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CXVI. The Commissioners of the West to Cromwell

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 February 2010

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Chapter II. From the Dissolution of the Smaller Houses to the Passing of the Act for the Dissolution of the Larger Monasteries
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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1843

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page 236 note * The mitred abbey of Hayles, in Gloucestershire, was founded in the middle of the thirteenth century, by Richard earl of Cornwall. Stephen Sagar was the last abbot.

page 237 note * The following note of the fate of this counterfeit relique, which had been seized some weeks before the date of this letter, is found in Holinshed :—” 1538. The foure and twentith of November, the bishop of Rochester preached at Paules crosse, and there shewed the bloud of Hales, and affirmed the same to be no bloud, but home clarified, and coloured with saffron, as it had beene evidentlie proved before the king and his counceil.”

page 237 note † The abbey of Winchcombe, or Winchelescombe, in Gloucestershire, was founded by Oswald bishop of Worcester in 985, in the place of a much more ancient nunnery. The last abbot was Richard Aucelme, Anstelme, or Mounslow.

page 237 note † The abbey of Winchcombe, or Winchelescombe, in Gloucestershire, was founded by Oswald bishop of Worcester in 985, in the place of a much more ancient nunnery. The last abbot was Richard Aucelme, Anstelme, or Mounslow.