Gasquet, Francis Aidan, 1846-1929 · New York, Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 253
ion at £44a year. The commissioners to take surrenders of religioushouses arrived in Yorkshire at the beginning of Decem-t^c^j 1539- Their names were George Lawson, RichardBellassis, William Blithman and James Rokeby. On thefifteenth of that month they wrote to Crumwell fromYork that they had… … RIEVAULX reached from Byland on December 3, 1539. The ac-counts of these officials subsequently presented to theAugmentation Office afford us some particulars. Thegoods of the abbey when sold produced £281 5s. 4d.; thelead from the roofs and gutters had been melted down to140 fodders, and there…
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