The dissolution of the monasteries

by Francis Aidan Hibbert

• Sermones Yvonis carnotensis[291]
• Leviticus glosatus[292]
• Anselmus, Cur Deus Homo
• Item Anselmus, de processione Spiritus Sancti
• Rodbertus, de Corpore et Sanguine Christi[293]
• Compotus[294]
• Gaufridi Abbatis[295]
• Interpretationes Hebraicorum nominum[296]
• Quidam liber de Titulis Psalterii
• Vita Sanctae Werburge
• Vita Sancti Edwardi
• Vita Sancti Basilii
• Vita Sancti Blasii
• Vita Sancti Nicholai
• Vita Sancti Johannis eleymonis[297]
• et liber qui vocatur Dominus vobiscum
• et Vita Sancti Dunstani
• Vita Sancti Leonardi
• Passio Sanctae Agathae et aliorum, in magno quaternione[298]
• Vita Sanctae Martae[299] Egyptiacae versibus insignita
• Arator, super Acta Apostolorum[300]
• Sinonima Ysidori in parvo libro[301]
• Sex libri Sententiarum qui fuerant Bernardi Abbatis[302]
• Duo capitularia[303] vetusta
• Ymnarium cum aureis litteris
• Epistolae Apostolorum Canonicae
• Omeliarium vetustissimum
• Sermones Paschales Sancti Cesarii[304]
• Ernaldus, de Villico iniquitatis[305]
• Martirologia duo vetera
• et unum novum
• Regula duo vetusta
• Omeliarium anglicum
• Psalterium anglicum
• Passionale anglicum
• Dialogus Gregorii[306]
• et Historia Anglorum anglica
• Apollonius anglicus[307]
• Evangelistae anglicae
• Ymnarium anglicum
• Hugo Abbas Radingensis,[308] de quibusdam questionibus.

INDEX
CHIEFLY OF PERSONS AND PLACES

• Abbots Bromley, [59], [77], [79], [81], [84], [86], [90]
• Abingdon, Nicholas, Abbot of Burton, [89]
• Acton Trussell, [116]
• Admaston, [116]
• Akers, Henry, [123]
• Albrighton, [93]
• Alcock, Bishop of Ely, [19]
• Aldelem, Aldelegh, [68], [104], [117]
• Aldington (Kent), [183]
• Aldred, Archbishop, [9]
• Alenn, Elizabeth, [198]
• Aleynn, John, [103]
• Alfrike, Archbishop, [90]
• Algar, [9]
• Alien Priories, [19], [28], [31]
• Allen, Thomas, Abbot of Hulton, [195]
• Allestree, Allstrye, [69], [70], [79], [86], [89], [90], [149]
• Alms, [1], [3], [60], [86], [89], [90], [111], [128], [207]
• Almo, John, [168], [222]
• Alton (Staffs.), [13], [62], [63], [68], [96], [97], [98], [99], [110], [130]
• —— Thomas, Prior of Ronton, [112]
• Amerton, [116]
• Amyas, Robert, [21]
• Andrasia, [79]
• Anglesey, Marquis of, [201]
• Annates Bill, [43], [44]
• Anselm Spot, [90]
• Anslow, [77], [81], [86], [119]
• Apeton, [112], [114], [115], [117]
• Appeals to Rome, Act in restraint of, [44]
• Appleby, [90]
• Appropriations, [2], [3], [15], [117], [118]
• Ap Rice, [137]
• Apultre, [127]
• Arberton Grange, [115], [116], [181]
• Archdeacon, [70], [71], [98], [103], [108], [111], [117], [120], [123], [128], [199]
• Arnold, Richard, [167], [191]
• Arnulph, Feast of St., [100]
• Ashbourne, [98], [99], [116], [122]
• Assarting, [112]
• Aslebury, [104]
• Asten, Robert, [107]
• Astley, Thomas, [113]
• Aston, [112], [114], [119], [120], [121]
• —— Sir Edward, [25], [120], [203]
• Atkyn, James, [147]
• Audlem, [148]
• Audley, [68], [108]
• Audley, George, [54]
• —— Henry de, founder of Hulton Abbey, [14]
• —— Lord, [102]
• —— Sir Thomas (Chancellor), [60], [75], [83], [91]
• Augmentations, Court of, [56], [139], [144], [145], [147], [163], [171], [176]
• Aunay, [13], [97]
• Austin Canons, [10], [11];
• Staffs. houses, [10], [30];
• Wolsey’s regulations, [22]
• —— Friars. See [Friars]

