352 WILL OP THOMAS WANDSWORTH. 



however, hitherto failed to discover for what cause the Prior was 

 condemned to die. Possibly it may have been on account of some 

 of the proceedings mentioned above, or, perhaps, for denying the 

 King's supremacy. We are making further researches upon 

 this point, which we hope will be successful, and that hereafter 

 we may be enabled to explain the circumstances. 



On the 27th February, 1537-8, the Prior, the Sub-Prior, and 

 nine others surrendered the Priory into the King's hands, and 

 were assigned small pensions for their subsequent support, the 

 Prior being granted £66 13s. 4d. per annum. 



At the date of his Will the Prior held the benefice of St. 

 Martins, but what St. Martins, or in what diocese, is not stated. 

 Little need be said here of the descendants of John Munday. 

 All his children will be found named in the Prior's Will. The 

 projected marriage, however, between his eldest son William and 

 Elizabeth Prideaux never took place. William married Katherine 

 daughter of William Cock, and the said Elizabeth became the 

 wife of Pobert Drake of Wiscombe, Co. Devon. 



The family is traced in S. Columb Minor for five descents from 

 the Prior's brother. Though they became very numerous in the 

 beginning of the l7th century, they seem to have disappeared, at 

 least from the rank of gentry, after the middle of that century. 

 We find the name, however, in other parishes in the county, but 

 whether or not of the same family we are unable to say. A 

 William Munday married at Fowey, in ] 574, Jane Withiel, and 

 had a large family, whose descendants re-married in that town in 

 the beginning of the 18th century. A John Munday, gent., was 

 living in St. Allen in 1636. Nicholas Munday, of Mawnan, gent., 

 was married at Constantino on 9th Nov., 1657, to Mary daughter 

 of Samuel Trefusis, gent., of that place, and they had a daugh- 

 ter, named Constantino, baptized there on 3rd June, 1665. 

 Possibly this Nicholas was the eldest son of Thomas of Eialton 

 by Gillian Carnsewe. 



" In dei nomine Amen. I Thomas Muudye alias Wansworth 

 In the yere o'' Lorde God a Thousande fine hundred fortye and 

 eight the xvij dale of f ebruary beinge of hole minde and perfitt 

 remembrance and memory doo mtike my testament and last wiU. 



