‘The Grey ffryers,’ continues London[784], ‘hathe prayty Ilondes behynde ther howse well woddyde, and the waters be thers also. They haue oon fayre orchard and sondry praty gardens and lodginges. It ys a great hoge howce conteynyng moche ruinose bylding. They haue impledged and solde most of ther plate and juellys forcyd by necessitie as they do saye, and that remaynyth ys in the bill. Ther ornamentes of ther church be olde and litill worthe. Ther other stuff of howsholde ys ybill worth x łi. They haue taken vppe the pypes of ther condytt lately and haue cast them in sowys to the nombre lxxij, wherof xij be sold for the costes in taking vppe of the pypes, as the warden saith. The residew we haue putt in safe garde. Butt we haue nott yet weyd them. And ther ys yet in the erthe remaynyng moch of the condytt nott taken vppe. In ther groves the wynde hathe blown down many great trees, wich do remayn upon the ground. Thees freers do receyve yerly owt of thexchequer of the Kinges almys l markes. Thys howse ys all coveryde w{t} slatte and no ledde.’ Before August the 14th the doctor had sent up the plate of the Oxford friaries to Cromwell’s servant in London, Mr. Thacker, and received from him ‘a bill indentyd conteynyng the parcels of the sayd plate w{t} the nombre of ownces.’[785] The following is the list of Juelles and plate in the grey ffryers[786]. Imp’mis a crosse of sylu’ and gylt liiij vnc’. A chales all gylt xiiij vnc’. A nother all gylt xv vnc’. A nother p̱cell gylt xiij vnc’. A nother chales p̱cell gylt xiiij vnc’ et di. A pyxe of sylu’ gyldyd w{t} owt a cou’ xv vnc’. A sensar of sylu’ waynge xxxij vnc’. A payer of small cruettes gylted ij vnc’ iij qrt’. V masers olde w{t} bonds of sylu’ weyng w{t} the trees[787]. lxxxxij vnc’. A black horne w{t} sylu’ bonde and fot weyng w{t} the horne x vnc’ et di. iij dosyn sponys xxxiij vnc’. A knappe[788] of the cou’ of a maser ij vnc’. The treatment of the friars themselves was a more complicated problem. All of them seem to have been willing to become secular priests, and London urged ‘that with spede we may haue ther capacyties, ffor the longer they tary the more they will wast[789].’ On the 14th of August[790] he complains that ‘as yet we haue nott the capacities and therfor be at the chardge in fyndyng them mete and drink.’ On the 31st of August, again, he writes to Cromwell from Oxford[791]: