Although Ash’s list was not especially long or rich, there can have been little joy, or for that matter surprise, when a commission was issued in January of the following year aimed at the seisure of all church goods no longer needed. The church may or may not have lost further of its treasures in consequence; the doubt arises because, by that time, Edward VI had less than six months to live.
   Wyels himself was now approaching the end of his days, but he lived long enough to see the death of the young King, the reign in sad miniature of Lady Jane Grey, the accession of Mary Tudor and. the rising under Sir Thomas Wyatt, whose army passed not far from Ash on its ill-fated march to London. In April 1555, he made

his will, asking that he should be buried in the chancel of the church of Ash on the north side of ‘Sir Richard Gallant’, sometime parson there, and that on the day of his burial there should be five masses, ‘a masse of the Holy Goost, a masse of the fyue wounds, Ih'us masse, a masse of the Trinitye, and a masse of Requiem’.⁸  These his last wishes suggest that in the religious controversies of the time, his true sympathies lay rather with the old order than the new. If so, his conscience had been taxed enough; he was not to see the new order come into its own again. The burial on 25 April of ‘Mr. Wyells P’son of Ash’ was recorded in the register that he himself had opened.