It seems likely that either in consequence of .a judgement of  the court or of a settlement made with the Bishop’s blessing, Robert paid up; in any event, we hear no more of sequestrations. With the advent of the Black Death, the ageing Bishop and the parson of Ash were soon to face more cogent problems.
   For the further space of nearly two hundred years the Hospitallers received their pension, nor did it die with them. When the Order was dissolved the ten marks, in the guise of £6.13s.4d., went with their other possessions to the Crown.
   For a few years the rector of Ash would have had the doubtful privilege of making the annual contribution to

Henry VIII, but about 1544 the King granted the pension to a widow lady named Jane Wilkinson, who also became tenant In chief of other confiscated property. At a later date, it came into the possession of the charitable Mr Nutbrown, who blessed therewith the parish of Barking. In 1650, when returns made by a commission of enquiry set up by the Parliament showed that the parsonage of Ash, with a house and eleven acres of glebe, was worth £120 per annum, it was recorded that £6.13.4d. was payable thereout to the poor of Barking. No problem then with land Tax, still less with Income Tax.¹⁰