By the Rev. Canon J. E. Jackson, F.S.A. 279 



The seneschals or stewards of the estates were (in 1534), for 

 Wilts, Henry Long, Kt., of Wraxal and Draycote, with a fee of 

 60*. : for Berks, Nicholas Willoughby, the same : for Oxfordshire, 

 John Briggs, Kt., 20*. a year. The auditors, Walter Seymour and 

 John Macks, or Marks, £2 3*. ^d. a year each. 



The Monastery was also charged, by bequests, with the perpetual 

 maintenance both of Obits and Chantries, for the following benefac- 

 tors : — Richard Penley, Kt., John Rous, Simon Best, Sir William 

 Culraer (formerly Rector of the House), Thomas Bulkington, and 

 Thomas Gereberd (probably of Odstock), John Waltham, Bishop of 

 Sarum (d. 1395), John Bleobury, a brother, and William Godwyn 

 (formerly Rector). The principal bequest for this purpose was J. 

 Bleobury's £8 a year. Also with Obits only, involving a trifling 

 expense, for Nicholas Broke, Nicholas Grey, William Fitzwarren, 

 John Amesbury, John Daunsey (a former lord of part of Bratton 

 manor) and two persons of the name of John Botham. The 

 total amount of outgoings was £100 2«. Br/., and the net revenue 

 £321 9*. M., i.e., about £3600 present money. The Monastery 

 seems to have farmed largely on its own account ; a large part of 

 Edyndon, all Coleshill and part of Tynhide, Baynton and Brattou 

 being returned as " in hand.'' 



1538. 30 Hen. VIII. Thomas, Lord Cromwell, K.G., Keeper 

 of the Privy Seal, presents Paul Bush to be Rector of the Monas- 

 tery.' This would be whilst it was in the King's hands ; between 

 the seizure and dissolution. 



Paul Bush was born in 1490. About 1530 he became a student 

 at Oxford, and five years after took the degree of B.A., being then. 

 Wood says, numbered among the celebrated poets of the University. 

 He then became a brother of the Order of Bonhommes, and after 

 studying among the friars of St. Austin (now Wadham College) 

 was elected Rector (Wood calls him " Provincial ") of his Order at 

 Edingdon, and Canon Residentiary of Sarum. Here he remained 

 (not many, as Wood says, but) two years : when the King being 

 informed of his great knowledge in divinity and physic made him 



» Wilts Institutions, II., p. 207. Rymer's Fcedera, XIV., 638. 



