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By the Rev. J. E. Jackson. 71 
at the feast of the Nativyte of our lord then next cel. 
and at the next said Feast ecxlvii". ii. vii. 
M‘. the Kyngs Magestie must discharge the seid Erle of 
all incombraunces except leasses, and except viij". for the 
cellary (salary) of a priest to serve the Cure of Ambresbury, 
and vij’. vit. for synods and proxters (procurations) to the 
Archdeacon of Salisbury, 
M‘. that one for the seid Erle must be bounden in decophimnnes for the 
woods growyng in the woods of Shene appoynted to the seid Erle. And in 
the lands called Est grafton, West grafton Burbage, belonging to the late 
monastery or pryory of Saynt Margarett’s juxta Marleburgh : and in the lands 
called Baggeruge parcell of the possessyons of Saint Augustine juxta vill’ 
Bristoli, Littelleott, the manor of Eston parcell of the late monastery of 
Bradenstocke: And the Burgage and the parsonage of Ambresbury, late parcell 
of the late monastery of Ambresbury, And of Lullington, Backyngton, and 
Longeleate cum membris, parcell of the late monastery or pryory of Henton yn 
the Cowntie of Somerset. 
‘‘ Rychard Ryche.” 
That the Earl of Hertford, coming into possession of a vast 
range of monastic buildings, the tenants of which had been scatter- 
ed and the establishment finally extinguished by law, would desire 
to take down the larger part of the monastery itself, was perhaps to 
be expected. But that for the sake of the value of certain tons of 
lead, a fine church should have been stripped and spoliated of 
all that was not only upon it, but within it, must be pronounced 
to be an act of simple barbarism. That the Crown officers did so 
with respect to Amesbury Church, will be shown beyond doubt 
from the following papers. 
The first of them is preserved in the Augmentation Office: and 
has been already printed ‘in Sir R. C. Hoare’s History of S. Wilts. 
(Hundred of Ambresbury p. 67.) It is a paper of instructions as 
to the monastery and church, issuing of course from the Crown. 
“ Houses and buildings assigned to remayn undefaced. 
_ The lodging called the Priore’s Lodging, viz, halle, buttre, pantrye, kytchyn 
and gate-house, as it is enclosed within oon quadraunte unto the convent 
kytchyn: the longe stable with the hey barne adjoining: the whete barne, the 
baking house, and the gate with the gate-house in the base courte. 
Committed to the custodie of John Barwik, servaunte to the Erle of Hertford.* 
Deemed to be Superfiuous. 
The Church, Cloister, Frayter, Dormitory and Chaptre-house: the Convent 
Kytchen, with all the houses adjoyning to the same: thé old Infirmary, with 
the Chapell, Cloister, and lodgings adjoyning: the Sextery with houses joyning 
*See Wilts Arch. Magazine viii, 299. 
