By the Rev. W. Gilchrist Clark, 31. A. 



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fa »f the payment by TV. Sharington, the grantee, of £100, presumably 



Mm earnest of the full sum of £783 odd due. 1 The price paid in this 

 pase seems to have been fair, though it is not easy to estimate this, 

 lis the whole possessions of Lacock were not granted, and the grants 

 Included part of the late possessions of Amesbury. 



The grantees of the various religious houses, and the dates of the 

 brants, are as follows: — 6th June, 1536, Monkton Farley and 

 Easton were granted to Sir Edward Seymour ; 29th June, 1537, 

 Stanley, to Sir Edward Baynton ; 28th July, 1537, Maiden Bradley, 

 to Sir Edward Seymour ; 10th or 12th March, 1538, Kingswood, 

 to Sir N. Poyntz ; in 31 Henry VIII., Longleat, to Sir J. 

 Horsey, who disposed of it next year to Sir John Thynne ; 20th 

 June, 1540, Kington St. Michael, to Sir P. Long ; July 16th, 

 1540, Lacock, to W. Sharington ; April 1541, Amesbury, to Earl 



] of Hertford ; 33 Henry VIII., Edington, to Sir Thomas Seymour; 

 (3 Edward VL to W. Paulet and Lord St. John) ; 35 Henry VIII., 

 Wilton, to Sir W. Herbert; 36 Henry VIII., Malmesbmy, to 



j W. Stumpe ; Poulton, to T. Stroucle, "Walter Erie, and John Paget; 

 and Ivy church, to J. Barwick ; 38 Henry VIII., Bradenstoke, to 

 R. Pexall ; (?) Marlborough St, Margaret, to A. Stringer. 



APPENDIX A. 



Report on smaller Wiltshire houses, by Royal Commissioners, ap- 

 pointed 1st July, 28th Henry VIII. (R.O. Chantry Certificate 

 No. 100, m. 2.) 



Com. Wilts. 



[Commissioners :— Henry Longe, Knight; Richard Poulct, Esq.; John Fje ; 

 and William Berners. Their appointment is dated 1st July, 28 Henry VIII. 



" Priory of Mayden Bradley. 

 "[A] A hedde house of chanons reguler of thorder of Seint Augustjne. 



(Former valuation) £180 10s. 'id. ; (present valuation) £199 16$.4e£. for 



the demaynes of the same. 

 " [B] (Religious) eight— viz., preests six and novesses two by reporte of honeste 



1 Record Office, Court of Wards, Box 94, D. 9. 



