_Stone_. In the spiritualities the balance is printed in _V.E._ as £68 15s. 5¼d., whereas it should be £59 15s. 5⅓d. The final balance, therefore, should be £110 14s. 11⅓d. instead of as shown in the table. As the tithe paid (£11 19s. 6d.) is correct for £119 14s. 11¼d. the mistake is probably due to the official: he wrote £lviiii when he put down the total spiritual income, but read it as £lxviii when he added the total. _Trentham_. In temporalities the balance should be £75 13s. 2d. according to the figures given, and this error of 10d. affects the whole calculation. The final balance, according to the figures given in _V.E._, should be £106 2s. 10-11/12d. If the 10d. be added it becomes practically what _V.E._ makes it, viz., £106 3s. 8-11/12d. From the table it is evident that the total income of the religious houses amounted to something like £1,608 5s. 2¾d., at least, so far as Staffordshire is concerned. Only a small fraction of this was returned to the Church when the property of the monasteries was confiscated, and practically nothing of the “moveable” wealth they contained. How great this latter was is shown by the proceeds of the sales which were conducted at the Suppression. We shall revert to the subject later. The extent to which the monasteries had “robbed” the parish churches is shown by the following figures, taken from _Valor Ecclesiasticus_. The first column gives the tithes received by the monasteries, the second gives the amounts which came from parish churches in other ways, such as glebe, offerings, etc. The third gives the payments made by the monasteries to churches. In all cases the figures are from _Valor Ecclesiasticus_. -------------------+-----------+------------+---------- |Tithes |Other Income|Payments |Received |from |to | |Churches |Churches +-----------+------------+---------- | £ s. d.| £ s. d. | £ s. d. Brewood Nunnery | | | Burton Abbey | 46 6 8 | 52 13 4 | 4 6 8 | | 1 | Croxden Abbey | 8 15 4 | | 1 3 0 Dieulacres Abbey | 57 19 8 | 10 10 8 | 18 6 Dudley Priory | 18 16 8 | 2 6 0 | Hulton Abbey | 18 10 0 | 2 0 0 | 5 4 Rocester Priory | 47 13 10 | | 16 8 Ronton Priory | 46 1 6 | | 1 0 St. Thomas’s Priory| 40 2 8 | 9 19 8 | 3 4 Stone Priory | 53 10 0 | 22 0 0 | Trentham Priory | 14 10 4 | 21 13 4 | Tutbury Priory | 49 0 4 | 20 16 4 | 11 13 4 | --------- | --------- | -------- |£401 7 0 |£141 19 5 |£19 7 10 -------------------+-----------+------------+---------