THE CHURCH AND VILLAGE OF MONYASH. 9 



that a preste shulde daylye celebrate masse & other dyvyne 

 service in the Chappell of Moniasshe in the Hygh Peke, for 

 their souls etc, & to ministre all sacraments & sacramentalls to 

 the townes & hamletts of Monyashe, Flagge, Hordlowe & 

 Onasshe, which be distaunte from the parisshe churche iiij or 

 V myles, lxvi^ vij"^. clere cviji besydes ij^ vj in rente 

 resolute, & for a yerely obite. Mych. Bredwell Chauntrye 

 priste. It is distaunt from the parisshe church iiij. myles so 

 that in winter season & other tempestuous wethers the said 

 hamletts cannot be ser\'ed withowte the sayd Chappell. It 

 hath a mancyon howse or cotage prised at iij^ iiij'i, by yere. 

 Stock xxxix^. vij*^-" 



To the eternal disgrace of Henry VIII. and of the council of 

 his boy successor Edward VI., the property of this chantry, 

 like hundreds of others throughout England, was confiscated 

 in the first year of the latter reign, without applying the plunder 

 to any decent purpose. It is quite idle to urge that any pious 

 motive of trying to suppress an alleged superstition in pra)-ers 

 for the dead was the motive cause. The very Crown Com- 

 missioners pointed out that the chantry priest was essential to 

 the due administration of religion in this extensive wild district. 

 It would have been quite simple to forbid masses for the 

 departed and yet retain a small income to support a resident 

 minister, but the court and courtiers had set their mind on 

 plunder and would not be gainsaid. So the property, given 

 to the church Just two centuries before, was seized by the 

 CrowTi. Michael Bredwell, the dismissed chantrj' priest, was 

 granted, as was shown in last year's Journal, a pension of 

 £^ 13s. 4d. 



The position of parochial chaplain at Monyash was in no 



(Note continued from p. 8) : — 

 lands in Magna Lynford and Thornburgh, co. Bucks., was made by 

 Sir Lawrence de Lynford to William de Lynford and John de Stafford, 

 his kinsman. This is dated 38 Edward III. All these lands devolved 

 on John Stafford, of Eyam, armiger, the son of Dionysia, on the death 

 of her nephew, Thomas Lynford, 28 Oct., 1423. The original of the 

 above deed and of other Lynford and Stafford charters have descended 

 through the Staffords and Bradshaws to me, and are still in my possession. — 

 Editor. 



