ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY 



two chalices worth 5 IQJ. o</., also a cross of wood covered with 

 silver, a pax, and an altar cloth to the value of 4 IO.T. od. ; the money 

 had been spent in church repairs. At North Hayling one of the two 

 silver chalices had been sold by the churchwardens for 3 (a sum which 

 went towards the repair of the church), but without the consent of the 

 parish. 



With regard to colours there seems to have been an occasional love 

 of strong contrasts. Southwick church possessed a vestment of yellow and 

 red with St. Andrew's cross ; whilst at Kingsyate the inventory thus 

 describes the carpet and dossal of the altar : 



It' ii clothes of chamlett that dyd hang one benethe the aut. and a nother 

 above red and yellow. 



The Titchfield inventory mentions ' a chasuble of whyte fustyan for 

 Lent.' At Fordingbridge, which was a well furnished church, mention 

 is made of an organ. At South Hayling there were ' ii masers in the 

 Church House for ale.' 



The Isle of Wight had a separate commission. This is the heading 

 of their report : 



The Certificatt of the viewe of All Church Goodes plate Jewells vestyments 

 bells and other ornaments within the Isle of Wight takene by Richard Worsley 

 Capteyn of the said Isle, John Mewce, George Wyllis, John Worsley, and 

 Edward Lee Comyssyoners the first day of August in the sixth yeare of the reigne 

 of ower Sovraine Lorde Edwarde the Sixthe. Churches xxiiii. Chappelles v. 



These Isle of Wight returns are most carefully drawn up in book 

 form, all in one hand. The stock of kine and sheep belonging to almost 

 every parish church is duly recorded ; occasionally a cow or a few sheep 

 had been sold since I 549. The great majority of these parishes, appa- 

 rently recognizing the object of the first inventory, and being desirous 

 of utilizing the worth of the goods within their own limits, had sold 

 silver plate and vestments since 3 Edward VI., and particularly their 

 second chalice and censers and paxes. Carisbrooke had parted with 

 chalice and pipe, pax and cross, and two bells for which they received 

 47 ioj. od. The wardens also sold (i Edward VI.) a pair of censers 

 and a ship of silver, ' wherewith they bowght xii half hakes and vii 

 sheffes of arrowes.' The wardens of Godshill had sold two candlesticks, 

 two cruets, a chalice, and a pyx for 23 js. jd., and a cross and pax (all 

 silver) for 11 zs. \d. Arreton had sold silver plate to the value of 

 32 6s. 6d., and brass ornaments for 36^. %d. Brading possessed a 

 valuable cross of silver and gilt, which was sold in 1 549 to Ellen 

 Pocock for 23 2 s - 4^-> anc ^ at tne sam e time obtained 15 from a 

 London goldsmith for a pair of silver censers, a ship and a pax. But 

 by far the largest sale in the island had been effected by the chapel 

 wardens of Newport, which must have been exceptionally richly 

 furnished. Silver was sold to the extent of 47 u- 3^-, whilst a 

 great variety of vestments and altar linen realized a considerable sum, 

 and two bells 19 i6s. od. Every item, with the name of the pur- 



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