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VI
THE EDWARDIAN
INVENTORIES FOR
BEDFORDSHIRE
EDITED
F. C. EELES, F.S.A. Scot.
From Transcripts
BY
The Rev. J. E. BROWN, B.A.
Vicar of Stud/iam
LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO
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VI
THE EDWARDIAN
INVENTORIES FOR
BEDFORDSHIRE
EDITED
F. C. EELES, F.S.A. Scot.
From Transcripts
BY
The Rev. J. E. BROWN, B.A.
Vicar ofStudham
LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO
39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON
NEW YORK & BOMBAY
1905
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PREFACE.
THE political exigences of Henry VIII's breach with the
Pope caused him to suppress the English monastic
houses, with the twofold end of crushing that part of the
body spiritual which was the strongest bulwark of papal
power in England, and of obtaining lands to grant to the
nobility, so that he might secure their favour and support.
Begun in 1535 under the pretext of suppressing some of
the lesser houses on account of their corruption, this
policy of sacrilege went on until every religious house
was gone, and in 1545 it was extended to colleges,
chantries and free chapels, although it seems that the
seizure of the plate and ornaments of these latter did not
take place until early in the reign of Edward VI. It is
easy to see that this work of sacrilege and confiscation
was not likely to stop short of the parish churches, and
it began to be extended to them at the very beginning
of the reign of Edward VI. Enquiries as to the goods
of parish churches were made of the bishops in 1547,
and early in 1549 a commission for making inventories
was issued to sheriffs and justices of the peace. On
3rd March 1551 it was ordered by the Privy Council
" that for as muche as the Kinge's Majestic had neede
presently of a masse of mooney, therfore Commissions
shulde be addressed into all shires of Englande to take
into the Kinges handes suche churche plate as re-
maigneth, to be emploied unto his highnes use."1 This
however was not done immediately. On 2Qth January
1552 a letter was addressed to each custos rotulorum
requiring the delivery of the inventories which had been
made under the commissions of 1549. A commission
to make new inventories and stop all private embezzle-
ment was issued on i6th May 1552,2 and it was under
1 Acts of the Privy Council of England, N.S. iii (1550-1552) p. 228.
2 For full text see below, p. ix.
IV PREFACE
this commission that most of the inventories now at the
Public Record Office were taken, including those printed
in the earlier part of the present volume. A new
commission was issued on i6th January 1553 directing
the actual seizure of all the valuables, only the barest
necessaries being left for the use of each church.1 The
result of this was that the plate was sent to the Jewel
House in the Tower of London and melted down, the
vestments and the inferior metal work were sold locally,
the linen given to the poor. Thus the sacrilege was
complete. The lead and bells do not seem to have been
actually taken.2
A necessary accompaniment of this wholesale seizure
of ecclesiastical property was of course the taking of
careful inventories of it. A great number of these still
remain, ranging in date from 1536, when those of the
religious houses begin, until 1553 — the date of the latest
Edwardian returns for parish churches. This great
series of i6th century inventories, despite its shameful
origin, is of the highest legal, historical and liturgical
importance. No other country can show the like.
Notwithstanding their obvious value, little more than half
the inventories have hitherto been printed, and some of
these are in comparatively rare publications which are
not easy of access.
Until all such inventories are printed accurately and
published in an accessible way, it is impossible to form
a just estimate of their contents, or to write a detailed
history of the spoliation of our churches by Henry VIII
and Edward VI, or indeed to deal properly with the
subject of church furniture and ornaments in the i6th
century in England as a whole. This the Alcuin Club
1 This commission has often been printed : see Seventh Report of the
Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, London, 1846, Appendix II.,
p. 307, or Surtees Society vol. 97, p. 4, or Book of Common Prayer with
notes by A. J. Stephens, London 1849, v°l- i-> P- 3 5 6, or Church Goods
in Berkshire, by Walter Money, Oxford, 1879, p. xxxii.
2 By far the best account of the spoliation at present available is that
written by Mr. Page and prefixed to his invaluable book of Inventories
of Church Goods for the Counties of York, Durham and Northumberland,
Surtees Society, vol. 97.
PREFACE V
intends to do as soon as it is practicable, but it is
obviously impossible while half the material is lying
scattered in MS. at the Record Office. The Committee
therefore is first addressing itself to the work of getting
all the material transcribed, and printed in an accessible
form. In some cases it is hoped that the inventories
may be printed by local archaeological societies : where
nothing else is possible the club will endeavour to do it,
but from the expensive character of the work it is
doubtful how much will be able to be done unless
financial help comes in from outside.
As a first instalment the Edwardian inventories for
the county of Bedford are now published. The tran-
scripts have been made by the Rev. J. E. Brown, and
collated with the originals by Mr. F. C. Eeles, who is
also responsible for the introduction.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
[With references to the documents in the Public Record Office]
PAGE
INTRODUCTION ix.
Commission for survey of Bedfordshire church goods i6th May, 1552 ix.
(Rot. Pat. 6 Edw. VI., p. 7, m. 12 in dorso)
INVENTORIES OF 1552
HUNDRED OF MANSHEAD
BATTLESDEN - ... (Ex. K. R. CH. GOODS Jj1) I
EVERSHOLT .... „ 2
HARLINGTON - „ 3
HOUGHTON REGIS - „ 4
HULCOTE „ 4
HUSBORNE CRAWLEY - »» 5
SALFORD „ 7
TINGRITH „ 8
TILSWORTH .... (Ex. K. R. CH. GOODS £$) 8
WESTONING .... (EX. K. R. CH. GOODS *£) 9
HUNDRED OF BARFORD
EATON SOCON - (EX. K. R. CH. GOODS ^-) 1 1
HUNDRED OF REDBORNESTOKE
CRANF1ELD ... - (EX. K. R. CH. GOODS V") 1 3
HUNDRED OF WIXAMTREE
FARNDISH (EX. K. R. CH. GOODS J) 15
STAGSDEN ... - (EX. K. R. CH. GOODS V") *5
MARIAN DOCUMENTS RELATING TO BEDFORDSHIRE CHURCH GOODS.
MEPPERSHALL - - - - (Ex. K. R, CH. GOODS y) If
viii CONTENTS
rACB
LUTON - - - (Ex. K. R. CH. GOODS tf) 22
STRETLEY - „ 24
HOUGHTON CONQUEST „ 24
WILLINGTON - „ 25
DUNSTABLE „ 26
HARLINGTON - „ 26
TODDINGTON - - „ 26
LUTON „ 27
HOUGHTON CONQUEST „ 27
SANDY - - - (Ex. K. R. CH. GOODS Bdle. 14) 29
(Formerly L. R. CH. GOODS Bdle. 1392, File 4 no. i)
WILLINGTON - - (Ex. K. R. CH. GOODS Bdle. 14) 30
(Formerly L. R. CH. GOODS. Bdle. 1392, File 3 nos. i to 3)
APPENDIX I.
INVENTORY OF WOBURN ABBEY
CHURCH 1537 - - (Ex. K. R. CH. GOODS J-§) 40
APPENDIX II.
Return of defaced plate from Bedfordshire delivered into the Jewel House
between ist June 1553 and 4th Feb. 1554
(Ex. K. R. CH. GOODS #) 42
A List of Names of Persons 42
INTRODUCTION TO THE EDWARDIAN
INVENTORIES FOR BEDFORDSHIRE.
VERY few of the Edwardian inventories for Bedfordshire
have come down to us ; only 14 of those taken in 1552,
from a total of about 125 parish churches. They were
the result of the following Commission, under which
most of the later Edwardian inventories were made.
This document has often been printed before, but as it
is given in full for Bedfordshire on the Patent Roll, the
alterations as to names required to adapt it for other
counties being indicated at the end, it has been thought
well to print it once again.
Rot. Pat. 6 Edw. VI. p. 7, m. 1 2 in dorso.
Edward the syxt &c. To our deare Cousyn and
Counsaillour William Marques of Northampton great
Chamberleyn of Englond and to our trustie and right
welbeloved John Lord Braye and to our trustie and
welbeloved John Seynt John and Uryan Brereton
Knightes and to our welbeloved Lewes Dyve and
Richard Snowe Esquyers greting Whereas We have
at sundry tymes heretofore by our speciall Commyssion
and otherwyse commaunded that ther shuld be takyn
and made a just veu survey and inventory of all maner
goodes plate juelles vestymentes belles and other orna-
mentes within every paryshe belongyng or in any wyse
apperteynyng to any Churche Chapell Brothered Gylde
or Fraternyty within this our Ralme of Englond and
uppon the same inventory so taken had or made
our commaundement was and hathe ben that all the
same goodes plate juelles vestmentes belles and other
ornamentes shuld be safely kept and appoyncted to the
charge of such persons as shuld kepe the same safely
and be ready to aunswere to the same at all tymes
according to the whiche our Commyssyons and sundry
Commaundements. We were advertysed by our said
Commyssioners then appoyncted and by other meanes
X INTRODUCTION
also that the said goodes plate juelles vestymentes belles
and other ornamentes of the said Churches Chapelles
Brotherheddes Gyldes Fraternytyes and Companyes
were not only vieued and duly surveyd but also that
the inventories thereof were made by indenture and thon
part of the same remayned with our Gustos Rotulorum
of that Countye or hys deputye or Clerke of the peax at
that tyme being and the other part with the churche-
wardens and such men as had the charge of the same
goodes and other inventories also made by our com-
maundement by our Busshopes and their ecclesiasticall
Officers were lykewyse by them retorned hyther to our
Counsaill : yet nevertheless for that we be informed that
somme part of the said goodes plate juelles belles and
ornamentes of Churches be in somme places embeselled
or removed contrarye to our former expresse com-
maundements and manyfestlye to the contempt and
derogacion of our honur in that behalfe We have
thought mete to have the very truthe herin justly and
duly knowen to thintent the same may be as ys most
necessarye redressed and furthwith reformed. And for
that purpose for the good knowledge and experyence
had in your trustynes faithfulnes wisdome and uprightnes
we have appoyncted you to be our speciall Commyssioners
and by auctoryty herof do name appoynct and auctoryse
you four or three of you to take and receave a due full
and just vieu of all goodes plate juelles belles and
ornamentes of every Churche and Chapell in whose
hands soever the same be belonging or in any wyse
apperteynyng to any the said Churches Chapelles Gyldes
Brotherheddes or Fraternyties within that our Countie
of Bedford. And upon the said vieu so taken to cause
a true just and full perfect inventorye to be made of the
same and to compare the same with the best of the
former inventories heretofore made and remaynyng with
the said Churchwardens or suche other as then hadd
the same in charge. And for the defaultes and wantes
yf any shalbe eyther of the said plate juelles belles
vestymentes or any other ornamentes or any part of
theym any maner of wyse to make diligent inquyrye
and serche as well by the othes of suche honest men as
INTRODUCTION XI
ye shall thinke mete to sweare therfore as any other
convenyent meanes to knowe and understand by whose
default the same hath bene removed embesiled aliened
or dimynyshed. And also in whose possession the same
thinges or any part therof so spoiled removed embeselled
or demynysshed do remayne or to whose use the money
and profett therof ys made or is comme according to
the further meanyng of certen instrucions sent to you
herewith and of your hole doynges in this behalf to
retorne unto us and our Pryvey Counsaill in wryting
your answere accordingly. And yf ye shall fynde any
person or persons that wilfully or stubburnlye will refuse
to obey any precept or commaundement which you our
said Commyssioners foure or three of you shall geve
unto theym in or about thexecucion of the premisses that
then we gyve unto you full power auctorytie to commytt
every suche person or persons to warde and pryson ther
to remayne without baill or maynprice untyll suche tyme
as you shall think the same ymprisonment to be condigne
for his or their offences. Wherfore Wee will and com-
maunde you and every of you to attende and execute
the premysses accordinglye and moreover Wee will and
commaund all and singuler Mayours Shereffes Bayllyffes
Constables Hedboroughes all Curates Parsons Vicars
Churchwardens and all other our Offecers Minysters
and faithfull Subjectes that they and every of them be
ayding helping counsailling assisting and furthering you
in and aboute the due execucion herof as they tender
our pleasure and will aunswer to the contrarye at ther
extreme perells. In Witnes wherof &c. TR apud [sic\.
[Westmonasterium, xvj die Maij.]
Fiant consimiles separales Commissiones directae
personis subscriptis in Com[itatibus] Ciuitatibus Episco-
pat[ibus] et Villis subscriptis.
Bedford.
The Marquess of Northampton.
The Lord Braye.
Syr John Saynt John.
Syr Uryan Brerton.
Richard Snowe.
Lewes Dyve.
Xll INTRODUCTION
Besides these fourteen Edwardian inventories, there is
a series of documents connected with the attempt which
was made in Queen Mary's reign to rescue for church
use those ornaments which had been privately embezzled
or unlawfully made away with. These documents are
of great interest and are given in full.
The inventory of Woburn Abbey taken in 1537 — the
only extant Bedfordshire example of the earlier returns
— has been printed as Appendix I.
The Bedfordshire inventories are written in various
hands upon sheets of paper of different sizes and they
are now indexed at the Record Office as Exchequer
King's Remembrancer Church Goods ^ and are tied
up in a single bundle, except those for Farndish
(Ex. K. R. Ch. Goods *) and Tilsworth (Ex. K. R.
