The Protestant Reformation

Excerpt from The Protestant Reformation

Chapters, Hospitals, andi other foundations, still'continuei' to be public property but, these form but a comparatively small part of the general mass; and' there'is; after all wholly left-out of the Listh-the numerous private estates, seized on and granted away by the Reformation sove reigns, in virtue of acts of attainder and other means, grounded on the adherence of the owners to the religion of their fathers. As, for instance, estates like that of whicii cowdry was the chief seat, and which was seized'on by Henry VIL, 'in virtue of the attainder of the' Countess of Salisbury and her heirs, and grantedrby him to his' physician, Sir anthony brown, who obtained, from that execrable tyrant, manors and estates running over a considerable part of the north-west of Sussex and of the south-west of Surrey.