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the parish of S. James's.* To Humphry Colles the Grancre 

 of Barton or Blakedon, witli lands called Barnehayes, 

 Parke-meade, Oldhayes, Orclieyarde, Twentle acres, 

 Woodcrofte, &c., with the rectory and cliapel of CorfF 

 and Pytmyster, and tenements in Catanger.f To John, 

 earl of Oxford lands at StaflPerdell, a Particular for the 

 grant of which is dated 23rd Oct., 1543, and a " Certyfy- 

 cat of the vewe and measure of y'= woode," on the ISth of 

 the previous June ; and to Su* Thomas Arundell and 

 Richard Zouche divers other lands at Staftordell-I To 

 William Standyshe the manor of Gaulden, and other 

 lands and tenements in Tollond.|| To Eobert Hyll the 

 manor of Thurlebare, and messuages in Westhatche, To- 

 brydge, &c.§ And to William Eyre, lands at Nyne- 

 hedde.^ To pm-sue further the history of the various 

 estates after the suppression vvould lead us into details, 

 the value of which, as connected with our present sub- 

 ject, would not appear, although they possess a great and 

 peculiar interest of their own, to Warrant so considerable 

 an expenditure of labour, space, and time.** 



An exception may, perhaps, be made in favour of the 

 sacred site of the Priory itself. Whether it was that Sir 

 Francis Bryan and Matthew Coltehirste entertained some 

 qualms about the nature of their perilous property must be 

 left to conjecture. So early, however, as the year 1549, or 

 about live years after their first acquisition of it, they pro- 



* Orig. 3C. Hen. VIII., 8 pars, rot. 17. 



t Orig. 34 Hen. VIII., 3 pars, rot. 32. 



t Orig. 3G Hen. VIII., 7 pars, rot. 91. 



II Orig. 3G Hen. VIII., 8 pars, rot. 11. 



§ Orig. 37 Hen. VIII. p. 1. rot. 40. 



IT Orig. 36 Hen. VIII., 9 pars, rot. 51. 



«* See 5 Edw. VI. Pasc. Reo. rot. 1. 7 Eliz. Hil. Reo. rot. 40. 18 Eliz. 



Hil. Rec, rot. 86. 19 Eliz. Hil. Reo. rot. 99. 9 Jac. I. Miuh. Rec. rot. 132, &c. 



