Excerpt from Collections for a History of Staffordshire, Vol. 6: Part I. 1885 The following synopsis Of the property Of the Priory is taken from the Valor Ecclesiasticus, temp. H. VIII. In Stone they held rents of assize from tenants, and rents Of burgages and cottages, and perquisites Of Court. Here the Canons evidently had a Manor Court. In Aston, Stoke, and Darlaston (in Stone), and Burston, they possessed rents from tenants. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.