• Bachaker, [112]
• Bache, [204]
• Bacon, Richard, [10]
• Bageley, Robert, [190], [239], [242]
• Bagford, [103]
• —— Thomas, [204]
• Bagley, William, [117], [204]
• Bagnall, William, [169]
• Bagot, John, [88], [89]
• —— Thomas, [77], [116]
• Bagott, Stephen, [170], [257]
• Baguley, Thomas, [172], [190], [232]
• Baker, Hugh, [117], [204]
• —— Robert, [204]
• Bannebury, Thomas de, [80]
• Bannockburn, [96]
• Bar, Magna and Parva, [23]
• Barkley, [123]
• Barleston, [68], [123], [124]
• Barley, Hugh, [90]
• Barnes, Randall, [190]
• Bassett, Francis, [127], [158], [159], [160], [169], [176], [255]
• —— William, [36], [54], [55], [110], [158], [168], [264], [265], [266]
• Beauchief, [205]
• Beaulieu, [13 n.]
• Bech, Beche, [204], [233]
• Beche, William, [168], [196], [222]
• Becket, Archbishop, [10], [39]
• Bednall, [116]
• Belfeld, John, [87]
• Benedictines, [12], [14], [87]
• Bennett, Henry, [190]
• Bentley Park, [77]
• Berkswick, [58], [68], [117], [120], [181]
• Berreston, [195]
• Beyne, Abbot of Burton, [17], [81], [89]
• Bible, [95], [201]
• Biddulph, [6], [210]
• Billington, [112], [113]
• Billysdon, John de, Abbot of Croxden, [95]
• Biscopham, [102]
• Bitterstone, [24]
• Black Death, [32], [72], [96], [109]
• Blackmore, [93]
• Blithburgh, [23 note]
• Blithbury, [23 note], [94]
• Blithfield, [69], [79], [111]
• Blore Park, [143]
• Blount or Blunt, Edward, [62], [105], [106]
• —— John, [98]
• —— George, [141]
• —— Walter, [54]
• Blurton, [122], [124]
• Blythe, Geoffrey, Bishop of Lichfield, [26], [27], [30], [35], [42], [112]
• Boleyn, Anne, [43], [44]
• Bolton, Edmond, [190]
• Bond, William, [168]
• Bonye, Peter, [197]
• Boston, William, Abbot of Burton and afterwards of Westminster, [43], [44], [45], [47], [48], [74], [83]
• Bothe, John, [157], [175]
• Boudon, William, [172], [190], [232]
• Boughey, George, [117], [233]
• Boyston, Thomas, [90]
• Brabazon, William, [24], [36], [and note,], [37]
• Bradborne, [124]
• Bradley, [68], [93], [110], [111]
• Bradnop, [107], [108]
• Bradshawe, Robert, [177]
• Bradwall, or Bradwell, Laurence, [123]
• —— —— John, [193]
• —— —— Thomas, Prior of Trentham, [122], [193], [195]
• Brailsford, [127]
• Branstone, [77], [86], [90]
• —— William, Abbot of Burton, [81]
• Brazenose College, [20]
• Bredehurst, Henry, [123]
• Brenn’, Hugh, [117]
• Brewood, Cistercian Nunnery, [92], [141], [209]
• —— Benedictine Nunnery, [14], [18], [62], [64], [67], [71], [92–4], [203], [204];
• Dissolution, [138], [162], [171], [172], [175], [176], [178], [179], [189], [198], [199]. [App. iii]
• See [Prioress Isabel Launder]
• Bridgnorth, [108]
• Brocke, or Brooke, Dr., [177], [191]
• Brodsha, Thomas, [155]
• Broke, Mr., [130], [156]
• —— St. Mary, [138]
• Broley, Nicholas, [167]
• Brome, [92], [93]
• Bromley Hurst, [77], [82], [84], [86], [88], [90], [130]
• Browne, Robert, [117]
• Brucheford, [112], [114]
• Brugge, William del, [101]
• Brykylbake, John, [168]
• Buckinghamshire, [7]
• Buildwas Abbey, [205]
• Bulle, Roger, [191]
• Burbank, William, [23], [25]
• Burchard, [9]
• Burdeslyme, [108]
• Burgh, Hubert de, [39]
• —— Robert, [103], [242]
• Burgoyn(e) Robert, [145], [163], [165], [175]
• Burnet, Archbishop Gilbert, quoted, [2], [4]
• Burston, [120], [121]
• Burton-on-Trent, [69], [75], [79], [80], [81], [82], [84], [85], [87], [90], [177], [196]
• —— Abbey, [7], [8], [14], [17], [18], [30], [43], [47], [60], [74], [80], [81], [86], [95], [96], [98], [106], [129], [130], [131], [139], [149], [150], [157], [176], [201], [207]
• Annals, [9], [74] and [note], [200]
• Cook, [81]
• Library, [200]. [App. xiv]
• Manor Court, [84]
• In Valor Ecclesiasticus, [59], [60], [61], [62], [63], [64], [65], [67], [69], [70], [71], [76], [77], [79], [86], [129], [179]
• Dissolution, [160], [177], [203]
• College, [177], [191]. App. [xii], [xiii]
• Pensions, [190], [191]
• See Abbots [Abingdon], [Beyne], [Boston], [Branstone], [Edie], [Felde], [Geoffrey], [Nicholas], [Packington], [Richard], and [Sudbury]
• —— Grammar School, [81], [177]
• Burton Overy, [98]
• Burwey, Nicholas, [177]
• Bushbury, [58], [68], [116], [117], [120]
• Butler, Thomas, [102]
• Byddel, [68], [108]
• Bykerton, John, [190]
• Byssheton, [116]
• Byveley, [103]

