{44} At the time of the Reformation, as I have before observed, ministers were appointed by the Crown, to take and keep the accounts of all monies derived from the lands which had belonged to religious houses. Many of these ministers accounts are still preserved and contain much valuable information. According to these accounts (vide _Monsticion Anglicanum_, vol. i. p. 326–27) it would appear that for the first year the Crown received only £31 6_s._ 8_d._ from the church lands in Paddington, and for the next year the same sum with the addition of 2_s._ rent charge, for the conducion of water; but in the 36th and 37th of Henry the VIII., I find the minister returns the Crown Rent of this manor and rectory, at £41 6_s._ 8_d._ {45} Henry the VIII, finding that the clergy readily paid the first fruits of their livings to the Pope, and that £160,000 had been transmitted to Rome, on account of this claim, since the second year of Henry the seventh, thought, very naturally, as he had been proclaimed “The supreme head of the church and clergy of England, in so far as is permitted by the law of Christ,” that he ought to stand in the Popes’s shoes in this particular also; and that the annates, or first fruits, ought to be paid to the Crown of England, instead of going to enrich a Foreign Potentate. He first reduced the payment to five per cent. “the better to keep the Pope in awe,” but finding that remedy unsuccessful took the whole to himself.—Vide _Hume’s History of England_. {46a} The seven Protestant Bishops who succeeded Ridley in this see held it but fifty years. {46b} Whether Edmund Grindall, Ridley’s protestant successor in the see of London, renewed this lease and received a fine for the renewal I cannot say; I speak in the text of the income reserved by the Crown. {46c} _Ecclesiastical Memoirs_.—Vol. ii. part 1, p. 339. {47a} An account of Collectors and other ministers of the possessions of the Bishop of London, 9th of Elizabeth, ending Michaelmas. {47b} This notice is at the foot of the account, and evidently written in another hand: it is Richard Brown’s account. {47c} Rough Notes, 3rd of Elizabeth. {49a} Vide _Collectanea Topographica._ vol. iii. p. 31. The original MS. from which this survey is printed is in the Rawlinson collection in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, No. 240. {49b} Ibid, vol. i. p. 287; or additional M.SS. British Museum, 9049, p. 37. {50a} 26 _Geo._ 2. c. 43. {50b} Judith Jodrell, wife of Sir Paul Jodrell, was a daughter of Mr. Daniel Sheldon; and it appears her life was the last of that family in the estate. I find by a private Act of Parliament, that the family of the Sheldons were obliged to sell their estates at Ditchford, in Worcestershire, to pay their debts, and it is probable that their life interest in the manor and rectory of Paddington was disposed of for the same purpose.