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concliiding glimpse that we get of them. In subsequent 

 recoi'ds they appear no more. 



AVe must now turn to the real cause of tlie hard 

 measure and undeserved brutality so mercllessly dealt 

 out to these innocent sufFerers. The main temptatlon 

 to the aggression against their peace was the lands with 

 which ancient llberality had endowed tliem, and after which 

 an unscrupulous tyrant and greedy courtiers thirstcd, even. 

 to the robbery, or if need were, the murder of their 

 lawful owners. 



To illustrate the earllest condition of the propcrty after 

 it had been thus wrested from them and taken into the 

 king's hands, I will furnish the reader with a brief but 

 carefully made Abstract of the Eeturn called the Ministers' 

 Accounts, for the year ending at Michaelmas, 1539, the 

 first, it will be remembered, subsequent to the Dissolution. 

 The original record seems at the first aspect little less 

 than obscurity itself, but this is to a great extent i'emoved 

 by adopting the tabular form in which it is here presented. 

 The amounts have yet to be charged with sundry deduc- 

 tions in the shape of stipends, repairs, &c., as will be seen 

 by comparison with the " Valor," wliere many of them are 

 already given. 



THE LATE PKIOßY OF BUCKELOND. 



The Accounts of all axd Singular tue Bailiffs, 



FaUMERS, &C , FROM MiCHAELMAS, 1538, TO 



Michaeljias, 1539. 



The Accoüxt of Edwaed IIogebs, Esq., Faujieh. 

 BuCKELOND. 



Farm of the site of the late Prior}^, inchid- 

 ing gardens, orchards, and other lauds, 

 callcd xiiij Acre«, Newlonde, Furche?, 



