By the Rev. J. E. Jackson. 



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at the feast of the Nativyte of our lord then next cc H . 

 and at the next said Feast ccxlvii 11 . ii. vii. 



M d . the Kyngs Magestie must discharge the seid Erie of 

 all incombraunces except leasses, and except viij 11 . for the 

 cellary {salary) of a priest to serve the Cure of Ambresbury, 

 and vij s . vi d . for synods and proxters {procurations) to the 

 Archdeacon of Salisbury, 



M d . that one for the seid Erie must be bounden in Recognisaunces for the 

 woods growyng in the woods of Shene appoynted to the seid Erie. And in 

 the lands called Est grafton, West grafton Burbage, belonging to the late 

 monastery or pryory of Saynt Margarett's juxta Marleburgh : and in the lands 

 called Bagger uge parcell of the possessyons of Saint Augustine juxta vill' 

 Bristoll, Littellcott, the manor of Eston parcell of the late monastery of 

 Bradenstocke : And the Burgage and the parsonage of Ambresbury, late parcell 

 of the late monastery of Ambresbury, And of Lullington, Backyngton, and 

 Longeleate cum membris, parcell of the late monastery or pryory of H&nton yn 

 the Cowntie of Somerset. 



" Rychard Ryche." 



That the Earl of Hertford, coming into possession of a vast 

 range of monastic buildings, the tenants of which had been scatter- 

 ed and the establishment finally extinguished by law, would desire 

 to take down the larger part of the monastery itself, was perhaps to 

 be expected. But that for the sake of the value of certain tons of 

 lead, a fine church should have been stripped and spoliated of 

 all that was not only upon it, but within it, must be pronounced 

 to be an act of simple barbarism. That the Crown officers did so 

 with respect to Amesbury Church, will be shown beyond doubt 

 from the following papers. 



The first of them is preserved in the Augmentation Office : and 

 has been already printed in Sir R. C. Hoare's History of S. Wilts. 

 (Hundred of Ambresbury p. 67.) It is a paper of instructions as 

 to the monastery and church, issuing of course from the Crown. 



" Houses and buildings assigned to remayn undefaced. 



The lodging called the Priore's Lodging, viz, halle, buttre, pantrye, kytchyn 

 and gate-house, as it is enclosed within oon quadraunte unto the convent 

 kytchyn : the longe stable with the hey barne adjoining : the whete barne, the 

 baking house, and the gate with the gate-house in the base courte. 



Committed to the custodie of John Barwik, servaunte to the Erie of Hertford.* 

 Deemed to be Superfluous. 



The Church, Cloister, Frayter, Dormitory and Chaptre-house : the Convent 

 Kytchen, with all the houses adjoyning to the same : the old Infirmary, with 

 the Chapell, Cloister, and lodgings adjoyning: the Sextery with houses joyning 

 • See Wilts Arch. Magazine viii, 299. 



