THE RELIGIOUS PENSION ROLL OF DERBYSHIRE. 1 3 



that is to one more than those who had signed the surrender. 

 In the pension list they are specified (evidently one or two 

 aliases) as John Wood, Thomas Stringar, James Yonge, John 

 Asshby, Thomas Pratt, Thomas Webster, Robert Warde, 

 Thomas Bramicetoun, and Thomas Cordall.* 



Dale Abbey surrendered on 24th October, 1538. The 

 surrender was signed by John Bebe, abbot, Richard Wheytteley, 

 prior, and fifteen other canons, namely, John Cadmon, Richard 

 Hawston, Thomas Bargshaw, William Smyth, John Bank, 

 George Cokke, Ralph Harison, Robert Harvy, John Shemeld, 

 Robert Wylson, James Cheriholme, James Clutun, John Bate- 

 man, Robert Gerratt, and Roger Page.! On 30th October, 

 1538, the pension list was put forth, whereby ;(^26 13s. 4d. was 

 assigned to the abbot, £s 6s. 8d. to the prior and to five canons, 

 ^5 each to three canons, £2 i6s. 8d. to each of three canons, 

 £2 to two, and i6s. 6d. to one. 



The priory of St. James's, Derby, was but a cell of the great 

 Cluniac Abbey of Bermondsey. When Bermondsey was sup- 

 pressed a pension of £■] was assigned to the prior of St. James's, 

 but nothing apparently to the few monks who kept him company. 

 The royal meanness with regard to these pensions was almost 

 incredible, for the amounts were made subject to deductions 

 on account of all .subsidies granted to the Crown by Parliament. 

 A tenth part was withheld for that reason in the very first year 

 after the general dissolution. Two years later, a fourth part 

 was abstracted from the pensions "of all the late religious 

 persons having ;£2o and upward," and when the half-year was 

 due, on 25th March, 1543, the religious only received one 

 quarter of the annual payment. By these two methods Henry, 

 within a few years after granting the pensions, retained for 

 himself out of that very fund the sum of ^9^443 ^S^- 6d.t 



* Letters and Papers Henry VIII., xiii. (2), 839. 

 t Dep. Keeper's Report, viii., app. 2, 18. 



X Harleian MSS. 604, f. 108 ; Aug. Off. Treas. Roll, ii., 45-48- Cited by 

 Gasquet, ii., 465-6. 



