in the British Museum, there is a book with this title, "An abstract or brief noat taken out of "Mr. Nicholas Raie's Courte-Bookes and Courte"Rolles, the last of November, in the 24 yere of

(c) Dr. Nasmith has omitted this house in his collection; the clear sum, according to Stevens and Dr. Tanner's MSS. valuation, being only 1907. 2s. 6d. q. However, if we may depend on the accuracy of the Liber Regis, this was one of the raigne of our sovereigne ladye the quene's the greater monasteries. Besides these five houses, "majesty that now is, of all such mannors, lordeDegge, Watson, Gibson, and Burn, have St. Fri-shippes, landes, tenements, parsonages, quitdeswide's, Oxon, which was dissolved A. D. 1524. (d) Capgrave in vitâ S. Milburgæ, and Leland. Collect. vol. ii. p. 170. In aftertimes the legal style of this monastery was Wenlock Magna, or Moche Wenlock, as Plowd. 187, 188.

(e) Placed also in Worcestershire by Mr. Speed and valued by Dugdale and Speed, and in almost all the catalogues of the greater abbies, under both counties; and indeed it is in a part of Shropshire which is encompassed with Worcestershire.

(ƒ) After the attainder of the last abbot, a new survey was made of the possessions of this abbey, (printed by Mr. Hearn at the end of Langtoft's Chronicle, p. 343.) in which they are valued at the clear yearly sum of 40841, 6s. 8d. q. Nor does this latter survey seem to have been correct and full; for among the Harlcian MSS. No. 142,

"rents, pencyons, and suche others as was lefte out " of auditor Peps booke of survey, at suche time, "and when as he made and toke the survey of "the late dissolved abbey and monastery of Glas"ton, and as are to be had and come by for this "shorte tyme of warning. Anno Domini 1581." i. e. "An account of lands belonging to Glastonbury Abbey, and concealed from the crown; which so hapned, because these lands lay in the manors belonging to the lord abbat, but yet were separately held by divers officers of the abbey, who held their own courts upon them, and re. ceived the profits accruing from them.

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(g) i. e. Clitonum Insula, Jo. Wallingford. Nobilium Insula, Leland. Collect. vol. iii. p. 44. (4) Erroneously placed in Dorsetshire by the 'editors of the Monasticon.

(i) Henton is not in Wiltshire, as it is errone- the estates belonging to it, were sold by the abbot ously said to be in the Monasticon. And note, and convent two years before the act for dissolving Athelney and Montacute are omitted in Degge, the greater monasteries. Waison, Gibson, and Burn.

(k) In Degge, Watsoan, Gibson, and Burn, Croxden, a Cistertian bbey, is added, which had only 901. 5s. 11d. per ann. clear. But the lands of it have been adjudged to be tithe-free, because it was continued by K. Henry 8.

1) Not in Norfolk, as Mon. Angl vol. i. p. 886. and vol. iii. p. i. 32. This abbey, and all

(m) Ixworth is added in Degge, Watson, Gibson, and Burn, with Speed's mistaken valuation of 2801. 9s. 5d. whereas the whole sum was really no more than 2047. 9s. 5d. and the clear sum only 1687. 19s. 7d. ob. q. '

(1) These three in Sussex are omitted in Sir Simon Degge's catalogue,

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(s) This abbey was placed in Gloucestershire in the first edition of Tanner's Notitia Monastica, (w) Falsely placed by Speed in Buckingham. (as Mon. Ang. tom. i. p. 811. 1040. 1060.); shire.

It may not be amiss to subjoin to this catalogue of the religious houses, part of the instructions which were drawn up by the king's order, to ascertain the value of all the estates of the clergy, both secular and regular, for the purpose merely, as it was alleged, of securing the full payment of the tenths. But as Collier observes,

(1) Degge, Watson, Gibson, and Burn, have with Speed's valuation, though valued in Dugdale also Hull Chartreusehouse, Warter, and Old at 1887. 8s. only. And Stratflour or Strata FloMalton; whereas in Dugdale the first is valued at 1747. 18s. 3d. the second at 1431. 7s. 8d, and the third at 1977. 19s. 2d. They have also Rithal 3511. 14s. 6d. which is the total valuation of Ri. vaulx, before inserted with Dugdale's valuation. Val Crucis in Denbighshire is likewise put in

rida, in Cardiganshire, (probably from the figures not being distinctly placed in Speed), is made 12267. 6s. per ann. in Degge, Watson, Gibson, and Burn; whereas the sum total is no more than 122. 6s. 8d. and the clear sum only 1181. 7s. 3d.

Biblioth.

(Eccl. Hist. vol. ii. p. 95.)," these instructions had in all likeli"hood a farther reach the design seems to have been to draw "envy upon the spirituality from the greatness of the revenues. "It was to give the king an inviting prospect upon the abbies, to "awaken his fancy towards a dissolution, and solicit him to make prize of the church.”

"Instructions devised by the king's highness, by the advice of Cott. Cleop. his council, for knowledge to be had of the whole, true, and

E. 4. fol.

167.

These in

structions

issued in January 1534-5.

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just yearly values of all the possessions, manors, lands, tene"ments, hereditaments, and profits, as well spiritual as temporal, appertaining to any manner of dignity, monastery, priory, "church collegiate, church conventual, parsonage, vicarage, chancery, free chapel, or other dignity, office, or promotion, spiritual "within this realm, Wales, Calais, Berwick, and marches of the 66 same, as well in places exempt as not exempt, which his pleasure "is that such as shall have charge by his commission to survey the "same, shall effectually, with all uprightness and dexterity, fol"low and ensue, as they will answer to his majesty at their peril.”

101] The Contents of the Instructions may be understood from the last Article, which was thus:

"Item, Finally, after the true and just yearly value of all the

dignities, benefices, offices, cures, and other promotions spiritual, "afore rehears'd, examin'd, and known, then the said commis"sioners, to whom the commission shall be directed, shall cause to "be made a fair book after the auditor's fashion, putting first in "the head thereof the name of the archbishoprick or bishoprick "where the commission is directed, if the see be within the limits "of their commission; and the whole and entire value thereof "like as is afore-mentioned in the article concerning the same; "with the deductions to be resolute that are mentioned in the said "article, and none other. And then next to put the name of the "cathedral church or monastery, where the see of the arch

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bishoprick or bishoprick is, and the number and names of all "such dignities, prebends, offices, cures, chanteries, and promo"trons spiritual, which be in succession in the said cathedral church "or monastery and as well the whole and entire yearly value of "the said cathedral church or monastery, as the particular yearly "profit that belongs to every the said dignities, prebends, offices, "&c. with the deductions to be resolute out of the same, as is "mentioned in the article above specified concerning the same: "and then next after that, to put the number and name of every "archdeaconry and deanry rural, within the limits of their commission, and in whose diocese and jurisdiction they be; and "their several and particular yearly value and deductions, like ast

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