Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Part One The Tudor Scene
- Part Two The Gathering Storm
- Part Three Suppression and Dissolution
- Part Four Reaction and Survival
- Appendix I Sir Thomas More's letter ‘to a monk’
- Appendix II Religious houses suppressed by Cardinal Wolsey
- Appendix III The witness of the Carthusians
- Appendix IV Houses with incomes exceeding £1000 in the Valor Ecclesiasticus
- Appendix V The sacrist of Beauvale
- Appendix VI Itinerary of the visitors, 1535–6
- Appendix VII The commissioners for the survey of the Lesser Houses in 1536
- Appendix VIII The conflict of evidence on the monasteries
- Appendix IX The last abbots of Colchester, Reading and Glastonbury
- Appendix X Regulars as bishops
- Bibliography
- Index
Appendix IX - The last abbots of Colchester, Reading and Glastonbury
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Part One The Tudor Scene
- Part Two The Gathering Storm
- Part Three Suppression and Dissolution
- Part Four Reaction and Survival
- Appendix I Sir Thomas More's letter ‘to a monk’
- Appendix II Religious houses suppressed by Cardinal Wolsey
- Appendix III The witness of the Carthusians
- Appendix IV Houses with incomes exceeding £1000 in the Valor Ecclesiasticus
- Appendix V The sacrist of Beauvale
- Appendix VI Itinerary of the visitors, 1535–6
- Appendix VII The commissioners for the survey of the Lesser Houses in 1536
- Appendix VIII The conflict of evidence on the monasteries
- Appendix IX The last abbots of Colchester, Reading and Glastonbury
- Appendix X Regulars as bishops
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The fate of these three abbots, without parallel among the black monks of the dissolved houses, and the paucity of our information as to their last days, give a peculiar interest to their case. What follows is an attempt to set out in reasonable fullness all the evidence that is available to historians in the matter. It will be convenient to divide it into two categories, which may be labelled roughly as ‘literary’ and ‘record’ evidence. It is worth noting that the first class alone was available until the middle of the nineteenth century, and that therefore Catholic apologists and historians based all their accounts upon it.
Charles Wriothesley, 1508?–1562. Chronicle, ed. W. D. Hamilton, p. 109.
In this moneth [November 1539] the Abbottes of Glastonburie, Reding and Colchester were arraigned in the Counter, and after drawen, hanged and quartered for treason.
Wriothesley was a contemporary with a house in the City; the single detail he supplies is therefore probably correct, though he implies that the whole process of trial and execution took place in London. There were at least three Counters or Compters in the City; this is probably that containing the prison and the court of the Sheriff.
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- The Religious Orders in England , pp. 483 - 491Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1979