66 BURTON ABBEY DISSOLUTION INVENTORIES. 
defiled the dwelling place of Thy name even to the 
ground.” The Burton Inventories have additional claim to 
attention, as they give the names of the purchasers of the 
sacrilegious spoils of Holy things. That popular feeling 
was certainly not in favour of this wholesale spoliation of 
the religious houses is very evident from the instructions to 
the Commissioners for parish churches, and from the fact 
of bringing strangers to do the work: one entry itself 
showing that a paid guide had to be procured in this 
neighbourhood. ‘A guyde from Repton to Grace Diewe 
xe.” 
The 2nd Inventory made Decr. 4th, in the 38th year of 
King Henry VIII’s reign shows what was delivered over to 
the King and not sold at Burton. While the 3rd Inventory 
made in the 6th year of King Edward VI’s reign, shows 
what was left to the Parish Church, of that which was given to 
it under the 1st Inventory. 
It is a sad sad tale King Henry VIII. first makes the 
Monastery into a collegiate church; then more money is 
wanted; and the Dean has to surrender to the Kimg, who 
is said to have intended to devote the revenue to education, 
but, no doubt, like so many of that King’s good intentions, 
it made only another paving stone for that place which is 
said to be paved with good intentions. 
‘* Burton-on-Trent (Aug. Off. Books 400 p. 62.) 
An inventorye takyn the xxj day ef November in the 
Xxxvij yere of the reigne of our sovereygne lord Kyng 
Henry the viijth. &c. by Richard Goodricke and John 
Scudamore, Esquyers appoyntyd by the Ryght worshypfull 
Sir Edward North Knyght Chancellor of the Kynges 
Maiesties most honorable Court of Augmentations of all 
the juells, plate, ornaments of the churche with all the 
gooddes and chattells belongyng and apperteynyng unto the 
late Colledge of Burton upon Trent, surrendered and prisyd 
by Walter Charnell (and others). 
