14 Amesbury Church. Reasons for thinking that iu 
The document refers to the possessions: of other dissolved monas- 
teries, besides Amesbury, and contains an estimate of the value of 
the lead on the monastic buildings at Amesbury. There is the 
following memorandum :—“ The King’s Majesty must discharge 
the said Earl of all incumbrancies except leases, and except 8£ for 
the salary of a priest to serve the cure of Ambresbury, and 7°: 6, 
for synods and proxters,’”’ which Canon Jackson interprets to mean 
procurations, “to the Archdeacon of Salisbury.” The priest was 
apparently a perpetual curate, as in later times. There is also the 
following memorandum :—“ That one, for the said Earl, must be 
bounden in recognisances for,” amongst other things, “ the Burgage 
and the parsonage of Ambresbury, late parcel of the late Monastery 
of Ambresbury, &c.”’ This shows that the Earl had the lay 
Rectory. 
The document, which Canon Jackson quotes second, is from the 
Augmentation Office, and is printed, at length, by Sir Richard 
Hoare in his History of South Wilts, who says :—‘ by favour of 
Mr. Caley, I am enabled to add the surrender of this Monastery.” 
No date appears to be given, but it must, of course, be later than the 
4th December, 1539, the date of surrender, and probably earlier than 
the 22nd September, 1540, when the lead on the standing buildings 
was valued for the King. It appears to be the first, in order of 
time, of the documents quoted by Canon Jackson, who only gives 
a small part of it. 
This document contains the pensions, paid to the late inmates of 
the convent, and a schedule of ‘‘ Houses and buildings assigned to 
remain undefaced,” consisting of ‘“ the lodging called the Prioress’s 
lodging, viz., hall, buttery, pantry, kitchen, and gatehouse, as it ° 
is enclosed within one quadrant unto the convent kitchen: the long 
stable with the hay barn adjoining: the wheat barn, the baking 
~The Rectory is now and has long been in the hands of the Dean and 
Canons of Windsor. Mr. Ruddle informs me that he has ascertained, from 
the present Dean, that Amesbury Rectory was part of their ‘‘ New Dotation” 
(lst Edward VI.) and came to them, in lieu of property which Henry VIII. 
had taken from them. The Duke of Somerset took advowsons, &e., elsewhere, 
for what he gave up. It appears that there is an account of this in Ashmole’s 
Order of the Garter. 
