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this John Tregonwell mentioned in a similar manner, the 

 hope was clelusive, for he soon appears as one of the tyrant's 

 agents in the suppression of the House. The annuity, 

 therefore, was of course ordered by the Court of Augmen- 

 tation to be paid, together with arrears, on the lOth of 

 February, 1540.* 



Five days subsequcntly, 15th of December, 1538, they 

 granted to William Glastok, out of their special regard for 

 him, an annuity, charged upon their manor of Wyllonde, of 

 forty shUlings, with power to distrain. The Court of Aug- 

 mentation continued the annuity with the arrears, by an 

 Order dated the 12th of February, 1540.t 



It will be perceived that these details are derived from 

 the Enrolments of Orders and Decrees in the Exchequer, 

 where the grounds of each petition are severally stated as 

 above. It is only too certain, however, that these Orders 

 were but little regarded. The government grew weary of 

 the constantly recurring paymcnts, and endeavoured to rid 

 itself of a bürden which it had soon no funds to liquidate. 



I may here add, in completion of the subject, that the 

 same Court of Augmentation ordered divers sums to be 

 paid to the Dean and Chapter of Wells, the Chancellor of 

 Wells, and the Archdeacons of Wells and Taunton, under 

 the yarious heads of pensions, synodals, &c.;J and that on 

 the 28th of May, 1543, it granted to Matthew Whytlyng, 

 Chantry Priest of Donyatte, (see pp. 37, 45, and 90) a 

 decree for the continuance of his annual pension of £3 

 6s. 8d.|| 



Page 102, Iine 24, add He consecrated the Church and 



* Enrolments, vol. iv., f. 199b. 

 t Enrolments, vol. iv., f. 4b. 

 t Enrolments, vol. iv., f. 9b. ; vol. v., f. clxxxüib.; vol. x., f. cccliiii ; vol. 

 XIV., f. clviii b. 



II Enrolments, vol. xrv. f. xxxxv b. 



