462 Malmesbury Abbey. 



His notice of Malmesbury is as follows: 



Longitudo tocius ecclesiae monasterii Sancti Adelmi de Malmesbery 

 cum choro continet 172 gressus raeos (279£ ft.). 

 Latitudo ejus contiuet 42 gressus (68£ ft). 



Longitudo capellaeBeatae Mariae in orientali continet 30 gressus(48| ft.). 

 Latitudo capellae ejusdem continet 14 gressus (22| ft). 

 Longitudo claustri ex omni parte continet quodlibet claustrum 64 gressus 

 (104 ft ). 



Latitudo navis ecclesiae principalis ultra alas continet 22 gressus 

 (35| ft.). 1 



Until a short time ago these dimensions were all that was known 

 of the sizes of the eastern parts of the church, but now these have 

 been checked by the discovery of certain foundations, in the trenches 

 of the stable buildings erected on part of the site of the south aisle 

 of the presbytery, whicb will be described in their place. 



The great and rich monastery of Malmesbury was the last in 

 Wiltshire to fall under the Suppression by Henry VIII. It was 

 surrendered by theabbatand twenty-one monks on 15th December, 

 1539, and its annual value at that time was £830 Is. Z\d. clear. 

 The abbat was pensioned with 200 marks a year, and a house 

 with a garden in Bristol, The monks had pensions varying from 

 £13 6s. 8d. to £6 a year. 2 Fourteen years after only six survived, 

 four of whom were married. 3 



The site and buildings were committed to the care of Sir Edward 

 Baynton, of Bromham, and of these certain were appointed to 

 remain undefaced and others were deemed to be superfluous. Of 

 the former were — 



The late abbat's lodging, with the new lodging adjoining, the kitchen, 

 buttery, and pantry, with the lodging over the same. The late abbat's 

 stable, the wool house, the barn at the spi'ta'l gate. The gatehouse 

 which encloseth the inner court, and the gatehouse which encloseth the 

 outer court. 

 The buildings deemed superfluous were committed to the custody 

 of William Stump, deputy of Sir Edward Baynton, and consisted 



of- 



The church, cloister, and chapel adjoining. 



1 Itinerarium Willelmi Botoner (Cambridge, 1778), p. 283. 

 s Wilts Arch. Mag., xxviii., 318 ; Mon. Aug., i., 256. 

 6 An History of the Mitred Parliamentary Abbies, Brown Willis (London, 

 1718), i., 140. ' 



