TA UN TON PUIÜUY. 113 



And it eutlrely feil short of the expectatloiis of its designer, 

 plllage and persecution alone excepted. One even of tbe 

 main objects of the king — who, it is pertinently said, 

 " continued much prone to reformation, especially if any- 

 thing might be gotten by it" — tbat, namely, of enrich- 

 ment, suffered the most signal failure ; and all this hideous 

 work was within a few short months admitted to be of no 

 Service and to no purpose, tbough witb its very perpetrator 

 for a judge. 



In Order to facilitate the disposal of the estates, a new 

 Survey and Valuation were taken. The former, so far as 

 it has been preserved, relatea but to a part of the entire 

 property. It is, however a document of the greatest 

 interest, as it furnishes the data from which the subsequent 

 valuation v?as compiled, and has singular claims on the 

 attention of the local reader. We are hereby presented 

 veith the minuter features of the several domains, which the 

 return that was based upon it does not supply. I have 

 accordingly given an analysis of it, whicb will make the 

 detail that foUows more intelligible ; and the latter, usually 

 called the "Ministers' Accounts," I have carefuUy com- 

 pressed into a tabular summary. 



The Sui'vey, then — which seeras, I may add, to have 

 been preserved rather by accident than design — contains 

 the particulars of the following estates, which are here 

 placed in the order that they occupy in the oi'iginal : — 



1. The site of the Priory, with the Demesne Lands or 

 Home Farm. The lands are enumerated together with their 

 Contents : — Carter's Mede, containing vj acr. ; Carter'a 

 Lese, vj acr.; Avesham Mede, v acr.; Hole Mede, xxilj acr. 

 The Seven Acre, vij acr. The Crofte, arable, xxxiiij acr. 

 Hynde-londes, xxviij acr. The Crofte, meadow, x acr. 

 More Close, vij acr. Caluen Lese, ij acr. A close next 



▼OL. IX., 1859, I'ART II. p 



