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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62734	Notitia monastica, or, A short history of the religious houses in England and Wales by Thomas Tanner ...	Tanner, Thomas, 1674-1735.	1695 (1695)	Wing T144; ESTC R668	166,591	415

Covent to that purpose whose activeness was such that within the space of two years several Covents were wrought upon and Commissioners sent down to take them at their hands to the Kings use of which number I find that besides the before specified Doctors of Law scil Legh Petre and Layton and Dr. London Dean of Walingford there was Rob. Earl of Sussex Sir John St. Clere Sir Will. Pirton Sir Henry Farington Knights and Richard Devereux sometimes a Frier And of Gentlemen Anthony Fitz-Herbert afterwards one of the Iustices of the Common Pleas John Gage Will. Leland John Williams Tho. Mildmay ... Jobson Richard Cromwell Rob. Southwell Will. Parr Thomas Bedyll Henry Polsted John Anthony Edmund Knightly John Lane George Giffard John Grevill Sim. Mountfort Thomas Holt Roger Wigston Rob. Burgoin Richard Pollard Philip Parys John Smith Edw. Carn Rich. Gwent Will. Barners John Arnold John ap Rice and Rich. Paulet The truth is that there was no omission of any endeavour that can well be imagined to accomplish these surrenders For so subtilly did the Commissioners act their parts as that after earnest solicitation with the Abbats and finding them backwards they first attempted them with the promises of good Pensions during life whereby they found some forward enough to promote the work as the Abbat of Hales in Com. Gloc. was who had high commendation for it by the Commissioners as their Letters to the Visitor General do manifest So likewise had the Abbats of Ramsey and the Prior of Ely Nay som● were to be obsequious that after they had wrought the surrender of their own Houses they were imployed as Commissioners to perswade with others as the Prior of Gisborn in Yorkshire for one Neither were the Courtiers unactive in driving on this work as may seem by the Lord Chancellour Audley's imploying a special Agent to treat with the Abbat of Athelney and to offer him an hundred marks per annum Pension in case he would surrender which the Abbat refused insisting upon a greater sum And the personal endeavours that he used with the Abbat of St. Osithe's in Essex as by his Letter to the said Visitor wherein it is signified That he had by great solicitation prevail'd with the said Abbat but withall insinuated his desire that his place of Lord Chancellour being very chargeable the King might be moved for an addition of some more profitable Offices unto him Nay I find that this great Man the Lord Chancellour hunting eagerly after the Abby of Walden in Essex out of the ruines whereof afterwards that magnificent Fabrick called by the name of Audley-end was built as an argument the sooner to obtain it did besides the extenuation of its worth alledge That he had in this world sustained great damage and infamy in his serving the King which the grant of that should recompense Amongst the particular arguments which were used by those that were averse to surrender I find that the Abbat of Feversham alledg'd the antiquity of that Monasterie's foundation scil by King Stephen whose body with the bodies of the Queen and Prince lay there interr'd and for whom were used continual suffrages and commendations by Prayers yet it would not avail For resolv'd they were to effect what they had begun by one means or other in so much as they procured the Bishop of London to come to the Nuns of Sion with their Confessor to solicite them thereunto who after many perswasions Took it upon their consciences that they ought to submit unto the King's pleasure therein by God's Law But what could not be effected by such arguments and fair promises which were not wanting nor unfulfilled as appears by the larg● Pensions that some active Monks and Canons had in comparison of others even to a fift and sixth fold proportion more than ordinary was by terrour and straight dealing brought to pass for under pretence of suffering dilapidation in the buildings or negligent administration of their Offices as also for breaking the Kings injunctions they dep●ived some Abbats and then put others that were more pliant in their rooms From others they took their Covent Seals to the end they might not by making Leases nor sale of their Iewels raise money either for supply of their present wants or payment of their debts and so be necessitated to surrender Nay to some as in particular to the Canons of Leicester the Commissioners threatned That they would charge them with Adultery and Buggery unless they would submit And Dr. London told the Nuns of Godstow That because he found them obstinate he would dissolve the House by vertue of the Kings Commission in spite of their teeth And yet all was so managed as that the King was solicited to accept of them not being willing to have it thought they were by terrour moved thereunto and special notice was taken of them as did give out that their surrenders were by compulsion Which courses after so many thro● under hand corruption had led the way brought on others apace as appears by their Dates which I have observed from the very Instruments themselves in so much as the rest stood amazed not knowing which way to turn them Some therefore thought fit to try whether money might save their Houses from this dismal fate so near at hand the Abbat of Peterburgh offering 2500. marks to the King and 300 l. to the Visitor General therein Others with great constancy refused to be thus accessary in violating the donations of their Pious Founders but these as they were not many so did they taste of no little severity For touching the Abbat of Fountains in Yorkshire I find that being charged by the Commissioners for taking into his private hands some Iewels belonging to that Monastery which they called Theft and Sacrilege they pronounced him perjured and so deposing him extorted a private resignation And it appears that the Monks of Charterhouse in the Suburbs of London were committed to Newgate where with hard and barbarous usage five of them died and five more lay at the point of death as the Commissioners signified but withall alledged That the Suppression of that House being of so strict a Rule would occasion great scandal to their doings forasmuch as it stood in the face of the world infinite concourse from all parts coming to that populous City and therefore desired it might be altered to some other use And lastly that under the like pretence of robbing the Church wherewith the before specified Abbat of Fountains was charged the Abbat of Glastonbury with two of his Monks being condemned to death was drawn from Wells upon a Hurdle then hanged upon the Hill called the Tor near Glastonbury his head set upon the Abby gate and his quarters disposed of to Wells Bath Ilchester and Bridgewater Nor did the Abbats of Colchester and Reading speed much better as they that shall consult