a great rout with him; and there did threaten her and
her sisters, saying that he had the king's commission to
suppress the house, spite of her teeth. And when he saw that
she was content that he should do all things according to
his commission, and shewed him plain that she would never
surrender to his band, being her ancient enemy--then he
began to entreat her and to inveigle her sisters, one by
one, otherwise than ever she heard tell that any of the
king's subjects had been handel'd;" vol. iii., p. 130.
"Collection." It is not very improbable that this treatment
of Godstow nunnery formed a specimen of many similar
visitations. As to London himself, he ended his days in the
Fleet, after he had been adjudged to ride with his face to
the horse's tail, at Windsor and Oakingham. Fox in his _Book
of Martyrs_, has given us a print of this transaction;
sufficiently amusing. Dod, in his _Church History_, vol. i.,
p. 220, has of course not spared Dr. London. But see, in
particular, Fuller's shrewd remarks upon the character of
these visitors, or "emissaries;" _Church History_, b. vi.,
pp. 313, 314.]

[Footnote 308: "The yearly revenue of all the abbies
suppressed is computed at L135,522_l._ 18_s._ 10_d._ Besides
this, the money raised out of the stock of cattle and corn,
out of the timber, lead, and bells; out of the furniture,
plate, and church ornaments, amounted to a vast sum, as may
be collected from what was brought off from the monastery of
St. Edmonsbury. Hence, as appears from records, 5000 marks
of gold and silver, besides several jewels of great value,
were seized by the visitors." Collier's _Ecclesiastical
History_, vol. ii., 165. See also Burnet's similar work,
vol. i., p. 223. Collier specifies the valuation of certain
monasteries, which were sufficiently wealthy; but he has not
noticed that of St. Swithin's in Winchester--of which Strype
has given so minute and interesting an inventory. A lover of
old coins and relics may feed his imagination with a
gorgeous picture of what might have been the "massive silver
and golden crosses and shrines garnished with stones"--but a
tender-hearted bibliomaniac will shed tears of agony on
thinking of the fate of "A BOOK OF THE FOUR EVANGELISTS,
WRITTEN AL WITH GOLD; AND THE UTTER SI