[177] Public Record Office, Ministers’ Accounts, Divers Counties, No. 230, Bundle 61 (Accounts of John Scudamore, membrane 6): “Nuper Monasterii de Roucester--de precio trium campanorum nuper Monasterii de Roucester remanentium in Campanilia Ecclesiae parochialis ibidem non de eo quod parochiani de Roucester predicta Clamant easdem campanas sibi et parochianis ibidem pertinere et remanere super clamentium suum quousque determinentur coram Cancellario et Consilio Curiae Augmentationis etc. Si dictum clamentium verum sit necne quia easdem campanas occupabuntur et usi fuerunt tam per nuper Religiosos quam eciam per parochianos de Rocester predicta pulsandas ad divina servicia et aliter. Summa nulla.” [178] Exchequer Augmentation Office, Miscellaneous Books, Vol. 172. [179] Appendix, iii, iv, v. [180] _Letters and Papers_, xiii, Pt. II, 586. [181] _Ibid._, 628. [182] _Letters and Papers_, xiii, Pt. II, 627. [183] _Ibid._, 634 (Exchequer Augmentation Office, 220). [184] See the Inventory in Appendix v. [185] _Letters and Papers_, xiii, Pt. II, 656. [186] Sleigh’s _Leek_, p. 64. “Cole’s MS., 26, 246, contains the Deposition of John Whitney, late Chamberleyne to the last Abbot of Dieulacresse, taken 8 Jany., 7^o Elizh. Hereby it appeared that 4 or 5 days after the suppression of that Abbey, several Blanks, having the Covent-sealle, were seene by the Deponent, the Abbot and others being privy. Upon these blanks Wm. Damport, the Abbot’s Scribe, wrote _Leases_, with Ante-Dates: and among the rest one was the Lease and Reversion of the Mannour of Poultone.” [187] Wright’s _Letters_ 282. [188] _Ibid._ 286. [189] _Ibid._ 206. [190] _Letters and Papers_, xiii, Pt. II, 1233. [191] _Ibid._, xvi, 745. [192] _Ibid._, ix, 971; cf. _supra_, p. 83 _n._ [193] _Ibid._, xiii, Pt. II, 1051. [194] _Ibid._, 1052. [195] Cf. Appendix xii, xiii, where many interesting details are given of the journey and the whole business. [196] Cf. Appendix v. [197] Cf. Appendix iii. [198] Cf. Appendix v. [199] Cf. Appendix iv. [200] Cf. Appendix vi, vii, viii. [201] _History of England_, i, 41 n. [202] Cf. Appendix v, vi. [203] Cf. _supra_, pp. 154, 155. [204] _Supra_, p. 39. [205] Cf. Appendix iii. [206] Cf. Appendix iv. [207] Cf. Appendix v. [208] _Monasticon_, v, 383. [209] Cf. _supra_, p. 164. [210] Bazin’s novel, translated into English under the title of _The Nun_, describes the suppression of a French nunnery in recent years, and the after-history of the sisters. It is very instructive. [211] Wright’s _Letters_, 243. [212] Sleigh’s _Leek_, 140. [213] _Ibid._, 64. He left his chalice of silver-gilt to his “servant and nephew Nicholas Whitney,” stipulating that if the Abbey were ever restored the chalice should be returned to it. [214] His rent-roll of lands which he continued to manage, dated Oct. 6th, 34 Hen. viij, is in the William Salt Library at Stafford (Box 145). [215] _Letters and Papers, Henry VIII_, xvi, 617. [216] _Ibid._, App. i.