MUCHELNEY ABBEY. 89 



Together vvith Richard Coscob, prior, John Montacute, and 

 eight others, he subscribed to the king's supremacy, July 2, 



1534, 26 Henry VIII, and afterwards to the surrender, 

 Jan. 3, 1538, 29 Henry VIII. Sacrilege and murder were 

 horribly rife ; and of those of the brethren whom it had been 

 thought proper to pension — the individuals, we may pre- 

 sume, who offered the least Opposition to the tyrant's 

 designs — only two are mentioned as continuing to survive 

 the outrage down to the second year of Queen Mary : 

 " Mochelney, nuper Monasterium. 



Annuit. Georg. More per annum lx 3 . Johannes Pluinber 

 per annum lx 9 ." 

 An impression of the seal of the Abbey is appended to 

 two documents still preserved in the Augmentation Office ; 

 and an outline of it is given in the last edition of Dugdale, 

 drawn and engraved by John Coney. The device consists of 

 two figures under canopies — one of them representing St. 

 Peter, crowned, and habited in a richly-ornamented cope, 

 with his right hand uplifted in the act of benediction, and 

 holding in his left the papal crossed staff ; the other repre- 

 senting St. Paul, with his usual insignia, a book and a 

 sword. On either side is an angel holding a shield — that 

 on the right charged with the keys and sword, that on the 

 left with a saltire. The legend is defective, but reads, as 

 much of it as is legible : — 



* * * * abbatis Ct Conüentuö * * 



* * * * ii 2E>e ^ucljrinep. 



So far as the ordinary history of the Abbey is concerned, 

 I might here come to a conclusion. I might, indeed, say 

 something of the subsequent possessors, and make them 

 teil us how they enjoyed the spoil, and what reason they 

 had to be satisfied with the perilous possession. This, 



