liy Rev. Chr. Wordsworth, M.A. 261 



not fall under the suppression of 1536. (Miss Eose Graham's 

 S. Gilhert, pp. 174-5.) 



In July, 1536, the officials of the Court of Augmentation for 

 Wilts (Sir H. Longe, Eic. Poulet, Esq., J. Pye, and W. Berners), 

 reported that " the governor of St. Margaret's is with the Master 

 of th' ordre [of St. Gilbert] at London." Overlooked I'estimonies 

 to the English Monasteries, Dublin Eeview, April, 1894, p. 274. 

 Cited by Miss Graham, p. 176. The governor or prior of St. 

 Gilbert's at that time was Eoger Marshall, and the Master of 

 Sempringham Order was Eobert Holgate.^ When Holgate became 

 Bishop of Llandaff (March, 1537), Eoger Marshall, was advanced 

 to the head house in Lincoln, and was succeeded at Marlborough 

 by John Sympson for the two years until the surrender, 16th 

 January, 1539. 



On 17th January, 1539, W. Petre, one of the Wilts commissioners 

 for suppression of the religious houses, wrote to Cromwell that 

 they had taken possession of "Marleborough Pal ton and Bradstock." 

 {S. P. Bom., xiv (i.) 75.) In fact the surrender had been signed 

 and dated on January 16th, Cromwell's own name, and those- of 

 J. Tregonwell, W. Petre, and J. Smyth, as commissioners, having 

 perhaps, been already attached to the document for pensions to 

 facilitate the business of securing the Gilbertine Canons' signatures. 

 These were : — 



J. Sympson, prior, to whom was assigned £10 per annum. 



E. Sparke, 



J. Eodley, 



rr, ,Tr 1, T yCanons, pensioned at 53s. 4fZ. each. 



T. Welboure, and | ^ 



J. Tangette, 



' Robert Holgate, Abp. of York, was deprived by Q. Mary on the ground 

 that he had married in 1549. He was imprisoned in the Tower, 4th Oct., 

 1553, but, on paying a fine, he was released by K. Philip's desire, in January, 

 1555. He died 15th November, 1555, at the Master of Sempringham's Head 

 House, or London residence, at Chick Lane, called " High Hall " in St. John's 

 Court, Cow Lane, in the parish of St. Sepulchre's, London, near Smithfield 

 Horsepool and the elms where the gallows stood. {Gf. Miss Graham's 

 S. Gilhert, 92, 198 — 9). Writings belonging to the London House were 

 formerly in the hands of Sir H. Fetherstone, Bart. (Maitland's London, 

 1739, p.:503.) 



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