ent howe and to
what use the moneye cummynge of the sale of our ornamentes and plate
is employd and in what place of our church it is bestowed, to that we
saye yt is not in our wyttes to tell ... and surly yf there be not
moche more reparacyons done upon the said churche shortly yt will
utterly dekay."
The list of "plate and other things" left in the church is as follows:
Two communion cups with a cover all gilt.
Nineteen albes and six amices, lacking all their apparel,
"whereof the wardens have made sixteen surplices for the
choir, which was all that could be made of them."
Towels and tablecloths, good and bad, diaper and plain xij.
A cushion of green silk.
Three hearse-cloths, one of Our Lady, another of Saynt
Katheryne, and one of blue and red velvet.
Six "bells of accorde" and one small bell.
Which bells the parish bought of the late king of famous
memory king Henry the eight at the purchesing of the hole
church.
A bible and a paraphrases.
Three communion books and four psalters printed.
Two pair of good organs furnished.
A chest with two locks for the alms for the poor.
Five "great pieces of leed squayr lyeinge upon the bellowes."
This is followed by a _Memorandum_, which is not without a touch
of humour under the circumstances, pointing out that "it
appears in the accounts of Nycholas Stokbrige and his
companions (Wardens of the first and second year) that they
have not charged themselves in their book a good carpet and a
chapel bell."
(_Signed by_) THOMAS DYSON,
ROGER PYLFOLD, and
THOMAS DOWMAN.
The Inventories are given _in extenso_ among the "Inventories of the
Goods and Ornaments of the Churches in the County of Surrey in the
reign of Edward VI," carefully edited by J.R. Daniel Tyssen, Esq.,
F.S.A., for the "Surrey Archaeological Collections," from the original
documents in the Public Record Office.
FOOTNOTES:
[33] The explanations in the footnotes have been kindly furnished by
Mr. F.C. Eeles, Secretary to the Alcuin Club.
[34] The term "vestment" was often used to include not merely the
chasuble, but also the other vestments of the celebrant and his
assistant ministers; sometimes it also included the vestments of the
altar, th
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