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Street, adjoining to what is called Friars Lane. It would appear to have been in 

 a reduced state, for the act of resignation is signed by a prior and only three 

 friars." " Memorandum— We the Prior and Convent of the Austen Fryers, with 

 one assent and consente, without any coaccyon or consell do gyve ower house into 

 the hands of the lord Vysytor to the Kynges use, desyeryng hys grace to be goode 

 and graycous to us. In wyttenes, we subscrybe ower namys with ower proper 

 hande thys xxiiijth daye of August, the xxxth yere of the rayne of ower dred 

 soveren lorde Kynge Henry VllJth, — 



Per me Egidium Pycurnge Augustinencium de Ludlow. 



Per me fratrem Johannam Pratt. 



Per me fratrem Willilmum Higges. 



Per me fratrem Christoferum Hogeson. 



By hus the bayllyfiEes of Ludlow. 



William Yevans and Thomas Whelar. " 



The following inventory of the furniture is a proof that this house was not 

 very rich : — 



"The Austen Fryers of Ludlowe delyvered to Wyllyam Yevans and 

 Thomas Whelar balys ther. 



The Sextry. 

 Item — A chesabuU and ij tenacles of golde with ij albes. 

 — A syngyll Vestement of blacke worstede. 

 — A syngyll Vestement of blewe damaske. 

 — ij olde copys. 



— A cope of sylke with starres. 

 — A fayer cofer. 

 A chesabul and a tenacle of olde blacke velvet. 



The quere. 

 Item — ij olde auter clothes. 



— A holy water stope, laten. 



— A deske of tymber. 



— vj auter clothes steyneyd, olde. 



The quere new stalleyd. 



ij fayer belles and lytyll bell in the steepull. " 



" The halle, buttere, and keychn — 



Item — A lytyll tabull and ij trustelles, a forme, and ij olde cupbordes. 

 — A pan and a kettell. 

 — A lytyll brass pott. 

 — iij pewter plateres, olde. 

 — A lytyll broche. 

 — A fayer gret cupborde. 

 — A gret trowe. 

 — A tabull and ij formya. 

 — Fayre lavarea of tyune. 

 Memorandum, — A boxeful of evydens. 