Ch. Goods B) which are separate. The Woburn
inventory (Ex. K. R. Ch. Goods il) has been carefully
bound into a book among other similar inventories.
Several of the following documents now appear in
print for the first time. The rest were printed in
Bedfordshire Notes and Queries.^ It has been thought
well to give them again because Bedfordshire Notes and
Queries is such an exceedingly scarce publication, and
the edition of them given there is by no means accurate.
Exact literal accuracy has been observed in the
printing of these documents, but nearly all contractions
have been extended. Capital letters have been uniformly
used for all proper names, and small letters have been
substituted for many unnecessary capitals in the originals.
The letters "di" (really a contraction for the Latin
dimidia = half) have been allowed to remain unaltered.
As the spelling is so very erratic throughout it has been
thought unnecessary to use the symbol (f) to indicate
places where unusual spellings or apparent mistakes
have been retained. The signatures of the com-
missioners appear in full at the end of each inventory,
but they have only been printed in full under the first.
In printing some of the long depositions of witnesses
among the Marian documents, it has been thought well
to introduce commas to facilitate reading, in place of the
1 Vol. i., p. 277, Bedford, 1886.
INTRODUCTION xiii
hurried strokes and dots of the originals. The inven-
tories are arranged in alphabetical order under the
hundreds in which the churches are situated. Ten
out of the fourteen are in the hundred of Manshead, in
the south western part of the county ; of the rest two are
from the hundred of Wixamtree, and one each from
those of Barford and Redbornestoke. The hundreds
of Biggleswade, Clifton, Flitt, Stodden and Willey are
unrepresented.
A revising hand, presumably that of one of the
commissioners, appears to have been over each in-
ventory, correcting occasional mistakes and adding a
sentence to the effect that the goods were committed to
the custody and keeping of certain of the churchwardens.
These few Bedfordshire inventories contain little that
is remarkable. As usual in inventories of this kind
very few patens are specified. They are evidently
intended to be included when chalices are mentioned.
One tin chalice1 is recorded — at Husborne Crawley—
and there was one of copper gilt at Eversholt. The
material of the chalices of Cranfield and Farndish is
not specified, although it was evidently silver, as the
weights are given. Candlesticks are only recorded at
five out of the fourteen churches — two in each case,
except at Cranfield, where four are mentioned, probably
pairs for two altars. Censers are recorded at six
1 " Tin " chalices were not common at this time, although they are
occasionally to be found in inventories ; copper ones were also rather
scarce. But it is more than probable that by " tin " the mediaeval
writers meant what is called pewter now. A canon in the Decretum
attributed to a council of Rheims (? A.D. 819) while requiring chalices
to be of gold or silver, allowed the use of tin in cases of poverty
(De cons., dist. i., c. Et calix.) But in 1175 Richard, archbishop of
Canterbury, forbade tin " ne stanneum calicem aliquis episcopus
ammodo benedicat interdicimus " and his constitution was adopted
as part of the canon law in England (G. Lindewode Provinciate
lib. iii., tit. De celeb, miss. c. Precipimus). Lindewode (tit., De
summa trin., c. Altissimus, v. In calice) goes further, and says that
copper ought not to be used, but after quoting Archbishop Richard
against tin saying "nunquid licet conficere in calice stagneo" he
ends by saying that the constitution of the archbishop is to be
interpreted in accordance with the Rheims canon, and therefore allows
tin propter panpertatem.
XIV INTRODUCTION
churches — two in each case, with a ship at Eaton Socon.
Latten basons, presumably for washing the celebrant's
hands, are mentioned at Hulcote and Westoning, there
being two at the latter.1 Three pixes are recorded2 —
one of latten, one of copper and one of copper gilt, but
only one pax, one lamp, and one stock for holy water.
The churches were well supplied with bells, Harlington
and Eaton Socon having as many as five, six churches
having four and the rest three.3 At Husborne Crawley
they had " j hanbell and a sawnce bell." In some cases
"hanbeH'' may mean the bell rung in front of the
procession at funerals in contradistinction to the sacring
bell rung at the altar. As a general rule in England
of old the "saunce" bell was a comparatively large bell
which hung outside the church, either in the tower with
the other bells or in a bell-cot by itself, and it was used
at the elevation whether a small handbell was rung at
the altar or not. That "saunce bell" meant an outside
bell is well shown in one of the Marian documents
printed below, where a complaint is made that one
John Leventhorpe had embezzled a saunce bell at
Meppershall " Imprimis he had a saunce bell hangyng
in the belfrey and converted the same to his owne use."
Here the saunce bell clearly must have hung in the
belfry with the other bells : the words "hangyng in the
1They may possibly have been used as alms basons, or for the
adorning of the altar. Two basons were left by will in 1502 to
St. Mary Woolnoth, London, to serve both these purposes. See Mr.
Micklethwaite's Ornaments of the Rubric, Alcuin Club Tract no. i,
p. 41. Cf. also the inventory, taken in 1540, of Thornton Curtis
Priory, Lincolnshire, which contains the entry " Item ij litle altar basons
of silver weinge unc' . . . xvj " (Proc. of Cambridge Antiquarian Society,
no. xliv., vol. x., p. 484). At Toddington in this county they had " a
litle sylver dishe " as appears from one of the Marian documents printed
below, p. 26.
2 Two more are mentioned in the Marian documents — one at Luton
and the other at Toddington. The former was " a pixe of silver and
gylte with a doble glasse" i.e., probably a monstrance with a glass
cylinder used for processions of the Holy Eucharist, e.g., upon Palm
Sunday.
3 vide Church Bells of Bedfordshire, by Thomas North, London,
1883, passim.
INTRODUCTION XV
belfrey " cannot have been used of a handbell rung at
the altar. They had a handbell at Meppershall which
was sold for sixteen pence ; the "saunce bell" was said
to be " worthe to be sold iiij markes or there aboughtes."
" Sacring bell " in a mediaeval inventory generally means
a handbell rung by the clerk at the altar, either as well
as or instead of the outside bell.
Vestments for deacon and subdeacon are mentioned
only at Eaton Socon, but at Stagsden those of red silk
are specified as a suit. The term " vestment " included
so much, that it is probable that most of the other
churches had tunicles, and even other ornaments such as
frontals and curtains, which are not mentioned separately.
The preponderance of the colour green is noticeable ;
the red vestments, as is commonly the case, exceeded
in number those of any other colour except green, but
here the green vestments are fourteen as against eleven
red ones. r
In two cases white vestments are recorded which were
probably used during the first four weeks of Lent — one
of bustian at Harlington, and one of fustian at Tilsworth.
Only one tawny — i.e. probably yellow — vestment is
mentioned, and only one black one.1 The descriptions
are very meagre and nothing is said about the occasions
on which the different colours were used.
In the inventory of Woburn Abbey, 1537, in
Appendix I., we find black "for masse of requiem" "white
fustian for Lent." There is also the entry " i j old
1 Bedfordshire was in the diocese of Lincoln in the middle ages, and
no colour sequence for Lincoln use has come down to us ; at present
we only know of a very fragmentary rule in the late i3th century
Consuetudinary of Bishop Gravesend. Some light may perhaps be
thrown upon the practice — if there ever was any "use" — of the diocese,
when it is possible to make an analysis of the colours of all the vestments
recorded in the Edwardian inventories, but even this is doubtful. On
the whole subject of English liturgical colours see Notes on the History
of the Liturgical Colours, by Dr. J. Wickham Legg, in Transactions of
St. PauTs Ecclesiological Society vol. i., p. 95 and On the English
Liturgical Colours by Mr. St. John Hope in vol. ii., p. 233 of the same :
also On English Liturgical Colours by Mr. Cuthbert Atchley, on p. 89
of Essays on Ceremonial, Library of Liturgiology, vol. iii., London,
Moring, 1904.
XVI INTRODUCTION
chesybilles for vestments " which shows that the word
"vestment" was not synonymous with "chasuble"; the
chasuble, in fact, formed one part of the "vestment,"
which was made up of many separate pieces.
The curious word "dubbings" is used in connection
with albes in the Cranfield inventory. It evidently
signifies the apparels.
Of copes, seven blue are recorded, five green, four red,
besides others. Here again the large number of green
is noticeable. There was one of "russet worset " at
Houghton Regis, and one of linen, the colour of which
is not given.
There is often some difficulty in knowing whether
"altar cloths" in an English inventory mean " frontals "
or the linen cloths. Frontals were often called by some
other name, and the linen cloths were often called towels.
Here a careful examination shows that the frequently
mentioned "altar cloths" are the linen cloths. They
are sometimes specified as being of linen. The towels
are probably what we should call towels. Frontals seem
to be referred to as "hangings," though at Stagsden
they are called " frunts " and the upper frontals "counter
fruntes." At Eversholt however "a coverying for the
auter of olde tawny sylke " probably describes a
frontal. 2
The following entry in the Eversholt inventory is
interesting :—
" Item ann awter clothe of grene sylke which is a
coverynge for the funte."
It shows that a silk font veil was actually in use at
Eversholt when the inventory was taken. At the same
time the Eversholt people had made six curtains of
dornix into " iiij playing cootes."
"A vayll of lynnyn clothe" at Eaton Socon and "a
sheate" at Eversholt are probably Lent veils; so too
1 A few more vestments are mentioned in the Marian documents,
including one of Lyons blue at Meppershall, a crimson velvet cope at
Houghton Conquest, and vestments for deacons and subdeacons at
Willington.
2 " A fronte of red braunched dammaske " was provided at Houghton
Conquest, early in the reign of Mary, v. below, p. 28.
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the veil and "the coverynge for the roode " mentioned
as embezzled at Meppershall ; see below, p. 17.
In seven of the fourteen churches we find the ornament
known as the cross cloth mentioned, and in three of these
cases there were two cross cloths. Cross cloths were
small banners hung to the processional cross ; they were
not allowed according to strict Salisbury use, and in that
diocese they do not seem to have been employed. They
were a common part of the general English use, although
they were not found where the local peculiarities of
Sarum prevailed. Of these ten Bedfordshire examples
four are green, one is red, and the colours of the rest are
not given.
Rochets, presumably for the clerks, are mentioned at
Houghton Regis and Westoning. Only eleven surplices
are mentioned, of which four were at Houghton Regis,
and only fifteen albes, of which nine were at Cranfield.
In most places the albes, were probably included with
the vestments ; the Cranfield inventory is more detailed,
and specifies the albes with the vestments. In the other
cases, where albes are mentioned by themselves, they
were very likely used by the clerks, and did not belong
to the sets of vestments. In only one instance.—
Stagsden — is an amice specified.
Unlike inventories made by the church authorities,
these Edwardian inventories very often do not specify
all that the churches possessed. They give everything
on which money could be raised, and usually a few
valueless things besides, but it is easy to see that the
commissioners were not particular to record every thing
that was of no value. For example at Farndish neither
altar cloth nor corporal is mentioned, and although there
were a vestment and two copes, no surplice is mentioned.
Now even by the Prayer Book of 1552 the linen altar
cloth and the surplice are required, and Farndish church
certainly must have possessed them. Corporals indeed
are only specified at three out of fourteen churches and
surplices only at five. The fact is, these ornaments were
of little or no value, and were sometimes specified, some-
times passed over. The same is probably the case with
frontals and curtains, and perhaps some other things ;
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when of value they were entered, sometimes when of no
value, but in the latter case they were almost as often
left unnoticed.
It is clear that the Edwardian inventories cannot be
looked upon as giving an absolutely exhaustive survey
of church ornaments. They omit many that were of no
pecuniary value. They also omit many things which
must have existed, but which had been safely hidden or
successfully embezzled. For example, at Westoning we
find a cross cloth mentioned, but no cross to hang it on.
It must have existed ; perhaps they hid it, or perhaps
some one had made away with it. So with pixes ; every
church was bound to have one, but only three out of
these fourteen inventories mention them. Cruets are not
mentioned at all in any of these inventories ; they may
have been worthless in many cases or stolen or hidden
in others ; but they obviously must have existed.
While it is necessary to bear all this in mind, it is
equally necessary to remember that there were certain
ornaments, such as censers, textus for gospels and
epistles, silk offertory veils, etc., which many parish
churches never seem to have possessed at all. On the
other hand, because candlesticks are not mentioned at
certain places, we must not conclude that the canon law
rule sine lumine non celebretur was broken. Candles
may have stood in iron pricket candlesticks that were
not worth entering in an inventory ; or they may have
been placed at the ends of the curtain rods ; or more
likely a single torch upon a worthless wooden stick was
held in his hand by the clerk, or stuck in a hole in the
pavement close to the altar. T
The Marian documents here given form a long series
belonging to the commission of enquiry as to the em-
bezzlement of church goods, which was instituted early
in Mary's reign with a view to rescuing as much as
possible for the benefit of the churches which had been
robbed.
1 See for example Alcuin Club Collection i. English Altars, plate viii.
no. i., or Collection ii., Exposition de la Messe, plates 8 and 9, or
Collection v., Dat Boexken van der Missen, plate xx., p. 86, where the
-torch may be seen standing in a hole in the ground.
INTRODUCTION XIX
Of these the first few relate to Meppershall. There
is a note giving particulars of ornaments embezzled there
by one Thomas Stringer, wherein it is said he' ' hath also
serteyne other albes and altar clothes and will not restore
the same. And when the pore demaunde the same he
revileth them and caleth them begarly knaves and evill
entreteth them."
