol. X, 1238. [Gairdner,English Church, does not include Tutbury in his list on p. 420.][129]Cf.Dict. Nat. Biog., xlviij, 123.[130]Ibid., xlvj, 135.[131]Ibid., ix, 363.[132]Letters and Papers, x, 613.[133]Letters and Papers, x, 741.[134]Ibid., 749.[135]Letters and Papers, x, 886.[136]Ibid., 754.[137]Ibid., 1178.[138]Letters and Papers, x, 324.[139]Letters and Papers, xii, Pt. II, 638.[140]Ibid., xii, Pt. I, 1104; Pt. II, 1008(1), 456, 411 (2) and (12); xiii. Pt. II, 456, 364, 343, 370.[141]Ibid., xii, Pt. I, 819.[142]Letters and Papers, xii, Pt. II, 531.[143]Letters and Papers, xiii, Pt. I, 456.[144]Cf.infra, p. 186.[145]Cf.infra, pp. 175, 227, 233, 240, 272–6.[146]Letters and Papers, xii, Pt. II, 611.[147]Letters and Papers, xiii, Pt. I, 1520.[148]Public Record Office,State Papers, Dom., Henry VIII, Vol. 120, No. 143.[149]Letters and Papers, xiii, Pt. II, 44, 56, 61.[150]Ibid., 170.[151]Letters and Papers, xiii, Pt. II, 49.[152]Ibid., 50.[153]Ibid., 44.[154]Letters and Papers, xiii, Pt. II, 79.[155]Ibid., 56 (Aug. 9, 1538).[156]Letters and Papers, xiii, Pt. II, 56.[157]Ibid.[158]Letters and Papers, xiii, Pt. II, 61.[159]Wright’sLetters, 203, 204.[160]Burnet, iv, 490.[161]Letters and Papers, xiii, Pt. II, 281.[162]Wright’sLetters, 143.[163]Letters and Papers, xiii, Pt. I, 317.[164]Ibid., Pt. II, 164.[165]Ibid., 1051.[166]Letters and Papers, xiii, Pt. II, 652.[167]Ibid., 736.[168]Ibid., 1143.[169]Letters and Papers, xiii, Pt. II, 168; Wright’sLetters, 267, 270.[170]Wright’sLetters, 282.[171]Wright’sLetters, 267.[172]Wright’sletters, 278.[173]Letters and Papers, xiii, Pt. II, 343.[174]Public Record Office, Exchequer Augmentation Office, No. 247.[175]Ibid., No. 206 (Letters and Papers, xiii, Pt. II, 364).[176]Public Record Office, Exchequer Augmentation Office, No. 66 (Ibid., 370).[177]Public Record Office, Ministers’ Accounts, Divers Counties, No. 230, Bundle 61 (Accounts of John Scudamore, membrane 6): “Nuper Monasterii de Roucester—de precio trium campanorum nuper Monasterii de Roucester remanentium in Campanilia Ecclesiae parochialis ibidem non de eo quod parochiani de Roucester predicta Clamant easdem campanas sibi et parochianis ibidem pertinere et remanere super clamentium suum quousque determinentur coram Cancellario et Consilio Curiae Augmentationis etc. Si dictum clamentium verum sit necne quia easdem campanas occupabuntur et usi fuerunt tam per nuper Religiosos quam eciam per parochianos de Rocester predicta pulsandas ad divina servicia et aliter. Summa nulla.”[178]Exchequer Augmentation Office, Miscellaneous Books, Vol. 172.[179]Appendix, iii, iv, v.[180]Letters and Papers, xiii, Pt. II, 586.[181]Ibid., 628.[182]Letters and Papers, xiii, Pt. II, 627.[183]Ibid., 634 (Exchequer Augmentation Office, 220).[184]See the Inventory in Appendix v.[185]Letters and Papers, xiii, Pt. II, 656.[186]Sleigh’sLeek, p. 64. “Cole’s MS., 26, 246, contains the Deposition of John Whitney, late Chamberleyne to the last Abbot of Dieulacresse, taken 8 Jany., 7oElizh. Hereby it appeared that 4 or 5 days after the suppression of that Abbey, several Blanks, having the Covent-sealle, were seene by the Deponent, the Abbot and others being privy. Upon these blanks Wm. Damport, the Abbot’s Scribe, wroteLeases, with Ante-Dates: and among the rest one was the Lease and Reversion of the Mannour of Poultone.”[187]Wright’sLetters282.[188]Ibid.286.[189]Ibid.206.[190]Letters and Papers, xiii, Pt. II, 1233.[191]Ibid., xvi, 745.[192]Ibid., ix, 971; cf.supra, p. 83n.[193]Ibid., xiii, Pt. II, 1051.[194]Ibid., 1052.[195]Cf. Appendix xii, xiii, where many interesting details are given of the journey and the whole business.[196]Cf. Appendix v.[197]Cf. Appendix iii.[198]Cf. Appendix v.[199]Cf. Appendix iv.[200]Cf. Appendix vi, vii, viii.[201]History of England, i, 41 n.[202]Cf. Appendix v, vi.[203]Cf.supra, pp. 154, 155.[204]Supra, p. 39.[205]Cf. Appendix iii.[206]Cf. Appendix iv.[207]Cf. Appendix v.[208]Monasticon, v, 383.[209]Cf.supra, p. 164.[210]Bazin’s novel, translated into English under the title ofThe Nun, describes the suppression of a French nunnery in recent years, and the after-history of the sisters. It is very instructive.[211]Wright’sLetters, 243.[212]Sleigh’sLeek, 140.[213]Ibid., 64. He left his chalice of silver-gilt to his “servant and nephew Nicholas Whitney,” stipulating that if the Abbey were ever restored the chalice should be returned to it.