[93] Letters and Papers, 1523, No. 3239.
[94] Gasquet: Henry VIII and the English Monasteries, p. 27; the appropriation of the revenues of Prez and Tenby to his colleges at Oxford and Ipswich is natural; the revenues of the suppressed houses were too small to have been of any real assistance to St. Albans.
[95] Savine: English Monasteries on the Eve of the Dissolution, p. 24 (Oxford Studies in Social and Legal History). The surveys of six counties are missing from Valor Ecclesiasticus.
[96] Ibid., pp. 263–267. Cf. His conclusion that the monks maintained a population not more than four times their own number. Abbot Gasquet had stated it to be at least ten times as great. Cf., too, Hibbert’s The Dissolution of the Monasteries, p. 210.
[97] E.g. Whethamstede II, xxxi.
[98] Cf. Morton’s letter to the Abbot, 1490. Whethamstede II, xxxiii.
[99] Cf. Morton’s letter to the Abbot, 1485 (Whethamstede II, xxxiii).
[100] Cf. Robert Aske’s remarks in 1536 with regard to the blessings the abbeys conferred upon the ‘poor commons’ (Gasquet’s Henry VIII and the English Monasteries, p. 225).
[101] The printing press generally said to have existed within the Abbey was probably set up in the town by an anonymous master of the Grammar School about 1480. See an elaborate article in the Victoria History of English Counties (Hertford), Vol. II, pp. 47–56.
[102] The school was refounded 1549; probably it never ceased actually to exist.