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disbursed, still remained available for the provision and 

 niaintenance of the House. 



In addition to the foregoing details the Valor furnishes 

 US with the names of several other incumbents at the 

 period of Its formation, 1535. 



William Bury was vicar of "Mawdeljn," which was 

 valued at xx" iij^ iiij''. 



In the same Church of S. Mary Magdalene there were 

 several chantries, which are thus glven, together with the 

 names of their incumbents : — 



The Chantry of the B. V. Mary— John TucU. 

 „ S. Nicholas — Eobert Bailliffe. 



„ Jesus — John Wely. 



„ S. Andrew — John Harvye. 



„ Holy Trinity — Ralph ^Yylkyns. 



„ Alexander Magote. 



„ S. Ethelreda — William Calowe. 



At the same time Richard Jeffrey was Incumbent of 

 Kyngeston with the Chapel of Cutston (Cothelstone), Ed- 

 mund Tui-nor of Combeflflory, Robert Morwent of Lydeard 

 S. Laurence, John Marler of Nynehede, John Hill of 

 Rownyngton, and William Wyneyard of Pytmyster.* 



Frora our knowledge of the character of Henry, we may 

 be well assured that the interval betweeu the compilation 

 of the Valor and the approprlation of the property which 

 it represented was but a short and hardly perceptible step. 

 As in a more ancient instance, the possession of the vine- 

 yard was too tempting an acquisition even for robbery and 

 murder to offer any decided resistance to a tyrant's will. 

 There was a difficulty, however, in bis path which required 

 some craft to overcome. And never was a more thoroughly 



* Yal. Eccl., vol. I., pp. 171, 172, J73. 