[214]His rent-roll of lands which he continued to manage, dated Oct. 6th, 34 Hen. viij, is in the William Salt Library at Stafford (Box 145).[215]Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, xvi, 617.[216]Ibid., App. i.[217]Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, xvi, 866.[218]Ibid., 324.[219]Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, xvi, 745, 425, 258.[220]Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, xiii, Pt. ii, 1220.[221]Cf.supra, p. 34.[222]Valor Ecclesiasticus, iii, 128 (printed “Glaston”).[223]Printed inAnnales Monastici, Vol. I (1864). Another copy is in the Library of the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield.[224]Addit. MS., 23, 944. See App. xiv.[225]British Museum, Royal MS., 15, B, iv.[226]Cottonian MS., Vespasian E., xxiv, cxv.[227]Wright’sLetters, p. 71. Strype, Vol. I, pt. i, p. 324.[228]Wright’sLetters, 291.[229]Letters and Papers, xii, Pt. I, 767: Dr. Pole to Bp. Lee (Mar. 29th, 1537), “I know none within your diocese of seditious opinions touching the bishop of Rome or favourable to the late insurrections.”[230]A kind of figured linen.[231]i.e., cooling pans.[232]? Cyfus or Cyphus = a drinking-cup.[233]i.e., flagons.[234]i.e., spit.[235]i.e., a small handmill for grinding mustard.[236]i.e., a basket or other vessel for clearing away the remains of a meal.[237]i.e., iron.[238]i.e., ornamented with work illustrating the Nativity of Christ.[239]i.e., lavatory[240]i.e., saucepan.[241]i.e., an iron hook for hanging a pot over the fire.[242]i.e., coolers.[243]i.e., cistern.[244]i.e., seven score and nineteen = 159.[245]A fother = 19½ cwt.[246]i.e., vats.[247]i.e., sanctus bell.[248]beer coppers (wort = new unfermented beer).[249]i.e., time allowed, respite, credit; cf. Chaucer,The Franklin’s Tale, l. 847, “bysecheth ... to graunte him dayes of the remenaunt.”[250]i.e., dormitory.[251]“Walter Charnels” was Bailiff of the town of Burton (cf.supra, p. 90).[252]i.e., cushions.[253]i.e., treasurer.[254]Sir William Paget was Clerk of the Signet and Privy Councillor, afterwards Baron Paget of Beaudesert (cf.Dict. Natl. Biog., xliii, 60).[255]Public Record Office. Particulars for Grants, 10 Jan., 37 Hen. viii. Sir William Paget.Request to exchange (1) [lined through]. Lands appointed unto the King by Sir Will. Paget,viz., farm of the manor or late hospital of Kepeyere (Durham); (2) [lined through] in exchange for farm of the manor of Nantwich; farm of the demesne of Burton-on-Trent with site of the late college, and the demesne lands pertaining.[Kepier is described in the Aug. Off. Misc. Book, 400, as being in the county of York: it is in Easington Ward, co. Durham. The Hospital there was surrendered and granted to Sir William Paget 36 Hen. viij.][256]Cf.supra, pp. 158, 168.[257]William Scudamore was John Scudamore’s son. He acted as Clerk to Robert Burgoyn, one of the Commissioners for Northamptonshire, etc. (cf. Wright’sLetters, p. 281).[258]i.e., never.[259]John Lambert had held this office under the Abbey at the time ofValor Ecclesiasticus(cf.supra, p. 90).[260]The details of the expenses incurred by Goodrick and Scudamore in the journey from London to Burton and back are most interesting, showing as they do the cost of meals, etc., at the various places where they stayed. It may be compared with the “book of accounts” of Lenthall, auditor of the attainted lands, in his journey from London to the North in 1541. (Letters and Papers, xvi, 1490.)[261]One of Cromwell’s men was named Thomas Palmer (cf.Letters and Papers, xiv, Pt. I, 1039, 1060).[262]Brickhill is near Fenny-Stratford.[263]i.e., Daventry.[264][lined through in original.][265][lined through in original.][266]John Williams had been one of Cromwell’s agents so long ago as 1536 at least. In that year he had been deputed with Sir John Clark (Commissioner of the Peace in Oxfordshire) and George Gifford to investigate a complaint which had been lodged against Sir John Browne that his mill “doth annoye the Kinges other Subgiettes ... in the surunding and overflowing of their groundes.” (Letters and Papers, xi, 446; cf. 227, 353, 888.) He had also been one of the Commissioners of the Dissolution, and had visited Bury St. Edmund’s, Ely, Winchester, Hyde, Eynsham, and Notley (Bucks.). (Cf. Wright’sLetters, pp. 145, 147, 220, 233, 235.)[267]This was a common name for the Bible down to the fourteenth century.