The following inventory at Roche is
unlikely to be a comprehensive list of all their possessions;
as Aveling
suggests, it is likely that the abbot and monks made a ‘timely
disposal’ of many of the valuables before the visitors arrived,
J. W. Aveling, The History of Roche Abbey from its Foundation
until its Dissolution (Worksop, 1870), pp. 88-9. The inventory names the following: lands and tenements: £222;
plate in the monastery; a cross with a partially gilded shank;
a crozier;
seven chalices;
a tabernacle ‘which lies in pledge for £40; two salts
gilded with one covering; one standing cup, partially gilded;
one white bowl; an old cup, partially gilded; six masers; thirty-two
spoons; cattle pertaining to the house; eighty oxen; five carthorses;
two mares, one foal, one stag, 120 sheep, forty swine; eleven
feather
beds with all things belonging to them; ‘fourscore quarter’ of
wheat and malt.
G. O. Woodward, The Dissolution
of the Monasteries (London, 1966),
p. 129.