This reference to the poor demanding the linen is
explained by the fact that the last Edwardian commission
(i6th January 1553), while requiring the delivery of plate
into the king's jewel house and the sale of valuables for
his benefit, directed the commissioners "to dystribute
... to the poor people in every parysh . . . the resydue
of the lynnen ornaments and ymplements of the said
churches and chapeles, in suche order and sort as may
be most to Codes glory and our honor."
A marginal note in another hand directs that the same
Thomas [Stringer] should be bound to provide a new
•canopy of sarcenet or satin of Bridges " on thisside the
furst of Aug[ust]," and another note states that he paid
£2 145 8d into the hands of the commissioners as the
value of a chalice and a cope which he had sold.
There are similar documents relating to several other
churches in which various ornaments are incidentally
mentioned, together with the names of persons held to be
responsible for their disappearance. Among them are
•some references to Luton, in which occurs the name of
John Gynneth, vicar from 1537 to 1558, an adherent of
the old learning, well known for his Book of twenty Songs
set to Music, printed in 1530. When applying for the
degree of Doctor of Music in 1531, he stated that he had
composed "all the responses of the whole year in division
song, and had published three masses of five parts and
five masses of four, as also certain symphonies, anti-
phonas, and divers songs for the use of the Church."
There are also other documents regarding the
Meppershall affair; they include the summons of the
1 See Luton Church, Historical and Descriptive. H. Cobbe, London
1899, [prepared for publication and edited by the Rev. Percy Dearmer]
which contains a mass of valuable information relating to the church
history of the district, including some notes on Bedfordshire Chantries
<P- 566)> anfl £ome allusions to vestments at Luton (p. 578).
XX INTRODUCTION
commissioners to Stringer to appear before them at
Westminster, a letter from a certain man named
Hemyng, living at Arlesey, to the commissioners,
excusing Stringer from appearing before them on the
ground of his being "an olde man and not used to-
jorney," and saying that he and some other local com-
missioners had had Stringer before them and examined
him. Stringer's own version of the matter follows —
evidently the deposition he had made before Hemyng —
in which he excuses himself, and blames a certain John
Leventhorpe for embezzling the church goods.
Interesting light upon mediceval custom is thrown by
the long series of documents relating to Willington
which concludes the Marian papers. From these it
appears that the vicar of Willington in Edward VI's
time had presented a certain Thomas Verney1 as being
responsible for the disappearance of some vestments and
plate from the church. The Marian commissioners, who
were endeavouring to rescue embezzled church goods and
return them to the respective churches, caused evidence
to be taken locally in regard to this Willington matter,
and the depositions of the various witnesses are here
given. They knew nothing at all about the vestments
specified and they were unanimous in saying that the
other ornaments did not belong to the church at all, but
were the private property of the squire of Willington,
Sir John Gostwike, who used to lend them to the church
for festivals. One of the witnesses, an old servant of
Sir John Gostwike's, deposed that "as to the crosse of
syllver and gyllt enameled, a payre of cruettes of sillver,
a chalece of syllver and parsell gillt, . . . the same Sir
John Gostwik hadd of his own propre goods, and some-
times the said Sir John wolld commaund the same at
hiethe festivall days to be browght to the churche, and
ther to be sett on the hieth aulter, and used and occupied
to the better adorninge and decoratinge of the churche,
to the greter honor and glory of God. And at every
suche tyme he wolld have the same crosse, cruettes, and
chalice brought home in to his house of Willington at or
1 A note about Verney and these ornaments will be found in one of
the other documents, p. 25.
INTRODUCTION XXI
before the night of the same day and the same were
keppt in the custody of him, that had the rest of his
platte and was accompted of all men as his own propre
goodes and platte." This is a very interesting instance
of the old custom of decking the altar with plate (in this
case, be it noted there was only plate and no reliquaries)
which survived the Reformation and came down to our
own day.
One of the witnesses examined in the Wellington affair
was William Fayry " yoman of the agge of fifty yeares
or ther aboute, arid howshold servaunte withe Sir John
Gostwike for the space of xiiij yeares." He was perhaps
connected with the family of this name whom one finds
at Dunstable about fifty years earlier, where a certain
Henry Fayrey who died in 1516 gave a magnificent red
and gold herse cloth to the Fraternity of St. John the
Baptist. This herse cloth is embroidered with the names
of Henry, Agnes, John and Mary Fayrey, the merchants'
mark of John Fayrey and the arms of the Mercers'
Company, of which John Fayrey was a member. It is
still preserved at Dunstable, and is one of the few old
church ornaments remaining in Bedfordshire. It was
proposed at one time to illustrate it here, together with
the lectern at Leighton Buzzard and the mediaeval
reredoses at Arlesey, Cople, and Eaton Bray, but it was
eventually decided that proper justice could not be done
to it in so small a book, and that pictures of existing
ancient ornaments could be issued to better advantage in
collections by themselves, than intermixed with bulky
documents such as inventories.
Appendix I contains that part of the inventory of the
Cistercian Abbey of Woburn which includes the church
goods. It was taken in August 1537. The church
appears to have been very poor, as it contained but
little. There were " ij lynyn alter clothes upon the alter
and on steyned alter cloth hangyng before the alter"
and "ij laten candelstykes stondyng before the high
alter" none apparently standing upon it. The "white
vestment with a crucyfyx upon it " is a case of a vestment
with a Latin cross on the back, no doubt. These were
very common in England in the i6th century. The
XX11 INTRODUCTION
whole inventory somewhat conveys the impression of a
survival of the more ancient Cistercian simplicity.
To this has been added, as Appendix II the part
relating to Bedfordshire of a long document giving
particulars of defaced plate from all over England
delivered into the royal jewel house in the Tower of
London between ist June 1553 and 4th February, 1554.
A note giving the same particulars is endorsed on the
list of persons responsible for the disappearance of goods
from several churches (v. p. 25.)
INVENTORIES
HUNDRED OF MANSHEAD
[Battlesden]
Batelysden
The inventorie indentyd of all manere of plate jewelles
vestmentes and belles bylongyng to the paryshe churche of
Batelysden in the countie of Bed[ford] made the second day
of Septembere in the vjth yere of the reyng of owre sovereyng
lord kyng Edwarde the syxte exhibyted by Michell Innit
curat William Vincent Henry Fyelde churchwardens John
Trapnell Nicholles Fyelde William Ebbes and William
Exell townsmen
In primis of sylvere percell gylte oon chalice with a patent
weyng xi ounces iij quarters and di
Item a crosse of copper and gylte
Item iij vestmentes oon of green sarsenet oon of green
sylke and oon othere of whyte sylke
Item a cope of rede sylke
Item oon crosse clothe of green sylke
Item of lynnen vj alter clothes f ij towelles f iij albes
Item ij hanbelles
Item in the stepull of the seid churche iij belles
Item the churche and chancell leaded and the porches and
the stepull tyeled
f Commytted to the custodye and saffe kepyng of William
Vincent and Henry Fyeld f
L Seint John Uryan Brereton
Lewys Dyve
Richard Snowe
t The obelus (t) has been used throughout to mark those parts of the
inventories which appear to have been added by one of the com-
missioners.
THE EDWARDIAN INVENTORIES
[Eversholt]
Eversoult
This inventory indentyd of all manner plate juelles vesty-
mentes ornamentes and belles belonginge to the paryshe
churche of Eversoult in the countye of Bedforth. Made the
ijde daye of Septembre in the vjth yere of the reynge of
oure soverayng Edwerd the vjth by the grace of God kyng
of Englond Fraunce and Irelond defender of the feayth and
in erthe supreme hedd of the churche of Englond and
Irelond, by the person John Slowgh the churche wardens
Ryche Whytbreade Thomas Butterfyld, and the Towensmen.
Edmonde Barlee gent. Ambrose Gryggory. Thomas John-
son, and John Brett.
Inprimis one challes of sylwer percell gylt wayinge f vij f
owences iij quarters
Item one other challes of copper and gylte
Item ij copes one blewe velwett thother grene sylke.
Item ij vestymentes one blewe velwett thother grene sylke.
Item xvth auter clothes and towelles
Item one sheate1
Item vj cortens of dornyx wherof ys made iiij playing
cootes :
Item a coveryng for the auter of olde tawny sylke.
Item ami awter clothe of grene sylke which is a coverynge
for the funte.
Item ij corporous cases of blacke velwett
Item ij corporous clothes
Item ij sacrynge belles
Item annolde hearse clothe
Item in the steapull iiij belles
Item the churche chaunsell vestery and steapull all coveryd
with leade
f Commytted to the custodye and saffe kepyng of Thomas
Jonson and John Burtf
[Signatures as before]
ii
i.e., probably the great Lenten veil.
FOR BEDFORDSHIRE. 3
[Harlington.]
Harlingdon
The invytorye indented of all maner of plate jewelles
vestementes ornamentes and belles belongynge to the
parisshe churche of Harlingdon in the com [county] of
Bed[ford] made the seconde daye of September in the
vith yere of the raigne of or soveraigne lord Edward the
sixt by the grace of God of England Fraunce and of
lerland kynge defender Of the faithe, and in erth the
supreme head of the churche of England and lerland
exebyted and delyvered to the kynges his maiestie[s]
comyssyoners by William Alyson vycar Richard Hawkyns
John Nasshe churche wardens John Spycer Ath Helder
Richard Mathew townes men.
In primis one chalice of f silver f percell gylte wayinge ix
unces
Item to crossys of coper and gylte
Item a corpus clothe with a case of syke
Item one payer of sensers of coper
. Item sixse vestmentes v of them of sylke and one of
them of whight bustyan
Item ij copes one of damaske whight and the other of
blew damaske
f Item iij pillowes olde of sylke f
Item in the stepull of the said churche v belles and a
saunce bell The first bell in wydenes ii foote and vii
ynches in depthe ii foote and one ynche the second bell
ii foote and viij ynches in depthe ii foote the thurd bell ii
fote wyde and ii foote depth the fowerth bell iii foote wyde
and ii fote depth and a di the v'h bell iii foote and di wyde
ii foote and di depe the saunce bell wyde xi ynche and ix
ynche depe
Item all the said churche and porche leaded and the
chaunsell tyled and the stepull tyled
-j- Committed to the custodie and safe kepynge of William
Alyson vicar there John Helder and Richard Mathewe f
[Signatures as before]
[Endorsed]
In primis one chalyce sold to John Spycer for iijli iij* iiijd
which was bestowed upon the hye waye
4 THE EDWARDIAN INVENTORIES
[Houghton Regis.]
Howghton Regis
The inventorie indentid of all maner of plate juelles
vestimentes and belles belongynge to the paryshe churche
of Howghton Regis in the countye of Bed[ford] made the
fyrst daye of September in the syxt yere of owr sufferayn
lord kynge Edward the syxth by the grace of God of
Yngland Fraunce and Ireland kynge defender of the fayth
and in earth supprem hed of the chyrch of Yngland and
Ireland : and exhybyted by John Edwardes and Rychard
Webbe chyrch wardens and also Mathew Pedder Wylliam
Straunge and Thomas Willys with other : townsmen
In primis iij chalyces. of the wyche one ys sylver dowble
gylt waynge xxvij ounces and the other ij be sylver parcell
gyllt waynge xxvj ounces.
Item of lattyn ij crosses too pyxes a payre of sencers a
pax and ij lattyn candylstykes
Item f two copes f one cope1 of lynnen clothe, and the
other of russett worsted and the other were stolen when
the chyrch wass robbed
Item xiij olid vestymentes. and the other were taken
away whan the churche wass robbed
Item iiij corporas cases and iij of the clothes were stolen
Item iij hangynges. and iiij lynnen clothes, vj towelles. iiij
surplyces and ij rochettes and ij chestes
f Item a pawle of dyvers colors f
Item iiij belles and the v bell wass not all payd for and
therfore yt wass solid to pay yt
f The churche and steple covered with ledde f
f Committed to the custodie and safe kepynge of John
Edwardes and Richard Webbe f
[Signatures as before]
[Hulcote.]
Hulcott
The inventoris indentyd off all maner off plate jewelles
vestmentes ornamentes and bookes belongyng to the paryshe
1 Struck out.
FOR BEDFORDSHIRE. 5
churche of Hulcot in the counte of Bedfford] made the last
day of August in the syxt yere of the reygne of owr soveren
lord kynge Edward the syxt by the curat churchewardens
and dyvers other the discrete and most substancyall men of
the seid parish appoyntyd for the same and also examyned
by the kynges maiesties commyssioneres in that behalff
assygned whos names to to either part of the seid inventoris
are sub scry by d
In primys one broken chalice f of sylver f with a patent
percell gylte weynge xiij ounces and di Item ii alter clothes
iij towelles
Item one crosse of copper Item one crosse clothe of sylk
Item ij albes and one vestment fred seyf Item ij latten
candilstikes
Item one latten basen Item one lamp of latten
Item a payer of sensures of latten Item a holy water
stop of laten
Item one coop of grene sylke Item one surpclothe l
Item iij lytell belles in the stepell the fore bell in compas
a yeard one foote iij ynches in depthe di yard ij ynches in
compas the second j yard di iiij ynches in depthe di yard vj
ynches the third in compase ij yeards xiij ynches depthe di
yeard vij ynches
Item the seid churche fand steplef coveryd with ledd
and the chauncell and porch tylyd
f Committed to the custodie and safe kepynge of Michell
Shepeherd persone there Thomas Burton and Randoll
Spencer f
[Signatures as before]
[Husborne Crawley.]