[268]Four homilies on the text, “missus est angelus” (St. Luke i, 26), composed by St. Bernard about the year 1120 (cf. Morison, p. 49).[269]A treatise on the Ten Commandments.[270]Probably ascribed wrongly to St. Augustine instead of to St. Ambrose.[271]Epistola Augustini ad Iulianum comitem.[272]Hugh of St. Victor, near Paris (A.D.1097–1141). His works includeIn Ecclesiasten homiliae,de Institutione Novitiorum, andMystica archae Noe descriptio. See also Note 19infra.[273]See last note.[274]Expositio in beatum Job, seu Moralium libri xxxv, by Pope Gregory the Great.[275]Dialogorum libri iv de vita et miraculis patrum, by the above.[276]Scintillarum seu sententiarum catholicorum Patrum, a collection of extracts from the Fathers, by Defensor, a monk of Ligugé, near Poitiers, who lived about 800A.D.[277]Liber Regulae Pastoralis, by Pope Gregory.[278]Libri duo in Evangelia, viz., 40 Homilies on the Gospels for the day, by the above.[279]Beati immaculati,i.e., Ps. cxix.[280]See Note 6supra.[281]The work of Albertus Magnus (1193–1280) with this title can have been hardly yet written when the list was drawn up. The “book” is therefore more probablyParadisus Heraclidis, the oldest Latin version of theLausiac Historyof Palladius.[282]There was a Robert, Abbot of Burton from 1150 to 1159, when he was deposed. In 1175 he was re-elected, and died in 1177.[283]Synonyma de lamentatione animae peccatricis, by St. Isidore of Seville (died 636). The book in question is a dialogue between Homo, bewailing his sinfulness, and Ratio, teaching him aright.[284]St. Ephraem Syrus (diedc.373), a voluminous writer.[285]Liber Prognosticorum futuri saeculi, by Julian of Toledo, died 690.[286]An English writer, born at Hexham, 1109, Abbot of Rievaulx, died 1166. He wrote many historical and theological works, the latter in the style of St. Bernard.[287]De Eruditione Didascalica, by Hugh of St. Victor, in six books. It is a kind of encyclopædia of sciences, and obtained for its compiler the title of Didascalus or Teacher.[288]St. Prosper, of Aquitaine, bornc.403.[289]A monk of Burton named Martin is mentioned in the time of Abbot Bernard (1160–75) in the Burton Chartulary.[290]Briennius, monk and subprior, of Burton, in the time of Abbot Robert (1150–77), is mentioned in the Burton Chartulary.[291]St. Ivo of Chartres, died 1115.[292]i.e.,Leviticuswith notes.[293]Radbertus was Abbot of Corbie, near Amiens, from 844 to 851. The book which is here named was one of the early arguments in favour of “transubstantiation.”[294]i.e., Account Book.[295]Geoffrey was Abbot of Burton from 1114 to 1150. His life of St. Modwen is mentionedsupra, p. 220.[296]By St. Jerome.[297]Joannes Eleemosynarius, or Misericors, Patriarch of Alexandria, 609–616; the original patron saint of the Hospitallers.[298]“The quires or gatherings of which the book was formed generally consisted, in the earliest examples, of four sheets folded to make eight leaves” (Encyclopædia Britannica, xviij, 144), hence “quaternio” or quarto.[299]St. Martha the Egyptian.[300]Historia Apostolica ex Luca expressa, a poem in Latin hexameters, which is described as bad in style and treatment, filled with far-fetched metaphors and wearisome digressions. Arator lived in the middle of the sixth century and his poem is dedicated in flattering terms to Pope Vigilius.[301]See Note 17supra.[302]See Note 23supra.[303]i.e., Chapter Books.[304]St. Caesarius of Chalons, died 542. He wrote a large number of “sermons,” which show a wide knowledge of the Bible and are eminently practical.[305]Villicus Iniquitatis—the unjust Steward (cf. St. Luke xvj. 8, Vulgate).[306]See Note 9supra.[307]Perhaps (1)Apollonius of Tyre, a Greek love-story of the 3rd or 4th century, perhaps translated into Latin verse in the fifth century, and re-translated into Latin prose in the twelfth or thirteenth century. An ancient Anglo-Saxon translation was printed by Thorpe in 1834. Gower’sConfessio Amantis(Bk. viij) is an adaptation of it, and it is also one of the sources of Shakespeare’sPericles. The earliest English version now known was made in 1510 from the French. (SeeEncyclopædia Britannica, Vol. XX, p. 635.) (2) Or,The Life of Apollonius of Tyana, by Philostratus (bornc.175A.D.).[308]Hugh, the eighth Abbot of Reading, who founded, in the year 1190, a hospital for twenty-six poor people and for the entertainment of travellers.

