SIR WILLIAM CAVENDISH 1557- 85 



The heading of the account of Dale Abbey is as follows : — 



There after foloweth all suche pcells of implements or howsehold 

 stuflfe, come, cattell, ornamentes of the Churche and suche other like 

 founde within the late Mon : ther at the tyme of the dyssolucion of the 

 same house soulde liy the Kinges Commissiones to flfraunces Pole esquier 

 the xxiiij. day of October in the xxx. yere of our sovegne Lorde Kyng 

 Henry the VIII. 



Some of the stonework of Dale Abbey is now made up in a 

 terrace at Risley Hall. Some of the interior woodwork is at 

 Radbourne Church, taken there by Mr. Francis Pole. It is 

 supposed that the painted glass which was in the refectorj', or 

 as some think, in the cloisters, was bought by Sir Henry 

 Sacheverell and given by him to Morley Church, where it now 

 rests. 



Sir Wm. Cavendish received from Mr. Francis Pole the sum 

 of ^30 (about jQsoo in present value) for the movables at 

 Dale Abbey, as by the following certificate appears : — 



And Sir Wm. Cavendishe owes xxx. li by fFraunces Pole de Rodborne 

 in the Countie of Derby, Armiger a debt to his Majestie ye King by an 

 obligacione given 24 October in the xxx"" Regis predicti, to be paid 

 on the Feast of the Nativitie T540, as by an indenture and book more 

 clearly appears. 



There is extant a letter written from Lilleshall Abbey, i6th 

 October, 1538, by Thomas Legh, LL.D., one of the Com- 

 missioners, to Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex, who was the 

 moving spirit and the adviser of Henry VIII. in the destruction 

 of the monasteries. 



At the Blackladies (or Benedictine Xuns, of Brewood in Co. Stafford), 

 I received a letter from Mr. Heneage' containing the King's command 

 for the preferment of Mr. Thomas Gifford to the farm of the house of 

 Blackladies. There was Mr. Littleton also, who said the King was 

 jileased he should have it, as he perceived by your Lordship when last in 

 London. Wherefore I and Mr. Candisshe have put them both in pos- 

 session and sold the stuff to them both, till they know the King's further 

 pleasure. Now being at Lilleshill I intend to put Mr. Candishe in 

 possession of the farm of the house, who prays you that in his absence 

 he be not in this behalf supplanted. 



1 Ancestor of Lord Heneage. 



