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Ambresbury Monastery. 



and others of Stapulford, and Thos. Noors of Bedywn. 



Lecd delyvered to Robert Steward, sadlcr in London 5 tons, 5 lbs. 



Ditto to Jobn Berengcr of Hampton, marohant, 9 tons, 19 cwt. 26 lbs. 



TLc number of Sowys delyvered to Robert Eyre and Thomas Scmbarbe mar- 

 chaunts of Sarum, 102 tons, 6 cwt. and 6 lbs. 



Sold to Mathew Kington, Ludgersall, and John Monday, Buddesden, sheyt 

 leed 3 cwt. and 11 lb. at 3s. 4d. the cwt. 



Sold to Alexander Auckar, and Robert Peris, Church wardens of Nether- 

 haven, vii clothes,* weighing 1 ton, of lead, at £4 the ton. 



Lead delyvered to Marchaunt of Hampton to be sent to Jersey for Gunshot 

 28 June, 34 H. VIII., 30 cwt. 3 qrs. 11 lbs. 



Total number of Sowys of leede delyvered in all places, 637, containing 

 209 tons, 17 cwt. 2 qrs. 18 lbs. 



Over and above John Howell plombmer layde a pon the Chaunsell of the 

 Parish Churchy and a pon the Gutter of the Newe Covent Kytchen 5 clothes, 

 weighing 11 cwt. Sum total of Tons delyvered, 210 tons, 5 cwt. 2 qrs. 16 lbs. 

 Lead reserved for my Lord, and returned : 21 tons, 3 cwt, 1 qr. 10 lbs. 



It does not appear that any such scene took place at Araesbury 

 monastery church as had kindled Sir John Harington's indignation 

 elsewhere. Speaking of the spoliations at Wells cathedral, he says 

 " Such was their thirst after lead (I would they had drunke it 

 scalding) that they tooke the dead bodies of Bishops out of their 

 leaden coffins, and cast abroad the carkases skarce throughly putri- 

 fied." [Nugse Antiquse, ii. 147.] The graves of the illustrious 

 ladies abovementioned, and of all others buried in the church, 

 have probably been undisturbed. 



The Seymours made a dwelling house out of the old monastery, 

 and the Protector's son Edward Earl of Hertford resided here. 

 His third wife was Frances daughter to Lord Howard of Bindon, 

 widow of Henry Prannell citizen of London. Of this lady a very 

 curious account is preserved, 1 and of a tragic incident in her history 

 the scene lay at Amesbury. 



" She was one of the greatest, both for birth and beauty, in her 

 time : but at first she went a step backward, as it were, to fetch a 

 career, to make her mount the higher. Her extraction was high, 

 fit for her great mind : yet she descended so low as to marry one 

 Prannell, a vintner's son, in London, having a good estate, who 



* Does this mean sheets of lead 1 

 + That is, the present chancel, which, as already stated, had prohahly heen used for Parochial 

 purposes during the time of the Monastery. See ahove, p. 72. 



1 By Arthur Wilson: printed in Brydges's Peers of James I., p. 297. 