[1]Froude’sHistory of England.

[2]Seventeen Lectures(1887), p. 289.

[3]See below, Chap. iv.

[4]These figures, omitting shillings and pence, are fromValor Ecclesiasticus.

[5]Valor Ecclesiasticus, iii, p. 146, 148.

[6]The only other exception is said to be Beaulieu.

[7]Pleas of the Forest, 1286. (Salt Collections, V, Pt. I, p. 162; VIII, p. 177.)

[8]Some very interesting examples of corrodies granted by Staffordshire monasteries are given inMonasticism in Staffordshire, p. 157–160.

[9]Dieulacres Chartulary, No. 99.

[10]Plea Rolls, Henry III(inSalt Collections, VI, Pt. I, p. 293).

[11]Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, v, 1529.

[12]Cal. Pat. Rolls, Henry VI, Vol. II, 1429–36.

[13]Plea Rolls, 6 Edw. IV(Salt Collectionsn.s. IV).

[14]Cal. Pat. Rolls, Edw. I, 1281–92, p. 25.

[15]Cf. the election of Edie to Burton Abbey (Chap. ivinfra) and of Meverell to Tutbury Priory (Chap. viinfra); and Cranmer’s request for the appointment of Gorton to Worcester (Chap. vinfra).

[16]Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, v, 1529.

[17]Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, i, 1235, 1360.

[18]Ibid., iv, Part I, 650.

[19]Plea Rolls, Henry III(Salt Collections, IV).

[20]Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, iv, Part I, 1137.

[21]Ibid., iv, Part II, 3536, 3538.

[22]Ibid., iv, Part I, 649, 697, 1913.

[23]Staffordshire Antiquaries usually add Blithbury, being misled by the similarity of name to Blythburgh, an Austin Priory in Suffolk which was one of those suppressed by Wolsey.

[24]Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, iv, Part I, 1964.

[25]Ibid., 2217, 2024.

[26]Ibid., iv. Part II, 3537–8.

[27]Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, iv, Part II, 3190, 4275.

[28]Ibid., iv, Part III, 6516, 6222.

[29]Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, iv, Part III, 6788.

[30]Bishop Norbury’s Register, p. 28.

[31]Bishop Stretton’s (2nd) Register,sub ann.

[32]Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, iv, Part I, 2193; Part II, 2969. Clayborough was one of the King’s Counsel employed in the “Divorce” proceedings at Dunstable in May, 1533.

[33]Ibid., Part II, 3390.

[34]Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, vi, 389.

[35]Wright’sLetters, p. 127. (“Glaston” is a misprint for “Ellaston.”)

[36]Letters and Papers, v, 277.

[37]Letters and Papers, v, 1234.

[38]Cf.supra, p. 24; he became Sub-Treasurer and Receiver-General in Ireland.

[39]Letters and Papers, v, 1456.

[40]Ibid., vi, 389.

[41]Letters and Papers, vi, 645.

[42]Valor Ecclesiasticus, iii, 131.

[43]e.g., in 1608 (State Papers, Domestic, James I, 1603–10, p. 407) and 1680 (Salt CollectionsV, 188).

[44]Cf.Dict. Nat. Biog., xxxii, 373.

[45]Letters and Papers, v, 879; cf. 150 (where the date should be 1532).

[46]Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, vi, 119; cf. iv, Part II, 2700.

[47]Ibid., vi, 417.

[48]Wright’sLetters, p. 114.

[49]Letters and Papers, vi, 700.

[50]Sir Piers Dutton was Sheriff of Chester (Letters and Papers, x, 618).

[51]Ibid., vi, 714. (Vols. V and VI give a considerable number of instances of interference with elections at this time.)

[52]Letters and Papers, vi, 1060; vii, 587 (19).

[53]These particulars are from Stubbs (Registrum Sacrum Anglicanum, 146, andMonasticon, v, 377 note).

[54]P.R.O.,State Papers, Henry VIII, Fol. Vol. R. and S., 165.[Attached to this document is a paper containing a longer list of monasteries covering three sides, of which those above-named fill the first side. Some Welsh houses are included.]

[54]P.R.O.,State Papers, Henry VIII, Fol. Vol. R. and S., 165.

[Attached to this document is a paper containing a longer list of monasteries covering three sides, of which those above-named fill the first side. Some Welsh houses are included.]

[55]Cf.Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, vi, 590.

[56]26 Henry VIII, c. 3.

[57]The Possessions of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem were taken by the Act 32 Henry VIII, c. xxiv.

[58]Letters and Papers, viii, 149 (75).

[59]Ibid., xiv, Part I, p. 289.

[60]Cf. also Arts. 10–13 of the Act.

[61]Valor Ecclesiasticus, iii, p. 99.

[62]Valor Ecclesiasticus, temp. Hen. VIII, auctoritate regia institutus(6 vols., 1810–34). The Staffordshire returns come in Vol. III.

[63]Letters and Papers, ix, 354.

[64]Cf.infra, Ch. v.

[65]Vol. III, pp. 99–152.

[69]His will is printed in theJournal of the Derbyshire Archæological and Natural History Society, Vol. VII (1885), pp. 226–233.

[70]Annales de Burtonare printed inAnnales Monastici, Vol. I (1864), edited by H. R. Luard, M.A.