Husband Crauley
The inventorye indentyd of all maner of plate vesty-
mentes and belles belongyng to the said paryche chyrche in
the countye of Bedford mayde the fyrste day of Septembre
in the syxte yere of the rayne of our soverayn lord kyng
Edward the syxte by the curat chyrchewardens and dyveres
1 i.e., a surplice.
6 THE EDWARDIAN INVENTORIES
other of the discret and substancyall men of the sayd paryche
appoynted for the same
In primus one chalyce of tynne
Item a crosse of copper
Item of lynnen iiij alter clothes
Item viij towelles
Item ij hangynges before the alter
Item iiij olde lynnen clothes
Item j buckeram hangyng
Item iij vestymentes on of blue 2 sylke 2 welvet l
Item a nother of red 1 sylke l and the thyrd of satten
Item iij copes on of satten and ij of lynnen
f Item oon crosse clothe of red sylke f
Item the sayd chyrche f and stepull f is ledded and the
chancell and the porche is tyled
f Item j hanbell and a sawnce bell f
Thes men beyng present at the makyng of thys inventory
Thomas Byrde clercke
Thomas Allyn and John Matthew chyrchewardens
Nycoles Abbat Rychard Syare
Henrie Mathew and Wylliam Pollens
Item in the steple of the sayde chyrche iiij belles
The grete bell in bredithe iiij foote and hallfe a inche |
in depthe iij foote and v inches and in thycknes iij inches
| The second in bredthe iij foote viij inches in depthe
iij foote ij inches iij quarters in thycknes, ij inches and
iij quarters of an inche. | The thyrde in bredthe iij foote v
inches | in depthe iij foote and hallfe and inche and in thyck-
nes ij inches and a hallfe, The fourthe bell in bredthe ij
foote xj inches, in depthe ij foote v inches, and in thyckness
ij inches and a quarter of a inche
f Commyttedd to the custodye and saffe kepyng of Thomas
Bryd vicare there Thomas Allyn and John Mathew f
[Signatures as before]
1 — 1 In later hand.
2—2 Struck out.
FOR BEDFORDSHIRE. 7
[Salford.]
Salford
The invetory indentyd of all manner of plate jewelles
vestmentes and belles belongyng to the paryshe church of
Salford in the count[ie] of Bedford] maid the second day of
September in the syxt yere of the reyng of or sovereygn
lord Edward the syxt by the grace of God by the curat
churchwardens and dyvers other of the dyscrete and moost
substancyall men of the said paryshe appoynted for the same
and also examyned by the kynges maiesties commyssyoners
in that behalf assigned whose names to eyther part of the
said invetory are subscrybyd
The names of the presenters
Roger Browgh Vicar
^ ,-P [church [wardens] John Lovell townesman
George 1 ownes J
In primis one chales and one patent of Sylver percell gylt
weyng ix ownces
Item of laten one crosse and ij candelstykkes one crosse
clothe of grene sylke and one banner clothe of grene sylk
Item iiij vestmentes one of blew velvett one of whyte
sylk and ij of rede and whyte and ij copes one of rede sylke
and one of dyvers colors
Item in the steple of the said church iij belles the great
bell in compas too yeardes and di in deapth iij quarters and
a nayle The second in compasse ij yerdes and a quarter
in deapth iij quarters The third in compasse ij yerdes in
deapth iij quarters save a nayle
Item the said church f and steple f coveryd with lede and
the chancell and porch tyled
f Item ij hande belles f
f Committed to the custodie and safe kepynge of Roger
Broughe vicare there John Odell and Thomas Butler f
[Signatures as before]
THE EDWARDIAN INVENTORIES
[Tingrith.]
Tyngrythe
The inventory indentyd of all maner of plate vestimentes
ornamentes and belles belongynge to the parryshe of
Tyngrythe in the counte of Bedford maid the seconde day
of September in the syxt yere of the rayne of our soverand
lorde kynge Edwarde the syxt by the curat churche wardens
and dyveres other of the said parryshe appoyntyd for the same
In primis too chalyces of sylver percell gylt weynge xxj
ounces
Item vj alter clothes and vj towelles and one pyllow
Item of coper one pyxe and one crosse
Item iij clothes in paynes red and yelow for the alter
Item ij candylstykes
f Item iii coopes verye olde f
Item vj vestimentes 2 and too copes 2 f one white damaske
and one other grene and the other iiij verie olde f
Item in the stepull of the said churche iij belles weynge
by estymation xxv hundred wyght
Item all the said churche f chauncell and steple f coveryd
with ledde
The names of the presenteres
Patryk Lyntone persone Wylliam Bunkar | Wylliam
Andrew the churche wardens | Symon Lowynge | Thomas
Wytt the townes men
f Commytted to the custodie and safe kepynge of Simont
Lowyn William Bonker and William Andrewe f
[Signatures as before]
2— 2 Struck out.
[Tilsworth.]
Tyllysworth
The Inventorie indentide of all maner of plate
jewelles vestymentes ornamentes and belles belongynge
FOR BEDFORDSHIRE.
to the parrishe churche of Tyllysworth in the counte
of Bedf[ord] made the second day of September in the
vjth yere of the reigne of our sovren lord kinge Edwarde
the syxte by the curate churchwardens and dyveric othere
of the dyscrete and most substancyall men of the seid
parishe appoyntyde for the same and also examynede by
the kynges maiestes commyssionres in that behalffe assigned
whoos names to eithere parte of the seyde inventorie are
subscrybid
In primis of sylver one chalice parcell gylte weynge
eyght ounces
Item ij alter clothes
Item iij vestymentes one of wytte fustyan and one of
rede sylke and a nother of grene sylke
Item iij copes one ys grene sylke a nother ys blew
and the othere ys lyned with youlow bockeram
f Item oon surplesse f
Item in the staple of the seide churche iij bellys beyng
by estimatioon xxx hundred weyght
Item the churche body and the chauncell ys tyled ande
the Ilye thereof f and the stepulle f ys leddid
The names of the The names of the presenters
commissioners Robt Low Vicare
Robt Bonyon
Thomas Grome
Churchwardens
John Pendley
Thomas Carter
Townsmen
f Commytted to the custodie and safFe kepyng of
Robert Bounyon and Thomas Grome f
[Signatures as before]
[Westoning.]
Westonyng
The inventorie indentid of all maner of plate jewelles
vestmentes ornamentes and belles belongyng to the parishe
church of Westonyng in the counte of Bedford made the
IO THE EDWARDIAN INVENTORIES.
second day of Septembre in the syxte yere of reyn of our
soverene lorde kynge Edwarde the syxte, by the curate
churche wardens, and dyver other of the discrete and most
substantiall men of the sayd parishe apponted for the same
In primis too chalices of sylver percell gylte weyng xviij
ounces and a halfe
Item of lynnyn syxe alter clothes iij towelles ij hangyng
and ij crosse clothes
Item of laten too candelstyckes and a bason
Item ij censers of latyn and a herse clothe
Item a xj vestmentes one of grene velvett one blew
satten one of white saten one of red sarcenet one of grene
damaske one of red seye one of red saten one of grene thred
one of blew threde one broches and flowers and one other of
blacke sey
Item v coopes one of blew saten one of red sarcenett one
wroght in the frame of threde one other of blew saten and
one other of grene branched damaske
Item in the stepull of the seyd churche iiij belles, to of
the seyd belles weyng by estymation xvij hundred and
a half, the other to gret belles xxti hundred by estimation
and a saunce bell, to hand belles
Item the churche f chauncell steple and porche f all
covered with leed Item to sacaryng belles
Item ij surplesses and to rochettes
The names of the presenters
John Frances vicar Rychard Punter Rowland Dyxe
churchewardens Edmonde Parsons Henry Wattes
f Committed to the custodie and safe kepynge of John
Fraunces vicare there Richard Punter and Edmonde Parsons f
HUNDRED OF BARFORD.
[Eaton Socon and Wyboston.]
Eton cum Wyboston
Thys inventory of the churche goodes there endentyd the
xjxth day of August the vjt yere of the reynge of cure
soverynge lord Edwarde the syxtt by the grace of God kyng
of Englond Fraunce and Ireland defender of the faythe and
of the churche of Englond and alsoo Irelond in erthe
the supreme hed and presentyd the sayme day and yere at
Bedford to the kynges maiesties comyssioners by Thomas
Alcoke vicar John Tynggay and Nicolas Yssott churche
werdens ther Wylliam Stott Jamys Bercoke Thomas Tynggay
inhabytaunttes of Eton a fore sayde
Fyrst one chalys of sylver doble gyltt weyng xv owunces
Item one chalys of sylver parcell gyltt weyng viij owunces
t qa di f
A crosse of sylver parcel gylt weyng Ixviii owunces
One payre of sylver sensure with a shyp of sylver weyng
xxxviti ounces
On pyx of coper gyltyd
A cope of cremyssyn velvett
One other cope of whytt damaske wythe decon and
subdecon of the sayme
Item a cope of blewe damask with decon and subdecon
to the sayme
Item one cope of gold and velvett with decon and sub-
decon to the sayme
Item one vestment of tawny sylke with decon and subdecon
Item iij vestmentes for everye day and ij crosclothys of
greyn sarsnet
One baner clothe ij lectron clothes | one pylloo for the alter
12 THE EDWARDIAN INVENTORIES
A vayll of lynnyn clothe xii towylles v belles in the
stepyll and a sanctes bell
f The churche chauncell and steple covered with leadde
Committed to the custodye and kepinge of Thomas
Alcock vicarr there John Tyngay Nicholas Isatt and
William Scott f
[Signatures as before.]
HUNDRED OF REDBOURNSTOKE.
[Cranfield.]
Cranfield
[Inventory in]dentyd of all manner of plate jwelles
vestmentes ornamentes and belles belongy[ng to the
churche of Cranfeiljd in the count[ie] of Bedf[ord] maid
the second day of Septembre in the syx[t yere of our
Soverjeng lord Edward the Syxt by the grace of God
of Ynglond France and I[reland Kyng defender of] the
fayth and in earth supreme heade of the same church of
Ynglond and Irelond . . . obert Harreson II churchwardens
Wylliam Purrear John Sugr II and Harr . . . William
Sylkes townesmen II and dyvers other of the dyscrete and
moost substancyall men [appoynted] for the same and also
examyned by the Kynges maiestis commysyoners
[g]ylt tnre chaleces with their patentes weyng
fyfty ounces and half
church iiij belles and as ances bell the wayght
of the fyrst bell by ... second xi. C. thyrd xv C the
fowrth xviij C the sances bell dj C. . . . [c]hurch conteyn-
yng in weyght viijli ... of latten with iij small
belles < ij crosses of latten ij sensors of latten and iiij
candlestykkes of brasse
[Item one] cope of rede velvett and vestment of the
same with albe and dubbynges one cope of grene sylk . . .
chesebelles of the same ij albys with dubbynges l one vest-
ment of whyte chamlett ... the same one cope bawdkyn
a vestment of the same ij chesebles and iij albes II ij old
cop . . . damask II ij clothes of sylk to hang before thalter
thone of red and whyte saten . . . rede and grene damask
u
i.e., apparels.
14 THE EDWARDIAN INVENTORIES
II iiij vestmentes of grene dornykes with albys II one old
. . . [re]de sylke and vestment of the same and one rede
sylk vestment and ij crosse clothes of sylk
vij alter clothes and vij towelles and iij syr-
pleces one payre of organs the said churche ys coveryd
with lede and chauncell also
f . . . the custodie and safe kepynge of William Purrear
John Sugar Henry Wh. . . f
[Signatures as before]
HUNDRED OF WIXAMTREE.
[Farndish.]
Farndyshe
The Invytorie off the churche goodes off Farndysche
made the xviij daye off August the syxte yere off
oure sovereyne lorde Edwarde the syxt by the grace
of God off Englond Fraunce and Irelond kyng defender
off the faythe and in erthe off the churche of Englond
and Irelond supreme heddes by Wylliam Lordisman
persone of the same towne John Fyssher Wylliam
Wede churchewardens there and Roger Wysseman
Reynolde Bett John Poweres off the sayde towne of
Farndische
Fyrst one chalyce off sylver with a paten to the same
weight xij ounces and di
One cope off dune velvett imbrothered with golde
One cope off whight sylke two vestementes one off
satyn off burges thother of wight chamlet
Thre belles in the stepull and a sanctes bell
The seyde churche off Farndische and the chauncell ys
coweryd ovre with ledde
f Committed to the custodye and safe kepinge of
William Lordesman personne there John Power and
William Wede f
[Signatures as before]
[Stagsden.]
