of the acting commissioners appointed to take the inventories of the parishes in the lathe of Sutton-at-Hone. One was the lord of Ash himself, Sir Martin Bowes, the others Sir Percyval Hart of Lullingstone, Thomas Lovelace of Hever in Kingsdown and John Browne of Reynold’s Place in Horton Kirby.
   Three sufficing for a quorum, Art, Bowes and Lovelace met at Dartford on 23 November 1552 to receive the inventories of some thirty parishes and thither on that day went William Wyels and the two churchwardens of Ash, William Warren the elder and Thomas Kettel. There was, or should have been, quite a lot of explaining to do; the articles lost may not have been of great value but were not inconsiderable in number; they comprised two copes, a handbell, a sacring bell, two altar cloths, two diaper towels, a ‘corpras clothe’ and a surplice. Perhaps the commissioners

were easily satisfied, for they had a very full programme that day. They took note that the items were ‘presented to be stollen’ and that, apparently, was that.
   The church goods that remained and which were ‘delivered’ to the churchwardens consisted of a vestment ‘of grene satten’, another 'of blewe silke with deacon & subdeacon without albes’, a ‘cross clothe of red silke’, three bells ‘in the steple suted’, two ‘cruetts of tynne & leade’, four ‘latten candlestykks’, a ‘censer of latten’, a pix of copper or latten & a cloth of silke apperteyning to the same called a Canapie’, a ‘deske clothe of carpett worke’, two ‘corporax cases, thone of red velvett, thother of Blewe saye’, two ‘chalices with. their patents of silver & parcell gilte’, each weighing nine ounces, a ‘bible, & one paraphrasis of Erasmus’ and the chest for the register book,⁷