Excerpt from The Protestant Reformation: Containing a List of the Abbeys, Priories, Nunneries 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; af\ter 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. 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.