350 VILL OF THOMAS WANDSWORTH. 



and profession. The time was at hand, however, when the Prior 

 and his House and all that pertained to it would be swept away, 

 and the Priory Church, which, according to the dimensions given 

 by "William of "Worcester, measured 95 feet by 50 feet, as well 

 as the domestic buildings, levelled with the ground. 



The Prior, however, saw the storm approaching, and, with 

 worldly wisdom, as early as Midsummer, 1537, assembled all the 

 Canons in the "Chapter House, and declared to Eichard Oliver, the 

 sub-prior — '' and the other bretherne there assembled to gither, 

 '' that he did here that the King'^'' Ma*'" would take his pleasure 

 " upon theire house, and, therefore, he thought it good to give 

 " vnto suche as beene good to the house some leases, or other 

 •'preferments, to thintent they shoulde be the better to them 

 " hereafter."* 



Accordingly the Prior and Convent granted, in the Autumn of 

 1537, a lease under the Convent Seal to John Munday, the Prior's 

 brother, for a term of 99 years, of the Manor of Eialton, which 

 Manor had not before been let, but was kept in the hands of the 

 Priors and Convent for the maintenance of the hospitality of the 

 house. A lease was also granted on 20th Sept. in the same year, 

 for a like term, of the manor of "Withiel, together with the ad- 

 vowson of the Church, and the common fishing throughout the 

 whole water of Aleyn and Eyle, to Lawrence Kendall and 

 Katherine daughter of the said John Munday. On 20th October 

 in the same year, a similar lease was granted to "William, second 

 son of Humphry Prideaux of Theuborough, and Johanna his 

 wife, daughter of the said John Munday, of the manor of 

 Padstow, with all its appurtenance, together with the Advowson 

 of the Church of the same manor. On 20th Sept., in the same 

 year, the Prior and Convent granted to Sir John Chamond, 

 Knt., and Eichard Chamond his son, the ofiice of Seneschals and 

 Supervisors of all the Priory Lands ; and about nine months 

 before the dissolution of the Priory the Priory Seal was affixed 

 to a deed granting the manor of Bodyniel to the said Sir John 

 Chamond and his heirs in fee simple, but the King having pro- 

 cured the passing of an Act of Parliament making void all grants 

 of Abbey lands in fee simple, or fee tail, made within a year 

 before the surrender of the house, a lease of the said manor was 



* Deposition in the Court Augmentation. 