• Cade, or Keydr, Robert, [168], [196], [222]
• Calder, [100]
• Calton, [98], [100], [128]
• Calwich Priory, [8], [10], [18], [30], [31], [32]
• Dissolution, [30], [33–41], [42], [44], [45], [139], [189], [198]
• See [Dr. Pole]
• Cambryngham, [68], [107], [108], [204]
• Cannock Chase, [12], [15], [114]
• Canwell Priory, [11], [18], [22]
• Dissolution, [22], [23], [24], [25], [26], [30]
• Cariswell, [68], [113], [117]
• Carte, Reginald, [113]
• Carter, John, [191]
• Casterne, [98]
• Cauldon, [69], [79], [84], [98], [99], [100], [130], [177]
• Cauldwell, [84], [90]
• Cavendish, William, [140], [162], [167], [170], [171], [172], [173], [176], [197]
• Caythorpe, [100]
• Cellarer, [101]
• Cells, [31], [139]
• Chad, St., [137], [159]
• Chaldon, [122], [123], [124]
• Chamberlain, Abbot’s, [103]
• Chantries, [15], [63], [69], [70], [86], [109], [111]
• Chard, Thomas, Abbot of Forde, [50], [99]
• Charity, Monastic, [1], [3], [60], [86], [89], [90], [111], [128], [207]
• Charnels, Walter, [90], [258]
• Chawner, or Chalner, Thomas, Abbot of Croxden, [97], [145], [168], [222]
• Cheadle, [95], [97], [98]
• Checkley, [98], [120]
• Cheddleton, [103]
• Cherinton, Robert, [190]
• Chester, [35], [102], [103], [205]
• —— Earls, of, [9], [14], [121]
• Chetwen, Chetwynd, Philip, [117], [233], [235]
• ——, —— William, [98], [116], [123], [203]
• Chichele, Archbishop, [19]
• Chillington, [93]
• Chirton Cestria, [103]
• Church Broughton, [68], [127], [128]
• Churches, Parish, and Monasteries.
• See [Appropriations]
• Churchill, [105]
• Churnet, river, [100]
• Chyltrenhall Prebend, [113]
• Cistercians, [11], [12], [67], [71], [94], [192]
• —— Reformator of, [50], [99], [192]
• Citeaux, [94]
• Clanford, [112], [114]
• Clarke, Robert, [168], [196], [222]
• Clayborough, Dr., [28] and [note]
• Clement VII, Pope, [23], [43]
• Cleyton Gryffin, [122], [123], [124]
• Cleyton, Rose, [116]
• Clifton, John, [23]
• Clinton, Bishop of Lichfield, [10], [27]
• —— Geoffrey de, [13]
• Clownholme, Le Clownams, [110]
• Cluniac Houses in Staffordshire, [11], [22]
• Cocke, James, [117]
• Coke, John, [62], [105], [106], [194], [264]
• Cokenage, [122], [124]
• Cokysland, [112], [114]
• Colet, Dean of St. Paul’s, [26]
• Colman William, [166], [252], [253]
• Collingwood, [77]
• Colton, [116]
• Colyer, James, [147]
• Combermere Abbey, [103], [205]
• Combridge, [110]
• Comperta, [137]
• Convocation, [30], [42], [43], [55], [87]
• Coots, [107], [109]
• Coppenhall, [120], [121]
• Corbet, Ranold, [168], [223]
• Corbet, Roger, [93]
• Corden, John, [103], [194]
• Corke, Ralf, [168]
• Cornwall, [7]
• Corpus Christi, [90], [128]
• Corrodies, [15] and [note], [16], [21], [60], [62], [76], [80], [86], [87], [90], [96], [110], [118], [122], [123], [125], [203]
• Corveysor, Richard, [197]
• Coston, [23]
• Coton, [115], [117]
• Cotton, [114]
• —— Humphrey, [191]
• Courtenay, Thurston, [128]
• Courts of the Manor, [77], [85], [90], [102], [103], [104], [109], [111], [115], [116], [120], [121], [124], [127], [131]
• Coventry, [108], [117], [120], [129]
• Cowley, [113], [114]
• Crakemarsh Grange, [100]
• Cranmer, Archbishop, [47], [83], [159], [160], [169], [176]
• Cromwell, Thomas: concerned in Wolsey’s Dissolutions, [23], [25], [29];
• and Calwich, [33], [34], [35], [36], [37], [38], [40],
• and Appointments to Monasteries [43], [44], [45], [74], [126], [205]
• and Tenths, [54], [57]
• Dissolution of Monasteries, [52], [133], [134], [137], [140], [141], [142], [143], [145], [148], [149], [150], [151], [152], [155], [156], [157], [160], [161], [171], [175], [176]
• Crosse, William, [190]
• —— Thomas, [116]
• Croxden Abbey, [8], [13], [17], [18], [30], [42], [50], [51], [62], [64], [65], [67], [68], [71], [94–100], [102], [110], [116], [130], [131], [192], [201], [202], [203]
• Chronicle, [94–6], [200]
• in Valor Ecclesiasticus, [97–9], [179]
• Dissolution, [138], [145], [163], [168], [169], [176], [186], [199], [203]. App. [ii] and [ix]
• License to continue, App. [i]
• Pensions, [190], [195], [196]
• See Abbots [Billysdon], [Chawner], [Howton], [John of London], and [William de Over].
• Cumberland, [7]
• Cunningham, Dr., quoted, [81, note]
• Curson, [36], [38]