Stacheden in com [county] Bed[ford]
The Inventory endented of all the ornamentes and
churche goodes there remaynynge beynge presented before
the kynges maiesties commissioners by Robert Slyngesby
1 6 THE EDWARDIAN INVENTORIES
clarke vycar there Thomas Colston gent Wylliam Bolton
Alexander Yerle Wylliam Money inbytauntes of the same
towne at Bedford the xviijth day of Auguste in the sixte
yere of the reigne of our sovereign lorde kynge Edwarde the
sixte
Rye Cocke ) ~, , ,
fj c } Lhyrchewardenes
George oaunsam J J
In primis one chalyce of sylver percell gilte weyng xvj
ounces
Item one crosse of latten gylted
Item one sylke cope of chesable and one amys with an albe
Item iij fruntes and ij counter fruntes1 of sylke
Item ij corporas 2 clothys2 cases one of clothe of golde
thother of velvett
Item one sute of redde vestymentes with a cope of sylke
Item ij coffers
Item iiij belles in the steple
The churche and the steple covered leade and the
chauncell covered with tyle and slate
f Committed to the custodye and safe kepinge of Robt
Slingesbye vicar there Thomas Colston and William Bolton f
[Signatures as before]
1i.e. upper frontals. 2 — 2 erased.
MARIAN DOCUMENTS RELATING TO
BEDFORDSHIRE CHURCH GOODS.
Ex. K. R. Ch. Goods V
[Meppershall.]
Ornamentes belongyng to the churche of Mepersale
and solde and deteyned by Thomas Stringer of the same
Fyrste one chalesse parcell gylte solde]
unto Leonard Daye for xx crownesf iiijH xixs
somme
Item one cope and a vestment of reddj
velvett solde to Sir Henrye Graye J *
Item one handebell solde to Leonard Daye xvjd
Item the same Thomas detayneth the
veile the coveringe for the roode and
the canapye of clothe and frenged
with sylke The same Thomas dyd
deface a grayle belongyng to the said
churche and he hathe allso serteyne
other albes and alter clothes and will
not restore the same
And when the pore demaunde the same he revileth
them and caleth them begarlye knaves and evill
entreteth them
[In another hand.]
Item iij gret cofers coverd with ieron by estimacion
valewd xxxiijs iiijd Summa vij'i xiijs viijd
Exhibited by William Rolf of Mepersall
[In right margin in another hand.~\
In hys kepynge and makyth part for beddes and part
for hangynges paynted
1 8 MARIAN DOCUMENTS RELATING TO
[In left margin in another hand.~\
Nota the same Thomas shalbe bounden by rec[ognis-
ance] to provyde a new canapie of sarcenett or
satten of bridges on thisside the furst of Aug[ust]
the commyssyoners certyfycate of Beddfordshyre
beyng serched the xixth daye of June annis ijdo
et iipo itt apperyth that liiijs viijd for the broken
chalyce the cope of taffyta and latten was paid
to the commyssyoners handds by the said Thomas
Strynger and is chareged within the summe of
cccviijli iiijd for the churchegoodes of Beddforde-
shyre
[On another sheet. .]
After ower hertye comendacions | Forasmuche as we
are credeblely informed that you onyustelye reteygne in
youre handes certeyn churche goodes somtyme belongyng
to the parysshe churche of Mepersale in the countye of
Bedd[ford] Thise shalbe therfor to requyre you : And on
the Kynge and the Qwenes maiestyes behalffe streytlye to
commaunde you by the vertue of there Highnes commyssyon
to us dyrected that you personallye appere byfore us att
Westm[inster] in the late Augmentacon courte the fyrste
daye of the nexte Trynytee terme : to make answere to
suche poyntes and artycles as then shalbe obiected ageynst
you consernynge the sayd goodes Fayle you nott hereof
att youre perylle
From Westminster] the xvjth of Maye 1556
Yor lovynge Frendes
William Berners. Tho : Mildmay. John Wyseman
[Endorsed]
To Thomas Strynger of Mepersale in the countye of
Bedd[ford] yoman be this delyvered
[On another sheet."]
The declaration of Thomas Strynger of Mepersale within
the countie of Bedf[ord] yoman of for and concernynge hys
dyscharge of any churche gooddes supposed to be by hym
defrauded contrarye &c
BEDFORDSHIRE CHURCH GOODS. 19
Inprimis the seid Thomas sayethe that aboughte a vjt or
vijt yeares past that he the seid Thomas and one Gowther
Parker yoman of the same towne nowe decessyd were then
churchewardens of the seid churche of Mepersall and at
suche tyme and when they were commaunded by the kynges
commyssyoners at that tyme appoynted to cum before them
and to brynge with them a lawfull inventory of all suche
churche gooddes and stockes of money as then were belongynge
unto the churche of the seid parrysshe wherof they then as
churche wardens was charged with all where uppon the seid
churche wardens amonge other many churche wardens of other
parrysshes dyd not only appeare at Luton but also at Clyfton
and at the seid towne of Clyfton then dyd delyver unto one
Sir Michaell Fyssher knyght and other then commyssyoners
appoynted one certen inventory of all the churche gooddes
at that tyme belongynge the same churche of Mepersale
aforeseid yn the which inventory were conteyned were1
conteyned l all thes parcelles followynge that ys to saye one
chales with a patent a blacke velvett cope with a vestment to
the same belongynge a redde saten cope and a whyte vest-
ment to the same with certeyn awbes and aulter clothes the
number of the wiche certenly are not yn ther knowledge and
also v belles and also expressed yn the seid inventory at the
same tyme that the churche was ledded and the chauncell
tyled and as for the seid stocke of money above specyfyed
to his remembraunce he sayethe dothe amounte unto xxx* or
xls or there aboughtes which was delyvered by the seid
churche wardens unto the Ordenary longe before the
makynge of the seid inventory And farder the seid Thomas
sayethe that after the seid inventory presented and before
any gooddes delyvered by the vertewe of the same inventory
that the seid Gowther Parker and the seid Thomas Strynger
uppon ther accomptes makynge were dyscharged and one
John Strynger and Harry Meade then newly ellected and
chosen churchwardens &c After which election and aboughte
a iij yeres past they were commaunded amonge other to
appeare before newe commyssyoners then for the ornament of
the churche appoynted for to appeare before them at Bedford]
with all the ornamentes before specyfyed within the seid
inventory at which tyme the seid churchwardens then beynge
2O MARIAN DOCUMENTS RELATING TO
dyd make delyvere accordyngly as all other churchewardens
were compelled to do the lyke and the same And this the
seid Thomas Strynger sayethe and more yn the premisses he
cannot say trustynge that yt ys suffycyent for his declaration.
And forasmyche as yt ys to be supposed that one John
Leventhorpe the elder gent of Mepersale aforeseid shold be
the one of the procurers of this byll ayenst hym he sayethe
he must nedes utter thynges ayenst the seid Levernthorpe
that he wolde not gladly have don excepte commaundement
had compelled to do therunto of for and concernynge the
ymbeaselynge of certeyn gooddes which neyver were put into
the intoventory and all by the lett and doynge of the seid
Leventhorpe which parcelles so ymbeaceled by the seid
Leventhorpe be as after followethe.
Inprimis he had a saunce bell hangynge yn the belfrey
and converted the same to his owne use and neyver payd
one peny therfore and by estymacon worthe to be sold
iiij markes or there aboughtes [vs.] l
Item he had yn lyke manner a whyte satten cope braunched
and a vestment to the same worthe vli to be boughte and
payd therfore never a peny [xxs.]
Item he had ij other vestmentes one of Lyons blewe and
whyte and the other of redde satten pryce to be sold xl« or
there aboughtes. [xxs.]
And farder sayethe that when he and an other ioyned with
hym as churche wardens made awaye yn his tyme so beynge
made away a gate howse to his owne commoditie only
worthe vijs or viijs And also consumed the stocke of a iiij
markes or there aboughtes of redy money and never wold
accompt unto the parrysshe for any peny therof nor never
at this day for any thynge that the parysshe could do and also
kepe the churche boke from them for that yntent wherby
the parrysshe ys hyndered for other thynges for the profett
of the same, [xlvjs viijd]
Summa2 iiijli xjs viijd2 Ixxjs viijd
And for asmyche farder as the nolle trewthe shall appeare
the seid Thomas declarethe farder what thynges have ben
don by the nolle consent of the parrysshe at and before the
JThe prices in square brackets have been added in the margin.
2 — 2 Erased.
BEDFORDSHIRE CHURCH GOODS. 21
makynge of the fyrst inventory that ys to say they dyd sell
one olde broken chales pryce [erased^ and there made to the use
of the same parrysshe churche iiijli of redy money and parte of
the seid money bestowed afterwardes by consent and advyse
of the ordynary for the relyeffe of the poore of the parrysshe
and the reparacons of the churche And at the delyvere of
the churche gooddes the commyssyoners dyd cast the seid
parrysshe yn arrerages for the seid churche gooddes iijli
savynge viijd | which money was payd owte of hand before
the retorne of the commyssyoneres and what shyftes the seid
parrysshe by ther holle consentes dyd make for the helpe of
themselfes for the repayment ayen of that money that was
payd the seid Thomas Strynger do remytt that unto the
reporte of the hoolle parrysshe and nothynge was don yn the
premisses but only the seid Leventhorpe beynge [erased]
was made pryvye ther unto and so an ende And more
the seid Strynger sayethe not for this tyme nor more cannot
saye otherwyse than the holle parrysshe do knowe than the
holle parrysshe do knowe [sii\.
[Endorsed]
Leventhorppe
[On another sheet. ,]
After moost hertye commendacions this shalbe to sygnyfye
unto yoe all that where lately yoe dyrected yor lettres yn
all yor thre names unto a neyghbor of myne one Thomas
Strynger of Mepersale within the shyere of Bedt[ord] yoman
wyllynge hym and also on the Kynge and the Quenes behalfe
straytly do commaunde hym to appeare before yoe personally
at Westmr yn the late Augmentacion Courte the fyrst daye
of Trynytie terme to make answer to suche poyntes and
artycles as then shalbe abiected ayenst hym concernynge
the churche gooddes and this yor doynge as yt shold seme
to be by vertewe of ther hyghnes commyssyon as by yor
lettres date the xvith of Maij more playnlye apperethe
Pleasethe yoe all to understonde that the procurers of this
byll be not neyther fryndes nor lovers unto the seid
Stryn[ger] but only that that they do yf yt were for the
zeale of justyce orelles for any goodde wyll that they beare
towardes the furnyture of ther churche they were worthey
sum prayse as I do knowe the qualytyes of thos persons re
be to the contrary and that that they do they do yt of pout
22 MARIAN DOCUMENTS RELATING TO
malyce and that wyll sumwhat appeare by the delyvere of
yor lettres for they never delyvered them untyll Weddyns-
day last next before the daye of apparaunce and yet they be
all of one towne dwellynge And forasmyche as my
neyghbor ys an olde man and not used to jorney and that
also I unworthely amonge other of the worshypfull as I
suppose are yn lyke commyssyon within owr shyre of
Bedt[ord] of and for the churche gooddes and other thynges
I have called the seid partie before me and have declared
the contentes of yor lettres before hym and uppon dewe ex-
amynation therin had before me and other of the commys-
syon have taken his answer concernynge the premisses yn
wrytynge to the yntent to take suche order eyther by yoe or
by us accordynge as occasion shall serve uppon the seid
answer wiche answer at my cummynge upp within a day or
twoo yn the begynnynge of this terme I shall shewe unto
yoe all trustynge yn the meane tyme that yoe wyll not
be offended for hys non apparance Thus byddynge yoe all
moost hertely fare well from Alrychesey the iijde of June by
yor assuryd at all tymes to commaunde
J. Th. Hemyng
[Endorsed]
Churche goodes perteynyng to the parishe of Mepersale in
com Bedd[ford]
Informasion agenst Stringer
To the Ryghte Worshipfull William Berners Thomas
Myldmay and John Wyseman Esquyers and to every of
them at London be this d[elivere]d.
[The following are all on one sheet of paper. ~\
Ex. K. R. Ch. Goods £f
[Luton.]
William Perott of Luton and others of the same parisshe
for a paxe of silver with a pece of mother of perle p'oz —
v oz di. A pixe of silver and gylte with a doble glasse p'oz —
xxiij oz di. ij challesses with there pattentes doble gylte p'oz
— xlv oz solde by Edward Crawley John Punter sometyme
churchewardens there by the concent of the parisshe as is
affermed
BEDFORDSHIRE CHURCH GOODS. 23
(right margin)
xviij mercij 1555
A paxe and a pixe and ij challesses of silver
(left margin)
xmo mercij a° 1555 William Perot apperinge hath affirmed
upon his oth that he ys not the partie alledgyng that this
Perot ys ded and therfor processe sent by Perott to John
Crawley executor to Edward Crawley
(right margin)
John Crawley executor of the said Edward Crawley
appering hath brought forth an accompte of his said Testator
and therof it apperyth that he chargith hymself to the
churche with xvli for the said percelles whiche was ymployed
aboute the new makynge of an ile of the churche and he
hath the fyrst of the term to bringe the seid xvli yf he can
gett it of the parysshe
(bottom of sheet)
John Crawley for the parcelles above remembrid — xvli
wherof allowed to the said Crawley for repairing of the Ile
of the churche of Luton aforsaid by the discresiones of the
comissioners viijli vjs viijd and yt ys due — vjli xiijs iiijd whiche
somme ys allowed by the said commissioners with this con-
dicon that the said Crawley shall provyde and buye orna-
mentes for the said par[ish] churche of Luton as doth amounte
to the said somme of vjli xiijs iiijd whiche John Gwynneth
vicare there in the presence of the bysshoppe of Ely hath
undertaken shalbe don by midsomer next
(left margin)
Md The xijth of June anno ijdo et tercio the said John
Gwynneth hathe certyfyed the said commyssioners by his
lettre that the said Crawley hathe bought certeyn orna-
mentes for the churche of Luton to the valewe of vjli xiijs
iiijd or above
24 MARIAN DOCUMENTS RELATING TO
[Stretley.]
