TAUNTON PRIOKY. Hl 



Jobn Cockeram, £5 6s. 8d. ; William Persona, £5 6s. 8d. ; 

 and to William Brynsmede, £5 6s. 8d." 



" Staffordell Chantiy. To Eobert Gulne, Incumbent, £5. 



Taunton, St. Andrew's Chantry. To Henry Bull, 

 Incumbent, £5. 



Holy Trinity Cbantry. To Ealph Wylkyns, Incum- 

 bent, £5. 



St. Ethelred's Chantry. To William Callowe, Incum- 

 bent, £5. 



St. Michael's Chantry. To John Seyman, Incumbent, 

 £4 16s. 



Virgin Mary's Chantry. To John Pytte, Incumbent, £4. 



To William Trowbrydge, Incumbent of the Frater- 

 nity, £4. 



To Alexander Maggott, Incumbent of Twing's Chantry, 

 £3 14s. 4d." 



And furthermore, William Callowe is stated to receive, 

 as the Incumbent of a Service in West Monkton Church, 

 an additional pension of £3 6s. 8d.* 



We must now take up the history from the date of the 

 suppression. 



The difficulty was not entirely at an end, even when 

 this defender of the Faith had appropriated the spoil. 

 The lands lay as a heavy incubus on the spoiler. A curse 

 was feit to be inalienably attached to them. People in 

 general kept aloof, and refused to meddle with such dan- 

 gerous property. The religious men of the day regarded 

 the whole affair with loathing, and wisely forbore to in- 

 volve themselves in the anathema which a participation in 

 the wrong would attract. Even cautious men did not con- 

 sider the purchase of such possessions in the light of by any 



* Willis, llist. of Abb., ii. 200, 203. 



