By the Rev. W. Gilchrist Clark, M.A. 309 



of the payment by W. Sharington, the grantee, of £100, presumably 

 an earnest of the full sum of £783 odd due.^ The price paid in this 

 case seems to have been fair, though it is not easy to estimate this, 

 as the whole possessions of Lacock were not granted, and the grants 

 included part of the late possessions of Amesbury. 



The grantees of the various reKgious houses, and the dates of the 

 grants, are as follows : — 6th June, 1536, Monkton Farley and 

 Easton were granted to Sir Edward Seymour ; 29th June, 1537, 

 Stanley, to Sir Edward Baynton ; 28th July, 1537, Maiden Bradley, 

 to Sir Edward Seymour ; 10th or 12th March, 1538, Kingswood, 

 to Sir N. Poyntz ; in 31 Henry VIII., Longleat, to Sir J. 

 Horsey, who disposed of it next year to Sir John Thynne ; 20th 

 June, 1540, Kington St. Michael, to Sir R. Long ; July 16th, 

 1540, Lacock, to W. Sharington ; April 1541, Amesbury, to Earl 

 of Hertford ; 33 Henry YIIL, Edington, to Sir Thomas Seymour; 

 (3 Edward YI. to W. Paulet and Lord St. John) ; 35 Henry VIII., 

 Wilton, to Sir W. Herbert ; 36 Henry VIIL, Mahnesbury, to 

 W. Stumpe ; Poulton, to T. Stroude, "Walter Erie, and John Paget; 

 and Ivychurch, to J. Barwick ; 38 Henry VIIL, Bradenstoke, to 

 R. Pexall ; (?) Marlborough St. Margaret, to A. Stringer. 



APPENDIX A. 



Report on smaller Wiltshire houses, by Royal Commissioners, ap- 

 pointed 1st July, 28th Henry VIII. (R.O. Chantry Certificate 

 No. 100, m. 2.) 



Com. Wilts. 



[Commissioners:— Henry Longe, Knight; Eichard Poulet, Esq.; John Pye ; 

 and William Berners. Their appointment is dated 1st July, 28 Henry VIIL 



" Priori/ of Mayden Bradley. 

 " [A] A hedde house of chanons reguler of thorder of Seint Augustyne. 



(Foimer valuation) £180 10s. 4rf. ; (present valuation) £199 16*. 4rf. for 



the demaynes of the same. 

 " [B] (Religious) eight — viz., preests six and novesses two by reports of honeste 



» Becord Office, Court of Wards, Box 94, D. 9. 