• Dalbury, [124]
• Damport (or Davenport) William, [103], [173], [194] and [note], [195], [242], [243]
• Darlastone, [77], [119], [120], [121]
• Daun, Richard, [103]
• Dave, George, [168]
• Dawley, [93]
• Day, Richard, [196]
• Dayne, John, [168]
• Demesne, [77], [98], [102], [103], [105], [107], [108], [110], [111], [113], [114], [115], [119], [121], [122], [124], [127], [128], [142]
• Denstone, [100], [110], [111]
• Derby, [81], [84], [98], [111], [128], [130]
• —— Lord Edward, [103], [162], [170], [174], [193], [203], [204], [205], [237], [241], [242]
• Derbyshire, [7]
• Dieulacres Abbey, [14], [15], [16], [17], [18], [30], [60], [62], [64], [65], [67], [68], [71], [95], [107], [131], [139], [148], [180], [183], [184], [185], [186], [197], [201], [207]
• in Valor Ecclesiasticus, [102], [103], [179], [204]
• Dissolution, [170], [171], [172], [173], [174] and [note], [175], [187], [193], [199], [203], [204], App. [ix]
• Pensions, [190], [195], [196]
• See Abbots [Goodfellow], [Whitmore], and [Whitney]
• Dijon, [94]
• Doddington, [114]
• Domesday Book, [75]
• Dorynton, Dorrington Robert, [165], [201], [246], [247], [249]
• Dove, River, [167]
• Dover, Bishop of. See [Ingworth]
• Doveridge, [68], [98], [127], [128]
• Doveridge Holt, [127]
• Draycott, [130]
• —— Edmund de, [101]
• —— or Dreycote, Philip, [107], [203], [204], [264], [265], [266]
• Drayngton, [116]
• Drayton, [24], [115], [117]
• —— Edmund de, [101]
• Duddlestone, [105]
• Dudley, [23], [59], [105], [106]
• —— Prebendary Arthur, [159]
• —— Lord Edward, [25]
• —— Priory, [6], [11], [18], [30], [58], [59], [62], [64], [67], [70], [71], [92], [139], [202]
• in Valor Ecclesiasticus, [104–6], [179]
• Dissolution, [194], [199], [203]
• See [Prior John Webley]
• Dudley, Sir John, [6], [105], [116], [194]
• Duffield, [127]
• Dulverne, [113]
• —— Richard de, Prior of Trentham, [122]
• Duranstrope, [116]
• Durham (County), [7]
• Dutton, Sir Piers, [46] and [note]

