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upon Monday the xxv‘ day of October, ther and then to mete and receyve the 
said princesse after the maner folowing, that is to saie, my lord tresourer. ac- 
companyed with the Bishops of Bathe and Hereford, the abbots of Abindon and 
Redyng, my lord Dacre of the South, my lord Zouche, Sir Robert Poyntz, Sir 
Wm. Sandes, Sir John Seymor, Sir Christopher Wroughton, Sir John Brereton 
and Sir John Chok, to mete her iij or iiij myles befor she come to Ambresbury. 
And the said Duchess of Norfolk to receyve her after her offring in some con- 
venient place betwix that and her loging; at which tyme Wm. Hollybrand 
which shall awaite upon her, shall in the Spanyshe song, in the name of the 
said duchesse, welcome the said princesse with such wordes as be delyvered to 
him in writing, And that the said duchesse have warning therof, and the said 
Hollybrand, by my lord chamberlayn. 
Item that there be a chare redy at Ambresbury the same tyme for the said 
princesse to put her in the next day, or at any other tyme when it shall please 
her. 
Item the Wensday next folowing (3 Nov.) she shall disloge from Ambresbury 
and draw towards Andover and ther loge in the inn of Thaungell.” * 
The monastery and its precincts, including garden, orchards, 
fishponds, cemetery, &c., covered 12 acres of ground. No plan or 
view of the buildings appears to be in existence, and of their style 
or character nothing is known. In the beginning of King Edw. 
-IYV.’s. reign, about A.D. 1461, they had suffered by fire. This we 
learn incidentally from an old document called “A Wrytyng an- 
nexed to the will of Margaret Lady Hungerford and Botreaux ;” 
in which she recapitulates all the costs and expenses she had been 
put to by the troubles that befell her family in the Wars of the Roses. 
“Item, at such tyme as I was by the Chanceler of Ingland put in the Abbay 
of Amesbury, and ther kept by the Kyng’s comm’ndement, by fortune of fyre 
all my meoyable goods, that is to say, beddis of cloth of goolde, beddis of aras 
and of silke, hangyngis of aras for hallis and chambris, plate, monay, and other 
stuffe, to the value of a Thousand pounds and more, and the chief loggyng of 
the same place where I was in, cover’d with lede, by the said infortune was 
brent and pulled downe, of which the new bildyng and amendyng coste me 
£200: sum £1200.” 
The monastery was granted at the Dissolution (31 Henry VIII.) 
to Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford (afterwards the Protector 
Somerset): and with it so much of the estates as had been held in 
their own occupation by the nuns. This consisted of 290 selions 
of arable land called ‘Acres,’ lately cultivated by the Prioress, 
and valued at 4d. an acre per annum: feeding for 374 sheep in 
the common pasture of Ambresbury: a piece called the Park, 6 
* Letters and Papers illustrative of H. VII. Gairdner, vol. i., p. 407. 
