convent to this our present writing have subscribed our names and put our common seal. Given at our chapter house the twenty-sixth day of the month of January, in the thirty-first year of the reign of our aforesaid most invincible prince and lord Henry the Eighth.” At any rate the prior, sub-prior, and eleven monks retired upon a pension of £100, which was divided between them thus:— £ s. d. Extranni Baylie (alias Cressage) nuper 30 0 0 priori ibidem Willielmus Corfeld nuper sub prior ibidem 6 13 4 Richard Fishewyke presbitero 6 0 0 Thomas Acton presbitero 6 0 0 Johanni Caslett presbitero 6 0 0 Richardo Fenymo presbitero 6 0 0 Richardo Benge presbitero 6 0 0 Richardo Norgrave presbitero 6 0 0 Thomas Ball presbitero 6 0 0 Willielmo Morthowe presbitero 5 6 8 Johanni Lee presbitero 5 6 8 Willielmo Chamberlain presbitero 5 6 8 Johanni Hopkins presbitero 5 6 8 Summa 100 0 0 Sir John, the last of the long list of Wenlock priors,—many of them noble and distinguished men,—retired upon his life-pension of £30 to the old Court House, Madeley, where he resided till his death, which took place in 1552. Mr. Eyton says he died on Christmas-day, at the Madeley manor-house, and was buried next day in Madeley church. The Wenlock register, at Wynnstay, contains the following entry by Sir Thomas Butler, the then vicar:— “1549. 25 Decr departed and dyed in the manor place of Madeley about IX of the clock in the nyght Sir John Baily Clercke the last Prior of Moncks that was in the Monastre of Moch Wenlock prior ther at the tyme of the Surrender thereof, whose bodie was buryed on the morrow, vz fest of St. Stephan in the parish churche of Madeley aforesaid.” The same authority, Sir Thomas Butler, who seems to have been a most painstaking recorder of events, under date of February 20, 1539, has the following entry a little higher up: “Edwd Browne Servant to my Lord Prior was married in Madeley and the Certf. entered in the book of the parish Church of Madeley.” Unfortunately that register has been lost, if it existed. It may be that it did not, as many existing churches were then chapels, that is affiliations without a baptistery or a cemetery.