[509] Sir Piers Dutton to the Lord Chancellor: Ellis, third series. Vol. III. p. 42.
[510] Legh to Cromwell: Suppression of the Monasteries, p. 82. The last words are curious, as implying that Cromwell, who is always supposed to have urged upon the king the dissolution of the abbeys and the marriage of the clergy, at this time inclined the other way.
[511] Richard Beerley to Cromwell: Suppression of the Monasteries, p. 132.
[512] These rules must be remembered. The impossibility of enforcing obedience to them was the cause of the ultimate resolution to break up the system.
[513] At one time fairs and markets were held in churchyards.—Stat. Wynton., 13 Ed. I. cap. 6.
[514] A General Injunctions to be given on the King's Highness's behalf, in all Monasteries and other houses of whatsoever order or religion they be: Burnet's Collectanea, p. 77.
[515] 27 & 28 Hen. VIII. cap. 24
[516] Ibid. cap. 20.
[517] Ibid. cap. 9.
[518] Strype's Memorials, Vol. I. p. 387; Suppression of the Monasteries, p. 114.