[71]Valor Ecclesiasticus, iii, 144.

[72]Valor Ecclesiasticus, iii, 146.

[73]Cal. Pat. Rolls, Edw. III, 1313–18, pp. 428, 447, 564; 1318–23, pp. 116, 694.

[74]Cal. Pat. Rolls, Edw. III, 1307–13, pp. 331, 335, 343.

[77]Cunningham,Growth of English Industry and Commerce, i, 625–632.

[78]A Description of Leicestershire, by William Burton (1622), p. 119.

[79]Cf.supra, p. 47.

[80]The tradition is recorded by J. Bacon in the Preface to his edition (1786) of Ecton’sThesaurus rerum Ecclesiasticarum, the first edition of which was printed in 1711. Ecton and Bacon were both officials of the Office of First-Fruits and Tenths.

[81]In 1535, Cranmer wrote to Cromwell: “I understand the Priory of Worcester is to be shortly void. If so, be good to ... Dn. Richard Gorton, B.D., of the house of Burton-on-Trent.”—Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, ix, 971.)

[82]Valor Ecclesiasticus, 126.

[83]Ibid., 163.

[84]Ibid., 149.

[85]Valor Ecclesiasticus, iii, 226.

[86]Cal. Pat. Rolls, Henry IV, 1405–8.

[87]“Early Chancery Proceedings,” Bundle 6, No. 50 (Salt Collections, N.S., vii, 244).

[88]Vol. III, 103.

[89]In the twelfth century Margery, daughter of Sir Ralf de Coven, endowed the Nunnery with this annual rent in Horsebrook. (Original Deed at Chillington, printed inSalt Collections, iii, p. 211.)

[90]Cf. Appendix i.

[91]Valor Ecclesiasticus, iii, 125.

[92]Glaston is obviously a misprint for “Ellaston,” a mistake easily made. Cf.supra, p. 34.

[93]Cf.supra, p. 50.

[94]Cal. Pat. Rolls, Rich. II, 1377–81, pp. 362, 516.

[95]Salt Collections, iii, 163, 182; N.S., ix, 298.

[96]Valor Ecclesiasticus, iii, 123.

[97]Valor Ecclesiasticus, iii, 104 (cf.Letters and Papers, viii, 191).

[98]Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, xvi, 678.

[99]Valor Ecclesiasticus, iii, 107.

[100]Cf.infraCh. vii.

[101]Valor Ecclesiasticus, iii, 124.

[102]Valor Ecclesiasticus, iii, 114.

[103]Exchequer Augmentation Office: Miscellaneous Books, Vol. 400, p. 108–9.

[104]Salt Collections, viii, 195, 197.

[105]Valor Ecclesiasticus, iii, 110.

[107]Cf.infraAppendix iv.

[108]Cf.infra, p. 145.

[109]Salt Collections, N.S., iv (13 Edw. IV).

[110]Valor Ecclesiasticus, iii, 113.

[111]Salt Collections, xi, 322.

[112]Cal. Pat. Rolls, Edw. I, 1292–1301, p. 253 (cf. pp. 248, 252);Pat. Rolls, 15 Edw. II (Salt Collections, xi, 299).

[113]Valor Ecclesiasticus, iii, 108.

[114]De Banco Roll, Hilary 10–11, Edw. III (Salt Collections, xi, 72).

[115]Supra, p. 21.

[116]Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, viii, 56.

[117]Ibid., viii, 682.

[118]Wright’sLetters, p. 114.

[119]Valor Ecclesiasticus, iii, 142.

[120]Valor Ecclesiasticus, iii, 57.

[121]Wright’sLetters, 156.

[122]Wright’sLetters, 157.

[123]Wright’sLetters, 93.

[124]Ibid., 95.

[125]Letters and Papers, ix, 517.

[126]Ibid., x, 364.

[127]Ibid., x, 1088.

[128]Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, Vol. X, 1238. [Gairdner,English Church, does not include Tutbury in his list on p. 420.]

[129]Cf.Dict. Nat. Biog., xlviij, 123.

[130]Ibid., xlvj, 135.

[131]Ibid., ix, 363.

[132]Letters and Papers, x, 613.

[133]Letters and Papers, x, 741.

[134]Ibid., 749.

[135]Letters and Papers, x, 886.

[136]Ibid., 754.

[137]Ibid., 1178.

[138]Letters and Papers, x, 324.

[139]Letters and Papers, xii, Pt. II, 638.

[140]Ibid., xii, Pt. I, 1104; Pt. II, 1008(1), 456, 411 (2) and (12); xiii. Pt. II, 456, 364, 343, 370.

[141]Ibid., xii, Pt. I, 819.

[142]Letters and Papers, xii, Pt. II, 531.

[143]Letters and Papers, xiii, Pt. I, 456.

[144]Cf.infra, p. 186.

[145]Cf.infra, pp. 175, 227, 233, 240, 272–6.

[146]Letters and Papers, xii, Pt. II, 611.

[147]Letters and Papers, xiii, Pt. I, 1520.

[148]Public Record Office,State Papers, Dom., Henry VIII, Vol. 120, No. 143.

