[50] Sir Piers Dutton was Sheriff of Chester (Letters and Papers, x, 618).

[51] Ibid., vi, 714. (Vols. V and VI give a considerable number of instances of interference with elections at this time.)

[52] Letters and Papers, vi, 1060; vii, 587 (19).

[53] These particulars are from Stubbs (Registrum Sacrum Anglicanum, 146, and Monasticon, v, 377 note).

[54] P.R.O., State Papers, Henry VIII, Fol. Vol. R. and S., 165.

[Attached to this document is a paper containing a longer list of monasteries covering three sides, of which those above-named fill the first side. Some Welsh houses are included.]

[55] Cf. Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, vi, 590.

[56] 26 Henry VIII, c. 3.

[57] The Possessions of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem were taken by the Act 32 Henry VIII, c. xxiv.

[58] Letters and Papers, viii, 149 (75).