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Burton Abbey Dissolution Fnventories. 
By Henry A. Rye. 
Read befove the Society April 9th, 1896. 
1 February last I had the honour to read before your 
Society a paper on ‘“‘The Ground Plan of Burton 
Abbey.” Owing to its length I had to divide it, and post- 
pone these Inventories, which formed part of that paper, 
to a later date. 
I now introduce to you documents that treat of the 
fittings and furnishings of the Abbey and Church thereof, 
that will illustrate to you how goodly a home of prayer, 
praise, and good works, our town of Burton-on-Trent once 
contained. 
I have made copies of three Inventories. The first one, 
taken the 21st Day of November in the 37th year of King 
Henry VIII’s reign, as a contribution to the history of the 
dissolution of the Monasteries, that dark tale of Sacrilege 
and destruction: when Psalm LXXIV must have come 
home with a cruel force to the Dean and Canons as they 
sang for the last time in their loved choir—“ But now they 
break down all the carved work thereof with axes and 
hammers; they have set fire upon Thy Holy places, and 