[149]Letters and Papers, xiii, Pt. II, 44, 56, 61.

[150]Ibid., 170.

[151]Letters and Papers, xiii, Pt. II, 49.

[152]Ibid., 50.

[153]Ibid., 44.

[154]Letters and Papers, xiii, Pt. II, 79.

[155]Ibid., 56 (Aug. 9, 1538).

[156]Letters and Papers, xiii, Pt. II, 56.

[157]Ibid.

[158]Letters and Papers, xiii, Pt. II, 61.

[159]Wright’sLetters, 203, 204.

[160]Burnet, iv, 490.

[161]Letters and Papers, xiii, Pt. II, 281.

[162]Wright’sLetters, 143.

[163]Letters and Papers, xiii, Pt. I, 317.

[164]Ibid., Pt. II, 164.

[165]Ibid., 1051.

[166]Letters and Papers, xiii, Pt. II, 652.

[167]Ibid., 736.

[168]Ibid., 1143.

[169]Letters and Papers, xiii, Pt. II, 168; Wright’sLetters, 267, 270.

[170]Wright’sLetters, 282.

[171]Wright’sLetters, 267.

[172]Wright’sletters, 278.

[173]Letters and Papers, xiii, Pt. II, 343.

[174]Public Record Office, Exchequer Augmentation Office, No. 247.

[175]Ibid., No. 206 (Letters and Papers, xiii, Pt. II, 364).

[176]Public Record Office, Exchequer Augmentation Office, No. 66 (Ibid., 370).

[177]Public Record Office, Ministers’ Accounts, Divers Counties, No. 230, Bundle 61 (Accounts of John Scudamore, membrane 6): “Nuper Monasterii de Roucester—de precio trium campanorum nuper Monasterii de Roucester remanentium in Campanilia Ecclesiae parochialis ibidem non de eo quod parochiani de Roucester predicta Clamant easdem campanas sibi et parochianis ibidem pertinere et remanere super clamentium suum quousque determinentur coram Cancellario et Consilio Curiae Augmentationis etc. Si dictum clamentium verum sit necne quia easdem campanas occupabuntur et usi fuerunt tam per nuper Religiosos quam eciam per parochianos de Rocester predicta pulsandas ad divina servicia et aliter. Summa nulla.”

[178]Exchequer Augmentation Office, Miscellaneous Books, Vol. 172.

[179]Appendix, iii, iv, v.

[180]Letters and Papers, xiii, Pt. II, 586.

[181]Ibid., 628.

[182]Letters and Papers, xiii, Pt. II, 627.

[183]Ibid., 634 (Exchequer Augmentation Office, 220).

[184]See the Inventory in Appendix v.

[185]Letters and Papers, xiii, Pt. II, 656.

[186]Sleigh’sLeek, p. 64. “Cole’s MS., 26, 246, contains the Deposition of John Whitney, late Chamberleyne to the last Abbot of Dieulacresse, taken 8 Jany., 7oElizh. Hereby it appeared that 4 or 5 days after the suppression of that Abbey, several Blanks, having the Covent-sealle, were seene by the Deponent, the Abbot and others being privy. Upon these blanks Wm. Damport, the Abbot’s Scribe, wroteLeases, with Ante-Dates: and among the rest one was the Lease and Reversion of the Mannour of Poultone.”

[187]Wright’sLetters282.

[188]Ibid.286.

[189]Ibid.206.

[190]Letters and Papers, xiii, Pt. II, 1233.

[191]Ibid., xvi, 745.

[192]Ibid., ix, 971; cf.supra, p. 83n.

[193]Ibid., xiii, Pt. II, 1051.

[194]Ibid., 1052.

[195]Cf. Appendix xii, xiii, where many interesting details are given of the journey and the whole business.

[196]Cf. Appendix v.

[197]Cf. Appendix iii.

[198]Cf. Appendix v.

[199]Cf. Appendix iv.

[200]Cf. Appendix vi, vii, viii.

[201]History of England, i, 41 n.

[202]Cf. Appendix v, vi.

[203]Cf.supra, pp. 154, 155.

[204]Supra, p. 39.

[205]Cf. Appendix iii.

[206]Cf. Appendix iv.

[207]Cf. Appendix v.

[208]Monasticon, v, 383.

[209]Cf.supra, p. 164.

[210]Bazin’s novel, translated into English under the title ofThe Nun, describes the suppression of a French nunnery in recent years, and the after-history of the sisters. It is very instructive.

[211]Wright’sLetters, 243.

[212]Sleigh’sLeek, 140.

[213]Ibid., 64. He left his chalice of silver-gilt to his “servant and nephew Nicholas Whitney,” stipulating that if the Abbey were ever restored the chalice should be returned to it.

[214]His rent-roll of lands which he continued to manage, dated Oct. 6th, 34 Hen. viij, is in the William Salt Library at Stafford (Box 145).

[215]Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, xvi, 617.

[216]Ibid., App. i.

[217]Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, xvi, 866.

[218]Ibid., 324.

[219]Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, xvi, 745, 425, 258.

[220]Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, xiii, Pt. ii, 1220.

