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worth appears to have taken his full share (see also Strype's Life of Cranmer,
I. p. 110). On 30th April, 1555, he was appointed Chancellor of Wells,
vacant by the deprivation of John Taylor, ats Cardmaker, who the next
year was burnt at a stake for his religion (Strype's Memorials, III. i. p. 353).
1 Thomas Silk, had been Master of the Gild of Kalenders. He is so
described in Appen. F pout, in which it is stated that xxxiii ounces of plate,
supposed to be belonging to that Gild, were in 1555 in his charge. He was
doubtless the same Master Thomas Sylke spoken of in the following terms
in the Accounts of the Churchwardens for the Parish Church of the Blessed
Trinity, otherwyse called Christischurch, made 3rd May, Gth Edward VI.
(1552) :—
Item, P d when the proctors loked up Master Sylkes wrythynge and went
before Master Mayor w th them - - - viij <l
He would seem to have been suspected in regard to his religious opinions.
- This Chalice no longer exists. At the Dissolution of the Colleges, &c,
the Church riches of the House of the Kalenders and All Hallows Church
passed into the hands of the King, the whole of the silver being seized for
the Royal use and carried to the mint of Bristol (Barrett's Hist, of Bristol,
p. 440). The extent of these riches may be conjectured from an Inventory
dated in 1305, reprinted in Bristol /'<(■■</ and Present, Vol. II., pp. 105, 106,
and there is evidence that it was largely augmented in the l">0 years which
had elapsed between that date and 1553. Thomas Pacy was mayor in 1532
(Kycait, p. 52). For the Chantries in this church see Appendix A.
Evans, under the date of 14th August, 1549, writes : " the plate of All
Saints Church weighed 423i ounces. Some of it was now taken for the use
of the King's mint here and nearly all the rest for the same purpose in 1552. —
Chron. Outline of Hist, of Bristol, p, 142.
worth appears to have taken his full share (see also Strype's Life of Cranmer,
I. p. 110). On 30th April, 1555, he was appointed Chancellor of Wells,
vacant by the deprivation of John Taylor, ats Cardmaker, who the next
year was burnt at a stake for his religion (Strype's Memorials, III. i. p. 353).
1 Thomas Silk, had been Master of the Gild of Kalenders. He is so
described in Appen. F pout, in which it is stated that xxxiii ounces of plate,
supposed to be belonging to that Gild, were in 1555 in his charge. He was
doubtless the same Master Thomas Sylke spoken of in the following terms
in the Accounts of the Churchwardens for the Parish Church of the Blessed
Trinity, otherwyse called Christischurch, made 3rd May, Gth Edward VI.
(1552) :—
Item, P d when the proctors loked up Master Sylkes wrythynge and went
before Master Mayor w th them - - - viij <l
He would seem to have been suspected in regard to his religious opinions.
- This Chalice no longer exists. At the Dissolution of the Colleges, &c,
the Church riches of the House of the Kalenders and All Hallows Church
passed into the hands of the King, the whole of the silver being seized for
the Royal use and carried to the mint of Bristol (Barrett's Hist, of Bristol,
p. 440). The extent of these riches may be conjectured from an Inventory
dated in 1305, reprinted in Bristol /'<(■■</ and Present, Vol. II., pp. 105, 106,
and there is evidence that it was largely augmented in the l">0 years which
had elapsed between that date and 1553. Thomas Pacy was mayor in 1532
(Kycait, p. 52). For the Chantries in this church see Appendix A.
Evans, under the date of 14th August, 1549, writes : " the plate of All
Saints Church weighed 423i ounces. Some of it was now taken for the use
of the King's mint here and nearly all the rest for the same purpose in 1552. —
Chron. Outline of Hist, of Bristol, p, 142.