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Henry VII. house: and his son was the 3rd Lord Brooke of that.... 
EPs Ly at sere ......name. And he had a son by his first if 
bec that son had 2 doaehters married to Daltery and Graville. He 
had by another wife sons and daughters. The sons towards young 
men died of the sweating sickness. The Lord Mountjoye now 
living’ married one of the Pollette daughters: (Pawlet) son and 
heire to the Lord St. John maried the other. 
One Aschue alias Aschgogh, Bishop of Saresbyri in Henry 6 
tyme, was beheddid in a rage of the Commons for asking a tax of 
money, as sum say, on an hill hard by Hedington; wher at this 
tyme is a chapelle and a hermitage. The body of him was buried 
in the house of Bonhoms at Hedington. This Aschue was a Master 
of Arts. [Itin. mz. 98]. 
From a certain Latin book of Edindon Monastery :— _ [Itin. v1., 
p- 48]. 
“3 July a.p. 1352: was laid the first stone of the Monastery 
of Edindon. 
1 William Ayscough Bishop of Salisbury, Clerk of the Privy Council, had been 
accused by the Commons of having been instrumental, together with the Duke 
of Suffolk and Lord Say, in delivering up the provinces of Maine and Anjou. 
The other two had already fallen victims to popular excitement. The Bishop’s 
enemies, taking advantage of the disturbed state of the country, attacked him in 
his palace at Salisbury. He fled for refuge to Edington Convent, was robbed on 
the way of 10,000 marks, and the next day was dragged by the mob, headed by 
a Salisbury brewer, from the High Altar at Edington Church whilst saying Mass, 
to the top of a neighbouring hill, where he was murdered, on the feast of St. Peter 
and St. Paul, 29th June, 1450. 
The beautiful tomb at Salisbury, which Gough calls Bp. Ayscough’s, and on 
which he supposes the action of the Bishop’s murder to be represented in relief, 
is of a style of architecture 200 years older than Ayscough’s time. There is an 
engraving of it, with a different account of the figures in relief, in Britton’s 
Salisbury Cathedral, p. 95: where it ‘is properly described as Bp. Bridport’s, but 
in the accompanying plate, by a misprint, is called Bp. Bingham’s. 
Of the chapel and hermitage mentioned by Leland as having been erected on 
the spot where Ayscough was murdered, nothing seems to be now known: Of 
the priory of Edington there is an engraving in Gent. Mag. 1846, p. 257. 
