16 Amesbury Church. Reasons for thinking that it 



It then gives the " Bells remaining in the steeple there, 4, Poise 

 [or weight] by estimation 14 hundred weight," and other particulars. 



Canon Jackson then prints a series of extracts from documents 

 at Longleat, relating to the demolitions, which he has numbered 

 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, and these appear to be perfectly consistent with 

 the two already noticed. 



No. 1 is the earliest of these Longleat documents, and appears 

 to be the second, in order of time, of all the documents under notice. 

 It refers to "the content of the lead upon the late monastery of 

 Ambrusburie viewed by Christopher Dreye and Greorge Hinde, 

 plumbers, at the commandment of Thomas Cumine the King's 

 Sergeant Plumber," 22nd September, the 32 year of Henry VIII. 

 (1540). 



The condemned buildings theref ore,were still standing, at that date. 



This gives the extent and estimated weight of the lead roofs over 

 the high altar and choir, of the steeple, the south aisle, the north 

 aisle, the body of the Church, the vestry, the Chapel of Our Lady, 

 St. John's Chapel, the cloister, the dorter (or dormitory), the 

 Frater, the Jessye, the Hall, Kent's chamber, the Abbess's chamber, 

 the old parlour, an entry from Hall to Kitchen with staircase, Joan 

 Horner's chamber, and the Leaden chambers. 



In this case, the words " over the high altar and quire " seem to 

 mean the eastern limb of the Church, and the "body of the 

 Church" is evidently the nave. 



Documents No. 2 and No. 4 seem to be evidently from the same 

 original, and contain several repetitions. They consist of extracts 

 from William Nottingham's payments for costs and charges of 

 trying, melting, casting, and weighing the lead, dated 31st March, 

 32nd of Henry VIII. (1541). William Nottingham appears to 

 have been acting as bailiff, under Mr. Berwick, the Earl's steward, 

 who was living at Easton, a dissolved Priory, near Pewsey, and 

 who gave personal instructions about the demolition of the steeple. 

 Nottingham accounts for the profits of the demains and parsonage 

 of Amesbury, for a year and a half, ending at Lady Day, 1542, and 

 therefore beginning at Michaelmas, 1540. 



Document No. 3 is a long extract, ranging through the whole 



