Note 776 — APPENDICES (continued 3)

Morris, 317. Canon Morris does not say where he found the document. He dates it in ‘24 Hen. VIII, 1531.’ [The regnal year. 24 Hen. VIII, by the way, is 1532-3.] But the monastery is called ‘dissolved,’ which it was not until 1541. The list of Mayors (Morris, 582) gives William Snead (1516-7), William Sneyde (1531-2), William Sneyde, jun. (1543-4). Obviously two generations are concerned. The second mayoralty of the younger man was 1543-4. And the appointment of Newhall as clerk of the Pentice was in 1543 (Morris, 204). Oddly, Canon Morris’s error was anticipated in a copy of the proclamation made on the fly-leaf of Harl. MS. 2013 of the plays (Deimling, 1), which states that it was ‘made by Wᵐ newall, Clarke of the pentice [in R]udio 24, H. 8 [1532-3].’