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and in many not even that ; witness the case of the Curwen family, 
who founded Shap, and were benefactors to Holm Cultram, 
Carlisle, Calder, and Furness, and who only benefited by receiving 
a portion of the spoils of Furness. Many of the lands were bought 
as in the case of Chaloner, who really purchased Guisborough, and 
no doubt obtained Saint Bees with the fruits of his father’s industry, 
and as an investment for his money, which the State (reduced to 
the utmost straits by the necessity of fortifying itself against foreign 
aggression, and torn by internal dissension) was very glad to receive; 
though I am quite willing to allow that the public affairs were ill 
and most wastefully managed. 
But what induced Chaloner to procure a grant of the manor, 
rectory, and cell of Saint Bees? First, there was the fact that 
certain possessions of Calder Abbey had been sold to Sir Thomas 
Leigh, on July 20th, 1546, for £243 55. od. and his wife was the 
widow of that rather well known individual. Secondly, I make no 
doubt that he was on good terms with Grindal, to whom not long 
afterwards he sold the rectory, for the latter held the tithes long 
previous to 1569; and may it not be that in scholarly talk with 
Lady Jane Grey, who married Northumberland’s son, Guildford, 
on May 25th, 1553, he had heard much said of the district which 
he had already heard spoken of by Henry Knyvett, whose wife 
was Lady of Moresby? I would not lay too great stress on these 
points, but the combination is curious; and that he was a deeply 
attached friend of that ‘‘admirable Crichton” of her sex, we know 
from his Latin Poem entitled, ““Deploratio Acerbe Necis Heroidis 
Prestantissime D. Janz Grayze Henrica Ducis Suffolchice filiz que 
securl percussa animo constantissimo mortem oppetiit.” One 
beautiful line I quote— 
“*Ore placens Veneris, Palladis arte placens.” 
On the 12th April, 1555, an agreement was made between Lady 
Chaloner and Thomas Leigh, her first husband’s nephew and male 
heir, wherein for the consideration of £1000, certain houses in 
Austin Friars, London, and the Priory of St. Oswald’s, which had 
been bought by her husband, were re-purchased from the male 
heir. The latter property subsequently fell to her daughter by her 
