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The dissolution of the monasteries

APPENDIX VI THE SALE OF THE GOODS AT THE GREY FRIARS, STAFFORD

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(British Museum, Addit. MS. No. 11,041, fol. 86b)

The Grey ffryers of Staff. surrendryd The Sale of goodes ther made the xxvijth day of September, anno xxxmo. Henrici viijui ., as herafter followyth

Kechyn

Sol. Fyrst, sold to the warden of the seyd fryers ij brasse pottes viijs.

Sol. Item, ij brasse pottes, sold to Edward Scudamour iiijs

Sol. Item, sold to the towene of Stafford ij Church candelstyckes vs.

Sol. Item, sold to the seyd Scudamour ij coberds, (xiid.); a cobert; a spytt, (vid.); and a tryvett xviijd.

Sol. Item, sold to the wardene vj platters ijs.

Sol. Item, a fryeng panne (iiijd.) and a peyre (ijd.) of pothangles, sold to the seyd Scudamour vjd.

Sol. Item, ij pannes, sold to ... vid.

Sol. Item, sold to the bayliff of Staff. a potthangles viij. d.

Summa xxijs. ijd.

Butterie

Sol. Item, sold to Doryngton, a gret basen xxd.

Summa patet

Churche

Sol. Item, a cope of tawny damaske xijd.

Sol. Item, a vestment and ij tynakles of old prest velvet, sold to John Savage baylyf xiijd. iiijd.

Sol. Item, sold to Thomas Williams ij copes of redd tartarne xiid.

Sol. Item, a sute of blue sarcenet, sold to Thomas Cradock iijs. iiijd.

Sol. Item, a sute of grene branchyd sylk, sold to Mr. Offeley vj. viijd.

Sol. Item, ij tynakles of dunne sylk, sold to Pereson xxd.

Sol. Item, ij auter clothes, sold to Robert Doryngton xijd.

Sol. Item, a cope of lynyn cloth steynyd, sold to a fryer iiijd.

Sol. Item, ij table clothes, sold to John a Lee vjd

Sol. Item, ij corperas casys, sold to the prior iiijd.

Sol. Item, a corperas, sold to the wardens of the churche iiijd.

Sol. Item, sold to William Bentrey a stremer of lynyn clothe iiijd.

Sol. Item, a vestment of blue fustian and one of whyt diaper, sold to fryere Wood vjd.

Sol. Item, a sute of vestmentes of yolowe say, sold to Edward Rogers xijd.

Sol. Item, sold to John Webbe the tymber worke in the hyegh quyer, and a auter of alablaster in the body of the churche ixs. viijd.

Sol. Item, sold to Rychard Lees all the setes vjd.

Sol. Item, a table of allablaster standyng in the church, sold to Mr. Loveson ijs. viijd.

Sol. Item in Seynt Fraunces chapelle all the seates, sold to Robert Doryngton iiijd.

Sol. Item, a image of Seynt Katerine, sold to ... Lee vjd.

Sol. Item, sold to Robert Doryngton, old bokes and a cofer in the library ijs.

Sol. Item, sold a old peyre of portatyffe organs to Mr. Lvsun ijs.

Sol. Item, an old cofer, in the vestry, sold to Janys Clement ijs. viijd.

Sol. Item, old wexe, sold to Robert Doryngton iiijd.

Sol. Item, a lampe, sold to Robert Doryngton viijd.

Sol. Item, old bokes in the vestry, sold to the same Robert viijd.

Sol. Item, sold to Robert Whytgreve, a missale viijd.

Sol. Item, ij aulter candelstyckes and a pykes of copper, sold to Mr. Swynnerton xijd.

Sol. Item, a bere franke, sold to ... ijd.

Summa lvs. viijd.

Bruehouse

Sol. Item, sold to the vnder baylyff and to the late warden of the Fryers iij leades, one to brue in, and ij to kele in, fates,[246] iiij tubbes, a bultyng hutche, and a knedyng trowghe xiiijs. viijd.

Sol. Item, ij peces of tymber lyeng in the bruehouse, sold to Bagnoll iiijd.

Summa xvs.

Hall

Sol. Item, a table on the north syde of the hall sold to Robert Danes xvjd.

Sol. Item, sold to the hyeghe baylyff, the table on the sowth syde of the hall xvjd.

Sol. Item, sold to Robert Wetwood, the table at the hyeghe deske viijd.

Summa iijs. iiijd.

Buyldynges

Item, sold to Jamys Lusone esquyer all the church and quyer, with all edyfyenges and buyldynges within the precinct of the Fryers Minours surrendryd, with all the stone, tymber, tyle, glasse, and iron in the same, ledd and belles only exceptyd, and also exceptyd and reservyd the stone wall next unto the towne of Stafford xxixli. xxd. pro. qua quidem summa prefatus Jacobus obligat. inter al. ad solvend. ad fest. Pur. beate Marie et Nativitat. sancti Johannis equal.

Sol. Item, sold to the towneshyp, the wall of the Fryers next unto the towne iijs. iiijd.

Summa xxixli. vs.

Sum of all the goodes and buyldynges of the seyd ffryers sold xxxiiijli. iijs. xd. R’ by John Scudamour esquyer, r. cjs. ijd.

Item, ij belles, one a sauncebelle,[247] the other by estimation Xcth, in the custodye of Mr. Luson.

Item, in ledd upon the quyer and a chapelle by estimation xlv. fotes brode of bothe sydes and xliij fotes long, in the custody of baylyffes of Stafford.

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