• Easter Communion, [11], [110], [111]
• East Molesey, [39]
• Eccleshall, [112], [113]
• Edelston, [128]
• Edensor (Derbyshire), [68], [110], [111]
• Edensore, Edward, [90]
• Edie, William, Abbot of Burton, [47], [82], [137], [149], [177], [191]
• Ednaston, [127]
• Educational work of Monasteries, [3], [17], [86]
• Edulneston, [127]
• Edward I, [16], [109], [118]
• —— II, [16], [80], [96], [106], [122]
• —— III, [15], [17], [76], [80]
• Edwin and Morcar, [9]
• Egerton, Richard, [116]
• Elford, [24]
• Elizabeth, Queen, [41], [45], [174] and [note]
• Elkeston, [122], [123], [195]
• Ellaston (“Glaston”), [31], [34], [98] and [note], [100], [110], [130], [198]
• Ellenhall, Elynhall, [112], [114], [195]
• Ellerton, [112]
• Erdeswick, Sampson, quoted [41], [195]
• Essex, William, [113]
• Esteleke, [128]
• Esyng, [103], [104]
• Etheldred, King, [90]
• Everest, Robert, [149]

• Fairs, [17], [190]
• Fairwell Nunnery, [14], [18], [27], [28]
• Fanne, Thomas, [166], [255]
• Farysley, [24]
• Feccham, [23]
• Felde, Thomas de, Abbot of Burton, [17], [89]
• Fenny Compton, [123]
• Fenton, [127]
• Ferny, George, [190]
• Ferrers, Henry de, Founder of Tutbury, [9], [129]
• Ferrers, Earl, [116], [117], [194], [203], [235]
• —— Robert de, [115]
• Field, [77], [88], [102]
• Fillingham, [107], [109]
• Findern, [79], [191]
• First Fruits, Bill for, [52]
• Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, [19]
• Fitzherberts, [38], [40], [70], [168]
• Flashbrook, [112]
• Fleet Prison, [41]
• Fleetwood, John, [40], [41]
• Forde, Prior of, [50], [51], [191], [192]
• Foresters, [103], [194], [204]
• Forest Laws, [15], [114]
• Forman, John, [169]
• Fort, Thomas, Prior of Stone, [20], [119]
• Foston, [110]
• French Wars. See [“100 Years’ War”]
• Friars, [14], [52], [129], [150], [151], [157], [183], [185], [211]
• Frideswide’s, St., Oxford, [22]
• Frith, le, [103], [104], [195]
• Frodswell, [115], [117]
• Froude, J. A., quoted, [1], [183]
• Fulford, [121]
• Fulling Mills, [15], [111], [121], [130]
• Furnivalls, [96]
• Fyndern, [36], [38], [90]
• Fyssher, William, [191]
• Fyton, Sir Thomas, [119]

