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wenlock priory, shropshire.
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The priory of Wenlock was surrendered January 31, 1539-40, when a pension
°f HO/, per annum was settled upon the prior, John Cressage, alias Bayley, and the
manor-house of Madeley was assigned to him for his residence. The revenues of
the monastery, according to Dugdale, amounted, at the time of the dissolution, to
401/. o*. 7$d.
The site was granted by Henry VIII. to one " Augustino de Augustinis," whose
»ame bespeaks him a foreigner. He was, perhaps, one of that king's physicians.
He sold it, in 1545, to Thomas Lawley, Esq. who made it his residence, and in
whose descendants it continued, till Robert Bertie, Esq. son of his great-grand-
daughter, Ursula Lawley, by Sir Roger Bertie, K. B. sold it to the family of Gage.
Lord Viscount Gage alienated it to Sir John Wynn, Bart, of Wynnstay, who
devised this, with his other great estates, to his kinsman, Sir Watkin Williams, Bart,
who thereupon assumed the name of the testator ; he was grandfather of Sir Watkin
Williams Wynn, Bart, the present proprietor of these venerable ruins.
J. B. B.
DESCRIPTION OF WENLOCK PRIORY.
Few of our English monastic remains, perhaps, are capable of affording more
instruction and amusement to the lover of ecclesiastical architecture, than those of
Wenlock. The ruins are seated in a low, marshy bottom, southward of the ancient
borough, and adjoining the east end of the parish church-yard. The chief entrance
to the monastery, from the town, was by a gate on the north side of the precinct,
"which appears to have been flanked by two plain, square towers, one of which is
standing. The most prominent features of the present buildings, are the lofty and
extensive remains of the priory church, which have happily escaped the ravages of
time, and the still more relentless hand of man. Erom these it is apparent, that this
sacred edifice partook of the mixed characters of the round and the pointed arch.
Its magnificence fully corresponded with the opulence of the foundation, and was
Qot surpassed by many of the stately churches of the mitred abbies. The plan of
tad impressed the county, which was the scene of his ravages, that he was escorted to the plate of trial at Oswald-
sl°w, by a body of cavalry ; through apprehension lest his accomplices should attempt a rescue.—Annal. Wigorn.
apud Wharton." Angl. Sac.
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The priory of Wenlock was surrendered January 31, 1539-40, when a pension
°f HO/, per annum was settled upon the prior, John Cressage, alias Bayley, and the
manor-house of Madeley was assigned to him for his residence. The revenues of
the monastery, according to Dugdale, amounted, at the time of the dissolution, to
401/. o*. 7$d.
The site was granted by Henry VIII. to one " Augustino de Augustinis," whose
»ame bespeaks him a foreigner. He was, perhaps, one of that king's physicians.
He sold it, in 1545, to Thomas Lawley, Esq. who made it his residence, and in
whose descendants it continued, till Robert Bertie, Esq. son of his great-grand-
daughter, Ursula Lawley, by Sir Roger Bertie, K. B. sold it to the family of Gage.
Lord Viscount Gage alienated it to Sir John Wynn, Bart, of Wynnstay, who
devised this, with his other great estates, to his kinsman, Sir Watkin Williams, Bart,
who thereupon assumed the name of the testator ; he was grandfather of Sir Watkin
Williams Wynn, Bart, the present proprietor of these venerable ruins.
J. B. B.
DESCRIPTION OF WENLOCK PRIORY.
Few of our English monastic remains, perhaps, are capable of affording more
instruction and amusement to the lover of ecclesiastical architecture, than those of
Wenlock. The ruins are seated in a low, marshy bottom, southward of the ancient
borough, and adjoining the east end of the parish church-yard. The chief entrance
to the monastery, from the town, was by a gate on the north side of the precinct,
"which appears to have been flanked by two plain, square towers, one of which is
standing. The most prominent features of the present buildings, are the lofty and
extensive remains of the priory church, which have happily escaped the ravages of
time, and the still more relentless hand of man. Erom these it is apparent, that this
sacred edifice partook of the mixed characters of the round and the pointed arch.
Its magnificence fully corresponded with the opulence of the foundation, and was
Qot surpassed by many of the stately churches of the mitred abbies. The plan of
tad impressed the county, which was the scene of his ravages, that he was escorted to the plate of trial at Oswald-
sl°w, by a body of cavalry ; through apprehension lest his accomplices should attempt a rescue.—Annal. Wigorn.
apud Wharton." Angl. Sac.