The dissolution of the monasteries

by Francis Aidan Hibbert

[72] Valor Ecclesiasticus, iii, 146.

[73] Cal. Pat. Rolls, Edw. III, 1313–18, pp. 428, 447, 564; 1318–23, pp. 116, 694.

[74] Cal. Pat. Rolls, Edw. III, 1307–13, pp. 331, 335, 343.

[77] Cunningham, Growth of English Industry and Commerce, i, 625–632.

[78] A Description of Leicestershire, by William Burton (1622), p. 119.

[79] Cf. supra, p. 47.

[80] The tradition is recorded by J. Bacon in the Preface to his edition (1786) of Ecton’s Thesaurus rerum Ecclesiasticarum, the first edition of which was printed in 1711. Ecton and Bacon were both officials of the Office of First-Fruits and Tenths.

[81] In 1535, Cranmer wrote to Cromwell: “I understand the Priory of Worcester is to be shortly void. If so, be good to ... Dn. Richard Gorton, B.D., of the house of Burton-on-Trent.”—Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, ix, 971.)

[82] Valor Ecclesiasticus, 126.

[83] Ibid., 163.