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."^ 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 Male quinto Item ij albys. Item ij towellys. ij candyl- 



Fyrste in the Stepull three Bellys sticks of brasse 



Item one Crosse of Lattyn Item ij autaclothys. A Crystmatory 



Item one Cowpe of velvyt of dyverse coUours Churchwardens Hughe Rowell Robert Morris 



Item one Vestament of Blew Satten Crystaine Tynmore vicar 



Item one W hyte Vestement of r ustyan ■' ^ 



Item one Vestament of grene Sylke Parishoners William Daneson, Henry Scheye 



Item one Vestament of vclvett of dyverse colores and Clement Grene ^"^ 



Shelforde (3d Sept. 6 Edw. 6) 



Imprimis a chalyce and a patten sylver and Item ij hande beelles 



gylte Item a cowpe of grene satten brygcs 



Item a pyxe ofF laten nott gylte Item a cowpe of Reed and blacke 



Item a crosse of coper gylte Item a westement of damasske velvett 



Item ij crosses of wode covered with laten Item a westement and a tyvacle of Reyd 



Item a pare of censsers and a cryssmitory of worsted 



laten Item a westement of Reyd Sey 



Item ij laten candlestyckcs : a holy water Item ij Vestmentes of Whytt fustian 



stocke Item ij Corparasses 



Item in ye stepull iiij beelles and a sanctus Item ij Aulta clothes : iij towelles 



beell Item a syrples and a Rochett '"^ 



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, vi^as 

 left behind, and from one to four bells."" 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.' "^ 



The commissioners who superintended the spoiling of the Nottingham- 

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



'"' See printed list, with reference numbers for each inventory, by Mr. William Page, in jintij. xxviii, 

 267-9. 



Aug. Off. Bks. 507, fol. S6. '»' Ch. Gds. (Exch. K.R.), /^. 



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"» Ibid. ^. "' Ibid, i^ 