[221]Cf.supra, p. 34.

[222]Valor Ecclesiasticus, iii, 128 (printed “Glaston”).

[223]Printed inAnnales Monastici, Vol. I (1864). Another copy is in the Library of the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield.

[224]Addit. MS., 23, 944. See App. xiv.

[225]British Museum, Royal MS., 15, B, iv.

[226]Cottonian MS., Vespasian E., xxiv, cxv.

[227]Wright’sLetters, p. 71. Strype, Vol. I, pt. i, p. 324.

[228]Wright’sLetters, 291.

[229]Letters and Papers, xii, Pt. I, 767: Dr. Pole to Bp. Lee (Mar. 29th, 1537), “I know none within your diocese of seditious opinions touching the bishop of Rome or favourable to the late insurrections.”

[230]A kind of figured linen.

[231]i.e., cooling pans.

[232]? Cyfus or Cyphus = a drinking-cup.

[233]i.e., flagons.

[234]i.e., spit.

[235]i.e., a small handmill for grinding mustard.

[236]i.e., a basket or other vessel for clearing away the remains of a meal.

[237]i.e., iron.

[238]i.e., ornamented with work illustrating the Nativity of Christ.

[239]i.e., lavatory

[240]i.e., saucepan.

[241]i.e., an iron hook for hanging a pot over the fire.

[242]i.e., coolers.

[243]i.e., cistern.

[244]i.e., seven score and nineteen = 159.

[245]A fother = 19½ cwt.

[246]i.e., vats.

[247]i.e., sanctus bell.

[248]beer coppers (wort = new unfermented beer).

[249]i.e., time allowed, respite, credit; cf. Chaucer,The Franklin’s Tale, l. 847, “bysecheth ... to graunte him dayes of the remenaunt.”

[250]i.e., dormitory.

[251]“Walter Charnels” was Bailiff of the town of Burton (cf.supra, p. 90).

[252]i.e., cushions.

[253]i.e., treasurer.

[254]Sir William Paget was Clerk of the Signet and Privy Councillor, afterwards Baron Paget of Beaudesert (cf.Dict. Natl. Biog., xliii, 60).

[255]Public Record Office. Particulars for Grants, 10 Jan., 37 Hen. viii. Sir William Paget.Request to exchange (1) [lined through]. Lands appointed unto the King by Sir Will. Paget,viz., farm of the manor or late hospital of Kepeyere (Durham); (2) [lined through] in exchange for farm of the manor of Nantwich; farm of the demesne of Burton-on-Trent with site of the late college, and the demesne lands pertaining.[Kepier is described in the Aug. Off. Misc. Book, 400, as being in the county of York: it is in Easington Ward, co. Durham. The Hospital there was surrendered and granted to Sir William Paget 36 Hen. viij.]

[255]Public Record Office. Particulars for Grants, 10 Jan., 37 Hen. viii. Sir William Paget.

Request to exchange (1) [lined through]. Lands appointed unto the King by Sir Will. Paget,viz., farm of the manor or late hospital of Kepeyere (Durham); (2) [lined through] in exchange for farm of the manor of Nantwich; farm of the demesne of Burton-on-Trent with site of the late college, and the demesne lands pertaining.

[Kepier is described in the Aug. Off. Misc. Book, 400, as being in the county of York: it is in Easington Ward, co. Durham. The Hospital there was surrendered and granted to Sir William Paget 36 Hen. viij.]

[256]Cf.supra, pp. 158, 168.

[257]William Scudamore was John Scudamore’s son. He acted as Clerk to Robert Burgoyn, one of the Commissioners for Northamptonshire, etc. (cf. Wright’sLetters, p. 281).

[258]i.e., never.

[259]John Lambert had held this office under the Abbey at the time ofValor Ecclesiasticus(cf.supra, p. 90).

[260]The details of the expenses incurred by Goodrick and Scudamore in the journey from London to Burton and back are most interesting, showing as they do the cost of meals, etc., at the various places where they stayed. It may be compared with the “book of accounts” of Lenthall, auditor of the attainted lands, in his journey from London to the North in 1541. (Letters and Papers, xvi, 1490.)

[261]One of Cromwell’s men was named Thomas Palmer (cf.Letters and Papers, xiv, Pt. I, 1039, 1060).

[262]Brickhill is near Fenny-Stratford.

[263]i.e., Daventry.

[264][lined through in original.]

[265][lined through in original.]

[266]John Williams had been one of Cromwell’s agents so long ago as 1536 at least. In that year he had been deputed with Sir John Clark (Commissioner of the Peace in Oxfordshire) and George Gifford to investigate a complaint which had been lodged against Sir John Browne that his mill “doth annoye the Kinges other Subgiettes ... in the surunding and overflowing of their groundes.” (Letters and Papers, xi, 446; cf. 227, 353, 888.) He had also been one of the Commissioners of the Dissolution, and had visited Bury St. Edmund’s, Ely, Winchester, Hyde, Eynsham, and Notley (Bucks.). (Cf. Wright’sLetters, pp. 145, 147, 220, 233, 235.)

[267]This was a common name for the Bible down to the fourteenth century.

