16 Amesbury Church. Reasons for thinking that it 
It then gives the “ Bells remaining in the steeple there, 4, Poise 
[or weight ] by estimation 14 hundred weight,” and other particulars. 
Canon Jackson then prints a series of extracts from documents 
at Longleat, relating to the demolitions, which he has numbered ° 
1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, and these appear to be perfectly consistent with 
the two already noticed. 
No. 1 is the earliest of these Longleat documents, and appears 
to be the second, in order of time, of all the documents under notice. 
It refers to “the content of the lead upon the late monastery of 
Ambrusburie viewed by Christopher Dreye and George Hinde, 
plumbers, at the commandment of Thomas Cumine the King’s 
Sergeant Plumber,” 22nd September, the 32 year of Henry VIII. 
(1540). 
The condemned buildingstherefore, were still standing, at that date. 
This gives the extent and estimated weight of the lead roofs over | 
the high altar and choir, of the steeple, the south aisle, the north 
aisle, the body of the Church, the vestry, the Chapel of Our Lady, 
St. John’s Chapel, the cloister, the dorter (or dormitory), the 
Frater, the Jessye, the Hall, Kent’s chamber, the Abbess’s chamber, 
the old parlour, an entry from Hall to Kitchen with staircase, Joan 
Horner’s chamber, and the Leaden chambers. 
In this case, the words “ over the high altar and quire” seem to 
mean the eastern limb of the Church, and the “ bi of the 
Church ”’ is evidently the nave. 
Documents No. 2 and No. 4 seem to be evidently from the same 
original, and contain several repetitions. They consist of extracts 
from William Nottingham’s payments for costs and charges of 
trying, melting, casting, and weighing the lead, dated 31st March, 
32nd of Henry VIII. (1541). William Nottingham appears to 
have been acting as bailiff, under Mr. Berwick, the Earl’s steward, 
who was living at Easton, a dissolved Priory, near Pewsey, and 
who gave personal instructions about the demolition of the steeple. 
Nottingham accounts for the profits of the demains and parsonage 
of Amesbury, for a year and a half, ending at Lady Day, 1542, and 
therefore beginning at Michaelmas, 1540. 
Document No. 3 is a long extract, ranging through the whole 
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