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 RENT-ROLL OF THE DUKE OF RlTKINdilAM. 2(59 child, a gentleman, a yeoman and three grooms ; seven horses were to be kept at 47*. for each horse. The Queen was to find the lady in clothes, and to allow 12<)/. yearly ior a cei'tain period," The second wife of the Shepherd Lord Clifford, who w;ls the daughter of 8ir Henry Pudsay, of Bolton, married three times — 1st, to Sir Thomas Talbot; 2ndly, Lord Cliflord ; 3rdly, Richard, third son of Thomas, ]Iarqnis of Dorset. Her first jointure, with the Knight, was 10 marks; this was very largely exceeded when she married the Baron, who settled upon her no less than 150/. per annum. The mother of Henry, Lord Surrey (the Lady Elizabetli Stafford), the daughter of the last Duke of Buckingham, on her marriage with the before-named Thomas, Duke of Nor- folk, received from her father a fortune of 2000 marks ; the jointure settled upon her by her husband's father w^as 500 marks per annum.^ To the talents of this lad}^ Dr. Nott pays this high tribute of praise — " She was one of the most accomplished persons of the times ; the friend of scholars, and the patron of literature." - On the marriage of the Earl of Surrey, his father, the Duke of Norfolk, settled upon him lands yielding 300/. per annum. His lady. Lady Frances Yere, brought a fortune of 4000 marks, 200 to be paid on the day of marriage, and the remainder by half-yearly payments of 100 marks. The Duke was to be at the charge of Lord Surrey's clothes, Loi'd Oxford of those for the Lady Frances.-"* But we shall probably form the most accurate idea how very much might be effected wath a rental of GOOO/. in the reign of Henry VI., by seeing how far any sum in round numbers (1000/. for instance) would go in housekeeping, both in those days and somewhat later. Take the monastery of Glastonbury, well entitled, both from its splendour and its possessions, to stand foremost, as it does, in Dugdale's Monasticon. Its head had prcccdonco of all the abbots in England until 1154, when that distinction was transferred to Saint Alban's. At the Dissolution, the revenues of this monastery were estimated at 3508/. ; and what was its state and condition at that period ? It w;ls not only a religious house and an asylum for poverty, but it ' Nott, M< swpa, p. viii. •■* Nott, «/ .s(t/<m, p. xxiii.
 * Nott's Surrey and Wyatt, vol. i.p. vi. - Nott's Surrey, rri-fat-c, ]). viii.