356 WILL OF THOMAS WANDSWORTH. 



" That one Thomas Yivian, beinge somtymes prior of the seid 

 'priorye of Boclmyn aforeseid, to whonie the seid Nicholas 

 * Prydeaux was Servant, and Master vnto this deponent, In his 

 ' Deathe beadde dyd declare vnto the seid Nycholas Prydeaux 

 ' that none of his bretherne, beinge chanons of the seid priorye, 

 ' was meate and able to be prior ther and to succeede him, and 

 ' thervppon commended the aforeseid Thomas Monday then 

 ' a chanon of Martyn Abbey in Surrey, neare London, to be 

 ' prior after him ther, and moued and desired the seid Nicholas 

 ' Prydeaux to procure that the same Thomas Monday might 

 ' succeede the seid Vivian and to be prior of the seid priorye of 

 ' Bodmyn. After the deathe of w"'^ prior Vivian the said 

 ' Nicholas Prydeaux so labored and dealte in the seid cause w^'' 

 ' the Lord Cromwell and others that by the special Travayll of 

 ' the seid Examinants Master one John Symons (by great labor 

 ' of Sir John Arundell of Lanheron, Knight, and others beinge 

 ' placed Prior of Bodmyn aforeseid) was removed, put oute, and 

 ' displaced of his seid Office, and the seid Monday placed a,nd 

 ' stalled prior ther, w'''^ this deponent knoweth to be trewe for 

 ' that he, onlye, wayted on the seid Nicholas Prydeaux, and rode 

 ' to and from London and Martyn Abbey and Bodmyn priorye, 

 ' and so knew the deviseing of his seid master in this aforeseid 

 ' cause, and doth thinke that the seid Thomas Monday was made 

 ' prior of the aforeseid priorye abowte the 25*^ yere of Eange 

 ' Henry the viij*''." 



The deposition of Robert Hill, Esquire, aged 72 years, taken 

 at Helligan, in the parish of St. Mabyn, 16 June, 1576. 



" This deponent sayeth : that he doth well knowe that by the 

 ''Especial Labor, Sute, and travayll of the seid Nicholas 

 " Prydeaux, the same Thomas Monday, alias Wansworth, was 

 " made prior of the late priorye of Bodmyn in Cornwayll, abowte 

 "the 25*^' yere of King Henrye th eight, w"'^ he, this deponent, 

 "the better vnderstood for that he dyd then dwell w*^in three 

 "miles of Bodmyn and muche ffrequented the said priorye, and 

 " was uery familiar w*'^ the seid Nicholas Prydeaux, and when 

 "the seid Thomas Mondaye was orderlye Elected prior of the 

 " seid late priorye of Bodmyn by the Chanons of the said priorye, 

 "by the great sute of the seid Nicholas, he, this deponent, rode 

 "from Bodmyn, in companie with the said Nicholas Prydeaux, 

 " vith the instrument of the same Election to Martyn Abbey, in 