• Gaddesby, [123]
• Gairdner, Dr., quoted [2], [139 note]
• Gallows, [100]
• Gasquet, Dr., quoted [2], [139 note]
• Gaunt, Robert, [128]
• Geoffrey, Abbot of Burton, [200]
• Geyton, [68], [117]
• Giffard, Mr., [175]
• Gifford (or Gyfford), John, [6], [25], [36], [54], [55], [93], [113]
• ——, —— Thomas, [54], [55], [116], [225], [227]
• Glaston = Ellaston, q.v.
• Glebe, [67], [68], [79], [102], [117], [124]
• Gloucester College, Oxford, [87]
• Gnosall, [112], [113]
• Goodcole, John, [191]
• Goodfellow, John, Abbot of Dieulacres, [101]
• Goodrich, Richard, [177], App. [xii]
• Gordon, John, [103]
• —— Richard, [190]
• Gorton, Dan Richard, [83]
• Gostree, [104]
• Gostwick, John, Treasurer of First Fruits, [40]
• Grafton, George, [168]
• —— William, Abbot of Rocester, [109], [168], [193], [195]
• Great Gate, [100], [195]
• —— Meadow, [110]
• Green, J. R., quoted, [2]
• Grenburgh, [68], [113], [114]
• Grene, Alexander, [151]
• Gresley, George, [54], [55], [116]
• —— Nicholas, [35]
• —— Thomas, [149]
• —— Thomas de, [87]
• Greswike, Sampson, [147]
• Grindley, [116]
• Grindon, [69], [79]
• Grosvenor, John, [54], [55]
• —— Richard, [103], [242]
• Gynne, Richard, [123]

• Hadford, [103]
• Halghton, [112]
• Halywell, [109]
• Hampton, [94]
• —— Court, [28]
• Hamstall Ridware, [69], [79]
• Hanchurch, [122], [124]
• Hanyate, [116]
• Harborne, [23]
• Harcourt, Harecourt, John, [113], [203]
• ——, —— Robert, [195]
• ——, —— Richard, [39]
• ——, —— Simon, [140], [141], [142], [144]
• Hargreaves, Henry, [197]
• —— Laurence, [197]
• Harmon, Bishop of Exeter, [26]
• Harvey Richard, [172], [190], [232]
• —— William, [117]
• Hartshorne, [98]
• Hastings, Lord, [142], [160]
• Hatton, [128]
• Haughmond Abbey, [10], [112], [113]
• Heathhouse Grange, [112], [114]
• Heath Mill, [197]
• Heith, Richard, [158]
• Heithcott, Robert, [191]
• Hendon, Thomas, [168], [222]
• Hennege, Thomas, [171]
• Henry I, [13]
• —— II, [13]
• —— III, [14], [94], [109], [118]
• —— IV, [87], [88], [115], [125]
• —— V, [19]
• —— VI, [17], [109]
• —— VIII, [16], [19], [21], [26], [39], [42], [43], [44], [48], [50], [55], [80], [99], [122], [130], [134]
• Henyngton, [94]
• Herefordshire, [7]
• Heron, John, [191]
• Heth, Roland, [127], [195]
• Hether, William, [191]
• Hevedale, [112], [114]
• Hevehall, [112], [113]
• Heyton, [103], [104]
• Higdon, John, Dean of Cardinal’s College, [24], [25]
• Hilderstone, [120], [121]
• Hilton, Hylton, Roger, [167], [195]
• Hodgetts, [159]
• Hoggson, John, [113]
• Hognaston, [110]
• Holcroft, Mr., [149]
• Hollington, Holington, [127], [128]
• Holond, Holland, Otto, [116], [117]
• Holte, Thomas, [54]
• Hopton, [116]
• Hornington, [77]
• Hospitality, [1], [16], [118]
• Horsbrook, [92] and [note]
• Horton, [103]
• Howton, Abbot of Croxden, [94]
• Hulme, [104]
• Hulton, [130]
• Hulton Abbey, [6], [14], [18], [30], [59], [62], [64], [65], [67], [68], [70], [71], [95], [98], [106–9], [124], [130], [131], [196]
• in Valor Ecclesiasticus, [107], [108], [179], [204]
• Dissolution, [138], [145], [163], [169], [171], [186], [199], [203]. App. [xi]
• Pensions, [195]
• See Abbots [Allen], [John], and [Wilkyns]
• Hulton Manor, [107], [108]
• Hunchedial, [100]
• Hundred Years’ War, [72], [96], [124]
• Huntingdon, George, Earl of, [90], [193], [203]
• —— Francis, Earl of, [193]
• Hyll, William, [127]
• Hyns, [24]