[268]Four homilies on the text, “missus est angelus” (St. Luke i, 26), composed by St. Bernard about the year 1120 (cf. Morison, p. 49).

[269]A treatise on the Ten Commandments.

[270]Probably ascribed wrongly to St. Augustine instead of to St. Ambrose.

[271]Epistola Augustini ad Iulianum comitem.

[272]Hugh of St. Victor, near Paris (A.D.1097–1141). His works includeIn Ecclesiasten homiliae,de Institutione Novitiorum, andMystica archae Noe descriptio. See also Note 19infra.

[273]See last note.

[274]Expositio in beatum Job, seu Moralium libri xxxv, by Pope Gregory the Great.

[275]Dialogorum libri iv de vita et miraculis patrum, by the above.

[276]Scintillarum seu sententiarum catholicorum Patrum, a collection of extracts from the Fathers, by Defensor, a monk of Ligugé, near Poitiers, who lived about 800A.D.

[277]Liber Regulae Pastoralis, by Pope Gregory.

[278]Libri duo in Evangelia, viz., 40 Homilies on the Gospels for the day, by the above.

[279]Beati immaculati,i.e., Ps. cxix.

[280]See Note 6supra.

[281]The work of Albertus Magnus (1193–1280) with this title can have been hardly yet written when the list was drawn up. The “book” is therefore more probablyParadisus Heraclidis, the oldest Latin version of theLausiac Historyof Palladius.

[282]There was a Robert, Abbot of Burton from 1150 to 1159, when he was deposed. In 1175 he was re-elected, and died in 1177.

[283]Synonyma de lamentatione animae peccatricis, by St. Isidore of Seville (died 636). The book in question is a dialogue between Homo, bewailing his sinfulness, and Ratio, teaching him aright.

[284]St. Ephraem Syrus (diedc.373), a voluminous writer.

[285]Liber Prognosticorum futuri saeculi, by Julian of Toledo, died 690.

[286]An English writer, born at Hexham, 1109, Abbot of Rievaulx, died 1166. He wrote many historical and theological works, the latter in the style of St. Bernard.

[287]De Eruditione Didascalica, by Hugh of St. Victor, in six books. It is a kind of encyclopædia of sciences, and obtained for its compiler the title of Didascalus or Teacher.

[288]St. Prosper, of Aquitaine, bornc.403.

[289]A monk of Burton named Martin is mentioned in the time of Abbot Bernard (1160–75) in the Burton Chartulary.

[290]Briennius, monk and subprior, of Burton, in the time of Abbot Robert (1150–77), is mentioned in the Burton Chartulary.

[291]St. Ivo of Chartres, died 1115.

[292]i.e.,Leviticuswith notes.

[293]Radbertus was Abbot of Corbie, near Amiens, from 844 to 851. The book which is here named was one of the early arguments in favour of “transubstantiation.”

[294]i.e., Account Book.

[295]Geoffrey was Abbot of Burton from 1114 to 1150. His life of St. Modwen is mentionedsupra, p. 220.

[296]By St. Jerome.

[297]Joannes Eleemosynarius, or Misericors, Patriarch of Alexandria, 609–616; the original patron saint of the Hospitallers.

[298]“The quires or gatherings of which the book was formed generally consisted, in the earliest examples, of four sheets folded to make eight leaves” (Encyclopædia Britannica, xviij, 144), hence “quaternio” or quarto.

[299]St. Martha the Egyptian.

[300]Historia Apostolica ex Luca expressa, a poem in Latin hexameters, which is described as bad in style and treatment, filled with far-fetched metaphors and wearisome digressions. Arator lived in the middle of the sixth century and his poem is dedicated in flattering terms to Pope Vigilius.

[301]See Note 17supra.

[302]See Note 23supra.

[303]i.e., Chapter Books.

[304]St. Caesarius of Chalons, died 542. He wrote a large number of “sermons,” which show a wide knowledge of the Bible and are eminently practical.

[305]Villicus Iniquitatis—the unjust Steward (cf. St. Luke xvj. 8, Vulgate).

[306]See Note 9supra.

[307]Perhaps (1)Apollonius of Tyre, a Greek love-story of the 3rd or 4th century, perhaps translated into Latin verse in the fifth century, and re-translated into Latin prose in the twelfth or thirteenth century. An ancient Anglo-Saxon translation was printed by Thorpe in 1834. Gower’sConfessio Amantis(Bk. viij) is an adaptation of it, and it is also one of the sources of Shakespeare’sPericles. The earliest English version now known was made in 1510 from the French. (SeeEncyclopædia Britannica, Vol. XX, p. 635.) (2) Or,The Life of Apollonius of Tyana, by Philostratus (bornc.175A.D.).

[308]Hugh, the eighth Abbot of Reading, who founded, in the year 1190, a hospital for twenty-six poor people and for the entertainment of travellers.

Transcriber’s Notes:1. Obvious printers’, punctuation and spelling errors have been corrected silently.2. Where hyphenation is in doubt, it has been retained as in the original.3. Some hyphenated and non-hyphenated versions of the same words have been retained as in the original.

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