82 Ambresbury Monastery. 
and others of Stapulford, and Thos. Noors of Bedywn» 
Leed delyvered to Robert Steward, sadler in London 5 tons, 5 lbs, 
Ditto to John Berenger of Hampton, marchant, 9 tons, 19 cwt. 26 lbs. 
The number of Sowys delyvered to Robert Eyre and Thomas Sembarbe mar- 
chaunts of Sarum, 162 tons, 6 cwt. and 6 lbs. 
Sold to Mathew Kington, Ludgersall, and John Monday, Buddesden, sheyt 
leed 3 cwt. and 11 Ib. at 3s. 4d. the ewt. 
Sold to Alexander Auckar, and Robert Peris, Church wardens of Nether- 
haven, vii clothes,* weighing 1 ton, of lead, at £4 the ton. 
Lead delyvered to Marchaunt of Hampton to be sent to Jersey for Gunshot 
28 June, 34 H. VIII., 30 ewt. 3 qrs. 11 lbs. 
Total number of Sowys of leede delyvered in all places, 637, containing 
209 tons, 17 cwt. 2 qrs. 18 lbs. 
Over and above John Howell plombmer layde a pon the Chaunsell of the 
Parish Church,+ and a pon the Gutter of the Newe Covent Kytchen 5 clothes, 
weighing 11 cwt. Sum total of Tons delyvered, 210 tons, 5 cwt. 2 qrs. 16 lbs. 
Lead reserved for my Lord, and returned: 21 tons, 3 cwt. 1 qr. 10 lbs. 
It does not appear that any such scene took place at Amesbury 
monastery church as had kindled Sir John Harington’s indignation 
elsewhere. Speaking of the spoliations at Wells cathedral, he says 
“Such was their thirst after lead (I would they had drunke it 
scalding) that they tooke the dead bodies of Bishops out of their 
leaden coffins, and cast abroad the carkases skarce throughly putri- 
fied.” [Nuge Antique, ii. 147.] The graves of the illustrious 
ladies abovementioned, and of all others buried in the church, 
have probably been undisturbed. 
- The Seymours made a dwelling house out of the old monastery, 
and the Protector’s son Edward Earl of Hertford resided here. 
His third wife was Frances daughter to Lord Howard of Bindon, 
widow of Henry Prannell citizen of London. Of this lady a very 
curious account is preserved,! and of a tragic incident in her history 
the scene lay at Amesbury. 
‘She was one of the greatest, both for birth and beauty, in her 
time: but at first she went a step backward, as it were, to fetch a 
career, to make her mount the higher. Her extraction was high, 
fit for her great mind: yet she descended so low as to marry one 
Prannell, a vintner’s son, in London, having a good estate, who 
* Does this mean sheets of lead? 
+That is, the*present chancel, which, as already stated, had probably been used for Parochial 
purposes during the time of the Monastery. See above, p. 72. 
1 By Arthur Wilson: printed in Brydges’s Peers of James I., p. 297. 