John Carter of Stretley clarke and others of the same
parisshe for the price of a great belle solde by Rychard
Norton and John Norton churchewardens there by the
concent of the parisshe as is affirmed for the some of xli
(right margin)
Wherofr they have bestowed upon the leadynge of the
churche — iiijli and so remayneth— vjli to be paid the xvth
of Maye next whiche said summe of vjli ys paid to Nicholas
Brighame one of the Tellers of thexchequyre Termino
pasche AO iido et iijc° per p[resentem] v . . . tallium
primo pasche vz — xijmo die maii anno ijdo et iip0 penes
Thomam Morton, gent, and therupon the obligacon was
discharged].
(left margin)
xxij Aprilis 1555 Thomas Norton of All Hallows apperyde
for the hole paryshe
[Houghton Conquest]
The parcelles appeare within
Johan Conqueste of Houghton Conquest in the seid
countie widdowe executrix of the testament of Edmond
Conquest Esquier deceassed for the price of ij challesses of
silver one coate of crymysen velvet called Jhus cope one
payer of organs one sute of vestment of white damaske one
cope of blewe velvet one crymysen velvet cote with juelles
called or ladyes coate one belle clapper one Oh wayght of
leade and xllib waxe of the seid churche goodes taken
awaye by Edmond Conquest her late husbond
(left margin)
viijvo Febre a° 1556 For asmoche as John Nudegate
gent appering before the commyss[ioners] the same daye and
yere bringing with hym a testimoniall from the most
substanciall of thole parish and John Holstok parson of
Houghton who upon theyr othes have deposed before the
seid commissioners] that sundrie parcelles of plate and
ornamentes to the value of xxxijli vjs viijd and by the seid
BEDFORDSHIRE CHURCH GOODS. 2C
Johane Conquest delivered to thuse of the seid parish
churche of Hough ton in recompense of the seid parcelles of
plate ornamentes &c taken by her seid husbond Ed[mond]
Conquest as aforeseid and therefor here discharged
(right margin)
Appering by John Nudegate gent the xvij of Marche hath
day to make aunswere for the seid gentlewoman or to pay
for the goodes as they shalbe valued the furst day of the
Easter terme nexte.
[Willington]
Thomas Verney of Willington Esquier husbond unto
Anne late wyfe of William Gostwick Esquier late brother
to Sir John Gostwick deceassed and executrix of the testa-
ment of William Gostwick her late husbond for the price
of a crosse of silver and gylte and one payer of crewettes
of silver solde for xviijli and a cope of clothe of golde with
vestment deacon and subdeacon worth by estimacion xxK one
challes p'oz — -xvj oz. A sute of vestmentes of white damaske
price liijs iiijd whiche parcelles the commissioners thinke
that the vicar of Willington didde present of malice
(right margin)
xl!i xiijs iiijd in money and xvjoz plate
This ys discharged per certificate from Mr Barone Luke and
others.
(left margin)
The seid Verney bying fallen sycke ot an agewe as Mr.
Secretary Perse hath certefyed hath daye to aunswer the
fyrst of the next terme.
[On the verso of the same.]
Com. Bedf[ord].
{all guylte — Diiijxx xv oz \ d[elivere]d to Sir
parcell gylte — Dcciiijxx xij oz f Fraunces Jobson
one little purse with xxij litle ( Master of the Juel-
buttons of silver ) house
Ornamentes of clothe of golde and tissewe — xiiij peces
d[elivere]d to Arthure Stourton Esquier
Redy money — CCCviij1' iiijs delyvered to Sir Edmond
Peckham Knight
26 MARIAN DOCUMENTS RELATING TO
[Dunstable.]
Robert Merick John Davye James Tydye and William
Thorppe of Dunstable for the price of a crosse of silver
parcell gylte solde by Richard Burton and Edmond
Carpenter sometyme churchewardens of the same towne and
omytted oute of theire inventorye of Dunstable
(right margin)
j crosse of silver parcell guylte
The parties appering the xviijth of Marche doo confesse
upon theyr othes the sale of the seid crosse to be made in
anno 1 54 1 and the money therof commyng bestowed upon
their church.
[Harlington]
John Spicer alias Elder and Richard Mathewe of Harling-
ton in the seid countie for the price of a challice of silver
p'oz. xij oz — Ixiijs iiijd and for a payer of orgaynes xls solde
by Richard Hawkins and John Nayshe churchewardens
there by the concent of the parisshe as hit is affirmed
(right margin)
xviiju° Marcii
ciijs iiijd
The said parties appering do saye upon their othes that
the said orgaunes remayne in the churche furnyshed and
therfor here allowed — xls and for Ixiijs iiijd they be orderyd
to paye it whiche ys paid to Nicholas Brighame as appereth
by the bill remayning
[Toddington.]
John Holbeche George Ref and Robert Markham of
Todington in the seid countie for a silver crosse gylte one
pyxe of silver gylte a litle sylver dishe, sencers of silver and
one challes of silver the value whereof they knowe not
solde by the seid John Holbeche and one William Reynold
churchewardens there by the concent of the parisshe as is
affirmed
(right margin)
i crosse a pixe a litle dishe sencers and a challes of silver
BEDFORDSHIRE CHURCH GOODS. 27
(left margin)
» Marcij 1555 The parties appering have deposed
that the said goodes were sold xiij yeres past and con-
verted to thuse of the churche as dyd appere by accompt
therof shewed and by cause the said parcells were omyted
out of the inventorys taken in Kynge E[d ward's], dayes they
are discharged
[On a separate sheet]
[Luton.]
To the Worshipfull William Earners Thomas Mildmaye
and John Wyseman Esquyres the Kynges and Quenes
maiestes comissioners
This bill made the x*h day of June in the second and
third yeres of the reignes of our souerainge lorde and ladye
King Phillipp and Queue Mary ys to certefye your wor-
shipps that for the accomplishment of the order taken with
John Crawley one of thexecutours of Edwarde Crawley
sometyme churchewardeyn of the parishe church of Luton
in the countye of Bedford for the bestowing of vjli xiijs iiijd
uppon some necessary ornamentes for the saide churche
There is bestowed by the saide Crawley uppon a cope and a
vestment of blew velvett with that belongeth unto them
fyve poundes There is also layed oute and bestowed uppon a
chalys twenty nobles and odd money And this is doon at
the charge ; and request l of the saide Crawley
per me Johannem Gwyneth
vicarium ibidem.
1 — l Struck out.
[On a separate slip attached]
[Houghton Conquest]
Com. Bedf[ord].
in money Ixs
ij chalyces viijil
a cope of blewe velwett xls
a sute of white damaske xl»
a payer of organs iiij^
ower ladyes cote xxvjs viijd
a nother cote xxvjs viijd
a belle clapper xiijs iiijd
xl li waxe xxvjs viijd
in redye money iiijs xd.
xxxijli xviijs ijd
inde
allocanasprorepar'
ecclesie
28 MARION DOCUMENTS RELATING TO
\0n another paper attached to the same.~\
Houghton
Reparacions don by Johan Conquest widowe uppon
Houghton churche by the commaundement and assent of the
parrochiners there in recompence and satisfaccion of all
soche goodes and ornamentes as her late husband Edmond
Conquest decessed had owt ot the churche of Houghton
aforsaid
Fyrst to Stephen Wylson a tyler for all soche worke about
the churche as apperteyned to his occupacon — xlv» xjd
To Thomas Welles a carpenter for that apperteyned to
his occupacon xxs
Item to one Pottie a paynter for scryptureng and other
paynting of the churche which the parrysshe was then com-
maunded to doe by hym that was then busshoppe — l vj li1
Item paid for Red leade for the same l vjs viijd l
Item for lyme1 xijs viijd1
Item for a booke of sarvice vs iiijd
Item for a byble when the parrysshe werre commaunded to
have one in the churche x xxiiijs l
Item for two other bookes and two salters xijs
Item to Wyllyam Burgon for working about the churche
xijd
Summa1 xijH vijs vijd * iiijli iijs xid
Item the sayd Johan Conquest hathe for further recom-
pence given unto the churche since anno primo of the
Queues maiestie theis percelles following
Fyrst one challice or sylver the churche beyng robbed and
not one lefte in ytt of the valewe of yli
Item a vestement of grene velvet with all that belongethe
thereunto valewed at xl«
Item one very fay re coope of whyte dammaske poudred
with spred egles of gold and bordred round about with
clothe of bawdkyn valewed at xli
Item one other fayre coope of crymsen velvet also
powdred with flowers of golde valewed at xli
Item two greate standing candlestickes iijli vjs viijd
Item a fronte of red braunched dammaske xls
Summa xxxijli vjs viijd
Summa totalis xliiijli xiiij8 iijd
1 — l Struck out.
BEDFORDSHIRE CHURCH GOODS. 2<)
(Ex. K. R. Ch. Goods Bdle., 14, formerly L. R. Ch. Goods Bdle. 1392,
File 4 no. I.)
[Sandy.]
After commendacons unto your worships the kinge and
the quene majesties comyssioners, theshalbe to asserteyn you
for answere accordynge to the tenor of your letter directid
to us the inhabitauntes of the towne and paryshe of Sandeye
in the county of Bedf [ord] for ij belles the one wayeng xc. iqr.
and ixlb. of bell mettell and the other wayeng vijc. xlvijlb. of
bell mettell which said ij belles were lefte in the churche
yarde of Sandey by the commaundement of Mr. Robert
Burgoyn decessid then beynge one of the kynge majesties
audytors who had all the doynge of the exchaynge of the
said ij belles and then charged that no persone shulde medle
with the same belles untill he sent for theym and said that he
wold discharge us of them at all tymes so that we were not
charged with the said belles and so shortly after the dethe of
the said Mr. Burgoyn, Dame Elizabethe Litton, late wiff of
the same Maister Burgoyn, late wiff of Sir Robert Litton,
Knyght, also decessyd, and now wyff unto Mr. Thwynno
commaunded and caused one Michaell Hodgskyn of
Brodwater in the parishe of Nebborthe in the county of
Hertf [ord], then beynge bayly unto the said dame Elizabeth
Litton to fett the said ij belles from Sandey aforesaid with
his cart unto Nebborthe aforesaid where as the same Lady
Litton then dwelled. And the said Michaell Hodgskyn
saythe shortly after the said Lady Litton caused the same ij
belles to be carryed to London towardes the payment of the
dettes of her said late husband Mr. Burgoyn. And this the
said Michaell Hodgskyn who his a lyve at this present will
witnes and testifie this before whome so ever he shal be
callid ; for serteyn of us the said inhabytaunces of Sandey
were with the said Michaell Hodgskyn of late to have the
trowght theryn who lyke an honest man declayred no lesse
unto us then is before sayde, and thus we the said inhaby-
tauntes of Sanday, who have subscrybed our handes here
under writton in the name of all the inhabitauntes of the
towne and parishe of Sandey aforesaid, have as well adver-
tised your worships, by whom the same ij belles were taken
away as also by whate auctorytie, and further we cannot say
D
3O MARIAN DOCUMENTS RELATING TO
as knowith God who have your worships in his tuystion ;
from Sandey this xijth of Octobre 1556.
By yours to commaunde
Thomas Cater Roger Aldryche
Wyllyam Francke William Adropere
Tomas Cater Thomas Wonderwode
Jhon Bronsoll Thomas Springe
Thomas Brittyn Rafe Bronsoll
Thomas Goswell
Wylliam Carter.
John Bronsoll
[Several of these appear to sign with marks]
[Endorsed]
To the Right worshipfull Mr. Thomas Myldmay and
others the kinge and queue majesties commyssioners in
the paryshe of Saynt Thomas the Apostle in London geve
these etc.
[In another hand]
From Sandy.
From the towne of Sandye in the countie of Bedf [ord]
concernyng the accompt of Sir George Gyffard.
(Ex. K. R. Ch. Goods Bdle. 14, formerly L. R. Ch. Goods Bdle. 1392,
File 3 no. I.)
[Willington.]
After our humble comendaciones unto you. Where in the
certificate by your L[ordship] and other comessioners in the
tyme of our late soverayne Lorde kynge Edwarde the vjth
concernynge churche goodes, hit apperith that Thomas
Verney of Willington in the countie of Bedf [ord], Esquyre,
who maryed the wyff of William Gostwyke, Esquyre, late
brother to Sir John Gostewyke her late husbond, ys to
aunswere for a crosse of sylver gilte, one payre of cruettes of
sylver, solde for xviijli. and a cope of cloth of golde with
vestment deacon and subdeacon worth by estimacon xxli. one
chalice poz. xvj oz., a suyte of vestmentes of white damask
prece liijs. iiijd. for the whiche the same Thomas Verney was
called before us by vertue of comission to us in that parte
addressed, and forasmoche as he hath alledgyd by his coun-
cell that the said plate and ornamentes were not ap-
BEDFORDSHIRE CHURCH GOODS. 3!
perteynynge to the churche of Willington, nor were not at
any tyme taken or knowen to be the goodes of the said
churche, but were the goodes of Sir John Gostewyke, Knyght,
and were many tymes by his comaundement brought from
the dwellinge howsse of the said Sir John Gostwyke to the
churche of Willington aforsaid tyme of the devyne service
ther and accustomably usyd to be recaryed to the said howsse,
and that also they do alledge they never were bequethed nor
geven to the said churche by the said Sir John Gostwyke,
and were presented onely of malice by the late vicare ther,
whiche partely ys touched in your certificate. Hit maye
lyke you callinge the said Mr. Verney before you, the
vycare and certen of the parisshioners of Willington afor-
said, to examyne the troth of this matter, and theropon to
signifye us by youre lettres to the ende that we maye further
procede in their maiesties service to us commytted, as therby
we maye take order with the said Mr. Verney or any other
whom the same shall concerne. And so lokynge for the
reatourne of your aunswere herin in the begynnynge of the
last of Julie next we take our leave of you. From West-
minster the viijt}l of May, 1556.
