of the acting commissioners appointed to take the inventories of the
parishes in the lathe of Sutton- at-Hone. One was the lord of Ash himself,
Sir Martin Bowes, the others Sir Percyval Hart of Lullingstone, Thomas
Lovelace of Hever in Kingsdown and John Browne of Reynold’s Place in
Horton Kirby.
Three sufficing for a quorum, Art, Bowes and Lovelace met at
Dartford on 23 November 1552 to receive the inventories of some thirty
parishes and thither on that day went William Wyels and the two
churchwardens of Ash, William Warren the elder and Thomas Kettel. There
was, or should have been, quite a lot of explaining to do; the articles
lost may not have been of great value but were not inconsiderable in
number; they comprised two copes, a handbell, a sacring bell, two altar
cloths, two diaper towels, a ‘corpras clothe’ and a surplice. Perhaps
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commissioners were easily satisfied, for they had a
very full programme that day. They took note that the items were ‘presented
to be stollen’ and that, apparently, was that.
The church goods that remained and which were ‘delivered’
to the churchwardens consisted of a vestment ‘of grene satten’,
another 'of blewe silke with deacon & subdeacon without albes’, a
‘cross clothe of red silke’, three bells ‘in the steple suted’,
two ‘cruetts of tynne & leade’, four ‘latten candlestykks’, a
‘censer of latten’, a pix of copper or latten & a cloth of silke
apperteyning to the same called a Canapie’, a ‘deske clothe of carpett
worke’, two ‘corporax cases, thone of red velvett, thother of Blewe
saye’, two ‘chalices with. their patents of silver & parcell gilte’,
each weighing nine ounces, a ‘bible, & one paraphrasis of Erasmus’
and the chest for the register book,7 |