ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY 



The inventories taken in 1552 for almost the whole of the Nottingham 

 churches are extant at the Public Record Office, though scattered about 

 among a variety of documents. 107 Two of the shorter inventories of country 

 churches are given as examples : 



Basford. The inventory of all the goods and Juyles within the parishe churche of Basford 

 takyn the fyrst day of September in the vjth yere of the Reigne of oure Sovereyne lord Edward the 

 Syxth by the grace of god Kyng of England, France and yrland, etc. 



The challes stolen in Maie quinto 



Fyrste in the Stepull three Bellys 



Item one Crosse of Lattyn 



Item one Cowpe of velvyt of dyverse collours 



Item one Vestament of Blew Satten 



Item one Whyte Vestement of Fustyan 



Item one Vestament of grene Sylke 



Item one Vestament of velvett of dyverse colores 



Shelforde (3d Sept. 6 Edw. 6) 



Imprimis a chalyce and a patten sylver and 

 gylte 



Item a pyxe off laten nott gylte 



Item a crosse of coper gylte 



Item ij crosses of wode covered with laten 



Item a pare of censsers and a cryssmitory of 

 laten 



Item ij laten candlestyckes : a holy water 

 stocke 



Item in ye stepull iiij beelles and a sanctus 

 beell 



Item ij albys. Item ij towellys. ij candyl- 

 sticks of brasse 



Item ij autaclothys. A Crystmatory 



Churchwardens Hughe Rowell Robert Morris 

 Crystaine Tynmore vicar 



Parishoners William Daneson, Henry Scheye 

 and Clement Grene 103 



Item ij hande beelles 

 Item a cowpe of grene satten bryges 

 Item a cowpe of Reed and blacke 

 Item a westement of damasske velvett 

 Item a westement and a tyvacle of Reyd 

 worsted 



Item a westement of Reyd Sey 

 Item ij Vestmentes of Whytt fustian 

 Item ij Corparasses 

 Item ij Aulta clothes : iij towelles 

 Item a syrples and a Rochett 109 



Out of this great mass of church goods other commissioners were expected 

 to leave behind a chalice, a bell, and a surplice, as the bare minimum 

 of what the council considered necessary for divine worship. There are 

 schedules extant of goods suffered to remain, or ' deliverances ' as they are 

 usually termed, according to statements drawn up in May 1553, two months 

 before the young king's death. One of these schedules, dated 6-8 May 

 1553, contains the deliverances to twenty-four churches of the hundred 

 of Rushcliffe ; in each case a chalice, with its accompanying paten, was 

 left behind, and from one to four bells. 110 At Colston Basset the com- 

 missioners on 26 May delivered to the churchwardens a silver chalice and 

 paten and four bells, and lest they should imagine themselves secure in the 

 possession of this remnant of the spoils of which they had been stripped, 

 added that these were ' to be kept unspoilled unembescled and unsold untill 

 the Kinges Maties pleasure be therin furder knowen.' At Littleborough 

 the commissioners left ' ij belles of one accorde with a sarvice bell hengginge 

 in the steple.' m 



The commissioners who superintended the spoiling of the Nottingham- 

 shire churches were Henry Earl of Rutland, Sir Gervase Clifton, and Sir G. 



107 See printed list, with reference numbers for each inventory, by Mr. William Page, in dntij. xxviii,, 

 267-9. 



108 Aug. Off. Bks. 507, fol. 

 "' Ibid. A- 



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Ch. Gds. (Exch. K.R.), 