Yours assurdly,
William Berners, Thomas Mildmay, John Wyseman.
The names of the precenters of the goodes, plate and
juelles of the parish of Willington aforeseid, John Gostwik,
gent, Robert Osmond, John Cowper, John Smalle, late
vicar, concernyng the premisses, and certified under the
handes of the commissioners in the countie of Bedf [ord], viz.
Sir John Seint John, Knight, John Gascoigne K[night]
Urian Brereton, Knight, Nicholas Luke, Essquier, John
Seint John, Essquier, Lewez Dyve, Ro. Snowe, and John
Colbek.
[Endorsed.]
To the right honerable the Lorde Mordaunt, Sir John
St. John, Knyght, Nicholas Luke, Esquyre, one of the
Barones of the Kynge & Quenes Maiesties Exchequyer,
Lewes Dyve, Esquyre, to three or ij of them goven.
32 MARIAN DOCUMENTS RELATING TO
(File 3 no. 2.)
Right wourshipfull pleaseth yt you to be advertysed that
according to the tenour of your letter unto us directed, we
have taken the sayenges of souche persons as we thought
had mooste knolege in the matter wherunto they have sette
theyr handes, whyche we have sente you herein inclosed wyth
the same letter, and for so mouche as we can perseave yt was
done but on malyce. Thus we byd you mooste hertelie
fare well.
Nycholas Luke,
Lewyes Dyve.
[Endorsed.]
To the right wourshipfull Mr. Berners and other the
kynges and queues majesties commyssyoneres thys be
d[elivere]d.
File 3, no. 3.)
Sir John Smalle preste vycer of Kempston and late vycer
of Wyllyng[ton] in the countie of Bedf [ord] sayeth apon hys
honesty and fydelyte that he never knew or ded kno any
maner of gyfte of the cross of sylver and gylte, the crewtes,
chalys or the westmentes and suyte of cloth of golde and
damaske to the chyrche of Wyllyngton aforesayde, but
sayeth that the seyd ornamentes where used in the seyd
chyrche on hye dayes, and where brougth from the house of
Wylliam Gostwyke, and so caryed home ayein when, services
whas done, and further sayeth that the presentment wych he
consented unto whas onlye apon the presentment of John
Gostwycke, John Myten and Thomas Myten, he seyd
presyley that theyr whas a gyfte made by Sir John
Gostwycke and seyd theyr whas an invertorye theyrof made
but of hys knolege he knew none for that whas before he
whas vyker theyr and that he sayeth to be the trewth.
By me Syr Jho. Small,
Nycholas Luke,
Lewyes Dyve.
Robert Osmond of Wyllyngton one of the seyd presenters
sayeth on hys fydelyte that he never saw the foresayde
ornamentes nor no parte of them, nor never knew of any
gyfte or invetorye of the same, but sayeth that presentment
wych he joyned wyth the others whas only apon the sayeng
BEDFORDSHIRE CHURCH GOODS. 33
of John Gostwycke and Thomas Myten, for he sayeth he
whas but a servant wyth John Myten in Sir John Gostwyk
tyme in the seyd towne and this he wylle abyde bye at all
tymes.
Nycholas Luke,
Lewyes Dyve.
John Couper of the seyd towne of Wyllyngton and one
of the seyd presenters sayeth on hys honesty in all thyngs
savying he have sene them caryed in the chyrche and so
caryed into the house of Sir John Gostwycke as Robert
Osmond afore hathe sayde that he wylle stonde unto.
Jhon Cowper.
Nycholas Luke,
Lewyes Dyve.
Sir William Wardd alias Biddenham, clerke, of the ayge
of Ixxviij yeares or therabowte, sworn and examyned, that
he kepinge the cure ther a year and a half in Sir John
Goswikes tyme, and chapleyne ther in the house for the
space of xvj years, deposethe that as touchinge the cooppe,
vestment deacon and subdeacon, of clothe of gold, the
swett of vestmentes of whight damaske, specyfied and
mentioned in the same presentment, he or his propre
knowledg never knewe none suche ther duringe all his abide
ther, and as to the crosse of silver and gillt ennameled, a
payr of cruettes of silver, a chalece of sylver and parcell
gillt, he deposethe that the same wer the proper goodes of the
same Sir John Gostwike, and were brought to the churche
upon hieth festivall days : and at night caried home again to
the manner house as the propre goodes of the same Sir John,
also he wold lend certein of theim to certein other townes
wher he was lord of, and brought home againe to his house
at night. And also the said Sir John never in his 1 iff tyme
did geve, sell, nor bequethe, neyther the said crosse, cruettes
nor chalice of silver, nor any of theim to the churche of
Wellington aforsaid, nor to the churchwardens ther, to the
use of the said churche, by wordd, wyll, nor wry tinge, for he
saithe he was with the same Sir John untyll he dyed.
And farther he deposythe that throwght the craftines of
one William Nyxe ther, beinge parisshe clerke, and after
34 MARIAN DOCUMENTS RELATING TO
him one John Dawes, beinge also parisshe clerke, ther wer
certain vestmentes or ornamentes enbeseled to the value of
iiijor powndes or ther abowtes, wherupon the said Sir John
comawnded a inventory to be made, that if in case any of
theim at any tyme after wer lakinge, that the clerk for the
tyme beinge and the churchwardons also, shuld be always
answerable to the said Sir John Gostwik for the same. And
that in confirmation of this present deposition the said Sir
William Wardd hathe here unto subscribed his name withe
his owne propre hand.
by me William Wardd, clerk,
Nycholas Luke,
Lewyes Dyve.
Thomas Leigh of Caldewell in the countie of Bedd[ford]
esquier, of the age of xl yeres or there aboute, sworne and
examyned, deposeth, That from the xxixth yere of the raigne
of Kynge Henrye the Eight untill the daie of the dethe of
Sir John Gostwike, he was for the most parte resiaunt and
abidyng with the said Sir John Gostwik, and as to the crosse of
silver gylt, a paire of crewettes of silver, and the chalice of
silver and parcell gylt, mentioned in a presentment to him
redde, he deposeth and saieth that the same were the mere
propre gooddes of Sir John Gostwik, and never at any tyme
by the life of the saide Sir John by him geven nor bequethed,
nether to the churche of Wellington, nor yet to the churche-
wardeyns there, nor to any other persone or persones there, to
the use of the saide churche as he dothe very certeinlye know.
But he saieth that the saide Sir John meny tymes of a devoute
christien mynde wold commaunde and assigne the saide
crosse, cruettes and chalice to be caried, used, and occupied
to and in the churche of Willington on holydaies and
solemp feastes, and that at night they were brought home to
his owne howse there and alwaies remaigned in the charge
and custodye of his servaunt as parcell of his mere propre
goddes and plate. And also he further saieth as to the cope,
vestement, decon and subdeacon, of clothe of golde, and the
suite of vestementes of white damaske mentioned and
specefied in the saide presentment, that during all the saide
tyme of his abode with the saide Sir John he never knew
nor saw any suche in the custodye or possession of the saide
BEDFORDSHIRE CHURCH GOODS. 35
Sir John. And that in confirmation of this present deposicion
the said Thomas Leigh hathe herunto subscribed his name
with his owne propre hande
per me Thomam Leigh, manu propria.
Nicholas Luke, Lewyes Dyve.
William Denn of Bletsoo in the county of Bedford, yoman,
of the agge of fyfty yeares, somtymes servaunt to Sir John
Gostwik deceased, sworn and examyned, deposeth that as
touchinge the coppe, vestment, deacon and subdeacon, of
clothe of golld, worthe xxli or above, the swett of vestmentes
of whight damaske, price iiij°r markes, specified and men-
tioned in the said presentment, he of his propre notice, cer-
teinly knowethe that the said Sir John Gostwik hadd none
suche in his possession duringe the space of viij yeares
befor his dethe, and as to the crosse of syllver and gyllt
enameled, a payre of cruettes of sillver, a chalece of syllver
and parsell gillt, he deposeth e, that the same Sir John Gost-
wik hadd of his own propre goodes, and sometymes the said
Sir John wolld commawnd the same at hiethe festivall days to
be browght to the churche, and ther to be sett on the nieth
aulter, and used and occupied to the better adorninge and
decoratinge of the churche, to the greter honor and glory of
God. And at every suche tyme he wolld have the same
crosse, cruettes, and chalice brought home in to his howse
of Willington at or before night of the same day and the
same were keppt in the custody of him, that had the rest of
his platte and wer accompted of all men as his own propre
goodes and platte. And also that the said Sir John never
in his liff tyme did gev, sell, nor bequethe, neither the said
crosse, cruettes nor chalice of sillver, nor any of theim to the
church of Willington aforsaid, nor to the churchwardens
ther to the use of the said churche by word, wyll, nor
wryting, for he saythe he was withe and abowte the same Sir
John untyll he dyed, and that in confirmation of this
present depotition the said William Denn hathe herunto
subscribed his name with his owne propre hand.
Wylliam Denn.
Nycholas Luke. Lewys Dyve.
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William Fayry of Willington in the county of Bedford,
yoman, ot the agge of fifty yeares or ther aboute, and
howshold servaunte withe Sir John Gostwike for the space
of xiiij yeares, and after parisshinoner in the same towne xiiij
yeares, sworn and examyned, deposethe that as toching the
coppe, vestment, decon and subdecon, of clothe of gold, the
swet of vestmentes of whight damask specifyd and men-
tioned in the same presentment, he of his propre notice never
knew none suche ther all the said space, and as to the crosse
of sillver and gillt enameled, a payre of cruettes of silver, a
chalice of silver and parsell gillt, he deposethe, that thei were
the proper goodes of the said Sir John Gostwik, and som-
tymes the said Sir John wold lend theim to the churche
upon festivall days, and ther to be used and occupyed, and at
night brought home againe to the manor howse, farther he
saythe that in all the said space, he never hard that the said
Sir John did gyve, sell, nor bequethe, neither the said crosse,
cruettes, nor chalice of sillver, nor any of theim to the
churche of Willington aforsaid, nor to the churchwordens
ther to the use of the said churche, by word, wyll, nor
wrytinge, for he hathe continewed in the same towne, the
space of xxviij yeares. Also the said William saithe that
one John Dawes, somtyme being clerk ther and William
Sangle, churchwardens, lost certein vestmentes wherupon Sir
John Gostwik commawdid a inventory to be mad that the
clerk for the tyme beinge and the churchwardens for the
tyme beinge shulld be accomptable at all tymes for the same.
And that in confirmation of this present depotition the said
William Fayry have sett to his hand.
Nycholas Luke.
Lewyes Dyve.
Thomas Smallwodd of Willington in the County of Bed-
ford] yoman, beinge of the agge of xl yeares or therabowte
dewllinge and abidinge in Willington for the space [of] xxx
yeares, sworn and examyned, that as touchinge the coppe of
vestment, deacon and subdecon of clothe of gold, the swet of
vestmentes of whight damask specyfied and mentioned in
the same presentment, he of his propre notice never knewe
none suche ther duringe all the said tyme, and as to the
crosse of silver and gillt enameled, a payre of cruettes of
BEDFORDSHIRE CHURCH GOODS. 37
sillver, a chalice of silver and parcell gyllt, he deposethe, that
thei wer at all tymes the goodes and plat of Sir John Gost-
wike, and at all tymes remayninge in the manore howse
sawinge upon certein festivall days, hit was brought to the
churche and ther occupyed and used, and at night brought
home againe to the manor howse againe, and that Sir John
Gostwike in all his lif tyme did nether geve, sell, nor be-
quethe the said crosse, cruettes, or chalice of silver nor any
of theim to the churche of Willington aforsaid, nor to the
churchwardens ther, to the use of the said churche, by wordd
wyll, nor wrytynge. And that in confirmation of this
present depotision, the said Thomas hathe herunto sett to
his hand.
Nycholas Luke.
Lewyes Dyve.
