The jewels reserved for his Majesty’s use were,--two mitres, gilt, garnished with rugged pearls and counterfeit stones. The silver plate consisted of silver-gilt, 329 oz.--parcel of do. 605 oz.--plain silver, 497 oz.--making a total of 1431 ounces, which evinced no great luxury in that department. The ornaments reserved for his Majesty’s use were,--one cope of silver tissue, with one chesible and tunicle of the same; one cope of gold tissue, with one chesible and two tunicles of the same. The ornaments, goods, and chattels belonging to the said monastery were sold by the said commissioners, as in a book of sales thereof made appears, for the sum of £194 8_s._ To money given to thirty-eight religious persons of the said monastery, £80 13_s._ 4_d._ To one hundred and forty-four servants, for their wages and liveries, £75 10_s._ Paid the debts of the said monastery, £18 12_s._ These together made a sum of £174 15_s._ 4_d._, which deducted from the proceeds of the sale, left a balance in the commissioners’ hands of £19 12_s._ 8_d._--History of the Abbey, referring to the Record in the Augmentation-office, dated 38 Hen. VIII.--Dyde. The ecclesiastical livings in the gift of the monastery were numerous;[187] the abbots, who successively presided as the spiritual lords of Tewkesbury, were twenty-six in number, and filling a long interval of four hundred and thirty-four years. Their names are,--Giraldus, 1104; Robert, 1110; Benedict, 1124; Roger, 1137; Fromund, 1162--during whose abbacy the conventual church was burnt. (A vacancy occurs here.) Robert II., 1182. (Another vacancy.) Alan, prior of Canterbury, 1187; Walter, 1202; Hugh, 1213; Bernard, a monk of Tewkesbury, 1215, but not approved; Peter, a monk of Worcester, 1216; Robert Fortington, prior of the Abbey, 1232; Thomas Stoke, 1253; Richard de Norton, 1276; Thomas Kemsey, 1282; John Cotes, 1328; Thomas de Legh, 1361; Thomas Chesterton, 1362; Thomas Parker, 1390; William Bristow, 1414; John Abingdon, 1443; John de Salys; (?) John Strensham--supposed that in his time the abbey was made parliamentary; Richard Cheltenham, 1481; Henry Bewly, 1509; John Wich or Wakeman, the last abbot, and first bishop of Gloucester, 1531. The abbey demesnes consisted of Stanway, modified and enlarged by Abbot Cheltenham; Forthampton, on the right bank of the Severn, about a mile below Tewkesbury; and Tewkesbury Park, Manor Place, on the east or left bank of the Severn.--Hist. and Antiq. of Tewkes. Chron. Series of the Abbots.