Henry Fissher of Rouhall in the county of Bedford,
yoman, beinge of the agge of xlix yeares or ther abowte,
somtymes servaunt to Sir John Gostwike, knight, decessed,
sworn and examyned, deposythe that as touchinge the coppe,
vestment, deacon and subdeacon, of clothe of gold, the swett
of vestmentes of whight damaske, specifyed and mentioned
in the sayd presentmente, he of his propre notice never
knewe none suche ther during the space of xviij yeares, for
so longe he hathe ben servaunt, and always resyaunt in the
howse of Willington. And as to the crosse of sillver and
gyllt enameled, a payre of cruettes of sillver, a chalice of
silver and parcell gillt, he deposythe that the same Sir John
Gostwike hadd of his ouwn propre goodes, and somtymes
the said Sir John wold commawnd the same at hiethe festy-
vall days to be brought to the churche and ther to be sett
upon the hieth allter, and used and occupyed to the better
adorninge and decoratinge of the said churche, and at every
suche tyme he wold have the same crosse, cruettes and
chalice, brought home in to his howse of Willington at or
befor night of the same day, and the same were keppte in
the custody of him that hadd the rest of his platte, and
wer accompted of all men as his owne propre goodes and
platte. Allso that the said Sir John never in his lif did geve,
sell, nor bequethe, neyther the said crosse, cruettes nor
chalice of silver, nor to the churche, nor to the church-
E
38 MARIAN DOCUMENTS RELATING TO
wardons ther, to the use of the said churche, by wordd,
will, nor wrytinge, for he saythe he was with and abowte
the same Sir John untyll he dyed. And that in confirmation
of this present depotision the said Henry Fissher hathe her-
unto subscribed his name with his owne propre hand.
Harry Fysser.
Nycholas Luke.
Lewyes Dyve.
William Bingham of Willington in the countie of Bed-
ford, yoman, beinge of the agge of liij yeares or ther abowte,
and clerke of the same parisshe for the space of xj yeares or
ther abowte, sworn and examyned, that as touchinge the
coppe of cloth of gold, vestment, deacon and subdeacon, of
clothe of gold, the swet of whight vestmentes of whight
damaske, price iiijor markes, he is very certein and sure that
ther was none suche duringe all the sayd space of xj yeares,
and as to the crosse of sylver and gillt enamelyd, a payre of
cruettes of silver, a chalice of silver and parsell gillt, he de-
posethe that thei wer at all tymes remayninge in the howse,
and somtyme brought upon festivall days to the church
and ther occupyed to the settinge forthe of Codes service,
and at night brought home againe to the manore howse, and
that hit was never accompted ne taken as none of the
churchis of Willington ne none of the parisshe at any tyme
mad cleim therof untyll now of late. And that in confirma-
tion of this present depotision the said William hathe sub-
scribed his name withe his .owne hand.
Wylliam Byngam.
Nycholas Luke. Lewyes Dyve.
John Croker of Willington in the county of Bedford,
servingman, of the agge of forty years or ther abowte, com-
mynge to service to Willington howse immediately after the
deathe of Sir John Gostwik, and ther hathe contynued for
che space of xj years, sworn and examyned, that as touchinge
the coppe, vestmente, deacon and subdeacon, ot clothe of
gold, the swett of vestmentes of whight damaske, he cer-
teinly knoweth that at suche tyme as Mr. William Gostwik,
esquier, did entre upon the howse and goodes of Sir John
BEDFORDSHIRE CHURCH GOODS. 39
Gostwike, that ther was no suche ther, for he was ther
presente at the delyvery of the same. And as touchinge the
crosse of sylver and gyllt enameled, a payre of cruettes of
sylver, a chalice of sylver and parcell gillt, he deposethe that
the said William Gostwike hadd theim allways in his howse
as his owne propre goodes, and somtyme at hiethe festivall
days wold command theim to be brought to the churche,
ether by one of his servauntes or elles by the clerk, and ther
to be occupyed and used to the better maytennces of Codes
service, and to the bewtifyinge of the churche, and at night
thei were all brought home againe unto the manor howse at
or before night of the same day, for he saythe that he hathe
delivered theim and receved theim dyvers and sondry tymes
to the churche and from the churche, and that in all the
said space of xj yeares, was never accompted as any of the
churchis nether never none of the parisshe made any claime
unto theim, untill nowe of late, one John Gostwik with
other of a malitius and devlisshe mynd intendynge to put
the said Sir Thomas Verney and the Lady Anne his wif to
treble, did cawse this same presentment to be made and sett
forthe, as it is evidently knowen bothe in the towne and
also in the cowntrey, notwithstandynge the said John Gost-
wike did set forthe a contrary presentment, and was sworn
himself to the same befor Fraunces Pigotte, esquier, Edward
Peke, George Ackworthe, and John Colbecke, gent., com-
missioners. And that in confirmation of this present de-
potition the said John hathe subscribed his name with his
owne propre hand.
Per me Johannem Croker.
Nycholas Luke.
Lewyes Dyve.
[Endorsed]
For the plate and ornamentes in Willington in
Com[County] Bedf[ord] parcell of Mr. Greyes Accompt.
4-O MARIAN DOCUMENTS RELATING TO
APPENDIX I.
[Woburn Abbey]
Woburn Pryorye
The inventory of the goodes and chattalles of the seid
pryorye made the day of August in the xxviij" yere
of the reign of or sovereign lord kyng Henry the viii
ORNAMENTES OF THE CHIRCH
First a crosse of cooper and gylt . with 1 a lytyll * image of
Cryst beyng sylver hangyng upon the same crosse1 iijs
iiijd1
Item upon the high alter ij lynyn alter clothes upon the
alter and on steyned alter cloth hangyng before the high
alter viijd.
Item ij laten candelstykes stondyng before the high alter
US-
Item one old writen masse boke and a litill prynted
masboke ij li
Item in the vestry . a coope a vestment complete very
olde with deacon and subdeacon complete all of whight
damask . of old wrkyng callyd dubbyll damask vjs
viijd
Item an old coope a vestment complete with deacon and
subdeacon complete all of blak for messe of requiem ijl.
Item an old coope of grene sylk with white fustyan orfras
xijd
Item a nother old coope of sylk with orffras of blak and
sterres in yt viijd
Item a white vestment of fustyan for lent viijd
Item a nother white vestment with a crucyfyx upon it
— xxd
Item ij old chesybilles for vestmentes without albys
viijd
Item a lytyll coffer with a crosse in it coveryed with
plates of sylver and sett with cristalles and other stonys
wherin ys a pece of the holy crosse and iiij other lytyll
BEDFORDSHIRE CHURCH GOODS. 4!
crosses plated with sylver and stones in them and other
relykes . 'of small value preysid at iijs iiijd1
In the Chapell of or Lady a lynnen alter cloth upon the
alter and a steyned cloth before the alter iiijd
Item in the quere oon antyphoner beside other old bokes
— ijd
[The remainder of the inventory deals with hall, kitchen,
the contents of the brewhouse, etc.]
APPENDIX II.
RETURN OF DEFACED PLATE FROM BEDFORDSHIRE DE-
LIVERED INTO THE JEWEL HOUSE BETWEEN IST JUNE,
1553, AND 4TH FEBRUARY, 1554.
(Ex. K. R. Church Goods, V).
Cou[n]tie Bedforde.
Brought into the Juelhouse by Nicholas Luke Barren of
the Exchequers Lewis Davye and Richard Snowe Com-
missioners there in plate mh iiijc iiijxx of undefacid
Being defacid Remayne.
In guilte V iiij" xv ozl . i;je .-„ y.. m
In parcel! guilt vij° mj3" xij ozj
iWast iiijxx xiij oz1
Receavid more of the same Nycholas Lewke and other a
litill putse embrawderid and garnishid with small buttons of
silver and guilt having in it six old grottes.
In Margin.
42
APPENDIX II.
Abbat, Nicholas -
Ackworthe, George
Alcoke, Thomas -
Aldryche, Roger -
Alyson, William -
Andropere, William
Andrew, William
Barlee, Edmonde
Bercoke, James -
Berners, William -
Bett, Reynolde -
Biddenham, William
Bingham, William
Bolton, William -
Bonker, see Bunker
Bonyon, Robert -
Bounyon, see Bonyon
Braye, John, Lord
Brereton, Uryan -
Brett, John -
Brighan, Nicholas
Brittyn, Thomas -
Bronsoll, John
„ Thomas
„ Rafe -
Browgh, Roger -
Bunker, William -
Burgoyn, Robert -
„ William
Burt, John -
Burton, Thomas -
„ Richard -
Butler, Thomas -
Butterfyld, Thomas
Byrde, Thomas -
Cater, Thomas
Carpenter, Edmund
Carter, John
„ Thomas -
„ William -
Cock, Richard -
Colbeck, John
Conqueste, Edmund
„ Johan
Cowper, John
-
- 6
-
- 39
-
II, 12
-
- 3°
-
- 3
_
- 30
- 8
-
2
-
II
- 1 8 et seq.
-
- 15
_
- 33
- 38
- 16
-
- 9
-
ix
-
ix
-
2
-
- 26
-
- 30
-
- 3°
-
- 3°
-
- 3°
_
- 7
- 8.
:
- 29
- 28
-
2
;
- 26
-
- 7
_
- 6
m
- 30
- 26
-
- 24
-
- 9
_
- 30
- 16
-
3i, 39
24,
25, 28
-
3*i 33 1
Crawley, Edward 22, 23, 27
„ John - - 23, 27
Croker, John - - 38, 39
Davye, John - - - 26
Dawes, John - - - 34
Daye, Leonard - - 17
Denn, William - - - 35
Dyve, Lewis - ix, 32 et seq .
Dyxe, Rowland - - 10
Ebbes, William - - - i
Edwardes, John 4
Exell, William i
Fayry, William - - 36
Fissher, Henry - - 37, 38
Frances, John - - 10
Franche, William - - 30
Fyelde, Henry I
„ Nicholas - - - I
Fyssher, John - - 1 5
„ Sir Michael - 19
Gascoigne, John, Kt. - -31
Colston, Thomas - 16
Gostwick, Sir John xx, 25, 30,
et seq.
„ William 25,30^^.
Goswell, Thomas - 30
Graye, Sir Henry - 17
Grome, Thomas 9
Gryggory, Ambrose - - 2
Gwynneth, John - - 23, 27
Gyffard, Sir George - 30
Helder, Ath 3
„ John - - - 3
Harreson, Robert - 13
Hawkyns, Richard - 3, 26
Hemyng, J. Th. - - xx, 22
Hodgskyn, Michael - 29
Holbeche, John - - - 26
Holstok, John - - - 24
Innit, Michael i
Isatt, Nicholas (see also Yssott) 1 2
Jobson, Sir Francis - 25
Jonson, Thomas - - - 2
Leigh, Thomas - - 34, 35
Leventhorpe, John - 20 et seq.
43
Litton, Elizabeth, Lady
„ Robert
Lordisman, William, -
Low, Robert
Lowynge, Symon
Lyntone, Patrick -
Luke, Nicholas - -25
Markham, Robert
Mathew, John
Mathew, Henry -
Mathew, Richard
Meade, Harry
Merick, Robert -
Mildmay, Thomas 18,
Money, William -
Mordaunt, the Lord -
Morton, Thomas
Myten, John
„ Thomas -
Nasshe, John
Northampton, William,
quess of -
Norton, John
„ Richard -
Nudegate, John -
Nyxe William
Odell, John -
Odell, Thomas
Osmond, Robert -
Parker, Gowther -
Parsons, Edmonde
Peckham, Sir Edmund
Pedder, Matthew
Peke, Edward -
Pendley, John
Perrott, William -
Perse, Mr. Secretary -
Pigotte, Fraunces
Pollens, William -
Pottie, - - - -
Poweres, John
Punter, John
„ Richard -
Purrear, William
Ref, George - - -
Reynold, William
- 29
Rolf, William - -
- 17
- 29
Saunsam, George
- 16
- 15
Scott, William
12
- 9
Seynt John, John
ix, 31
- 8
Shepeherd, Michell
- 5
- 8
Slingesbye, Robert
15, 16
et seq.
Slowgh, John
2
- 26
Smalle, John
3», 32
- 6
Smallwodd, Thomas -
- 36
- 6
Snowe, Richard -
ix, 41
3> 26
Spencer Randoll -
- 5
- ^9
Springe, Thomas -
- 30
- 26
Spycer, John
3. 26
27» 31
Stott, William
ii
- 16
Stourton, Arthur,
- 25
- 3'
Straunge, William
- 4
- 24
Stringer, Thomas xix,
1 7 et seq.
32, 33
Strynger, John
- 19
- 32
„ Thomas
- '9
3> 26
Sugar, John -
n» H
Mar-
Syare, Richard
- 6
ix
Sylkes William
- i3
24
Thorpe, William -
- 26
- 24
Thvvynno -
- 29
24, 25
Townes, George -
- 7
- 33
Trapnell, John
i
- 7
Tydye, James
- 26
- 7
Tynggay, John -
II, 12
3i» 32
„ Thomas
- I I
- 19
Verney, Lady Anne -
- 39
IO
Verney, Thomas - 25,
30 et seq.
- 25
Vincent, William
i
- 4
Wattes, Henry
- 10
- 39
Wardd, William -
33, 34
- 9
Wede, William - -
- IS
22, 23
Webbe, Richard -
- 4
- 25
Welles, Thomas -
- 28
- 39
Willys, Thomas -
- 4
- 6
Wilson, Stephen -
- 28
- 28
Whytbreade, Richard
2
- 15
Wonderwode, Thomas
- 30
22
Wyseman, John -
1 8 et seq.
- IO
Wysseman, Roger
• 15
*3> H
Wytt, Thomas
8
- 26
Yerle, Alexander -
- 16
- 26
Yssott, Nicholas -
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