Soon after his election Manning was instituted to the vicarage of nearby Chillesford . He was from the outset in Cromwell 's sights and alert to political change , and took care for himself . The condition and morale of the priory at the Visitation of 1532 was not good . William Woodebrige stated that the religious observations were performed , but the canons had numerous complaints . The prior had better victuals than the brethren , and his servants were rude to them . He held all the offices but did not present the accounts . The roofs of the presbytery and transepts , and the ceiling of the chapter house , were decaying ; arrangements for the infirm were inadequate , there was no physician or preceptor , and they were suffering from cold . The brethren grumbled and spoke badly of one another in no spirit of kindness . A monk had been ordained by fraud . There were several injunctions for reform . Having assisted Cromwell over a land-dispute , Manning was chosen ( the first ) Bishop of Ipswich , suffragan to the Bishop of Norwich , in March 1536 , in preference to the Abbot of Leiston . After the smaller monasteries were condemned , and the rising which ensued , in December he sent a handsome gift of swans and other fowl to Cromwell to redress some suspicion of dissent , hoping for royal confirmation for the priory 's survival . The Duke of Suffolk 's men now treated him more abruptly . Three months later he failed to attend a meeting with Cromwell , pleading sickness , and in November 1537 he lent a rent-roll for some of the priory 's possessions to Thomas Wriothesley . On 1 March 1538 he and eight of the twelve canons of Butley signed a voluntary deed of surrender . William Petre , who received it , wrote to Cromwell that they had assented very quietly , and estimated the roof lead to be worth £ 1000 . Apart from the canons , eighty-four people in all kinds of domestic and agricultural service to the priory were listed . Prior Manning , still Suffragan of Ipswich , on the same day sent Cromwell another gift of fowl ( herons and pheasants ) for his table and expressed the hope that they would not forget his pension . The Priory was valued at £ 318.17 s. 02d . The considerable extent of the priory 's temporalities and spiritualities in Suffolk is shown in the '' Valor Ecclesiasticus '' . As for the immediate premises , the Duke of Suffolk 's interest , not least for the lead , was evident , and the site and adjacent lands were granted on a long lease to his Household Treasurer in July 1538 . Mannyng was licensed as Bishop , received a life grant of extensive lands of the manor of Monks Kirby formerly the property of Axholme Priory , and was elected Master of Mettingham College . In February 1540 Suffolk asked Cromwell to intervene with the King to allow him to buy " Buttley and Tangham " : Suffolk exchanged the monastic possessions with the Crown , though the reversion of Staverton Park was bought by the Duke of Norfolk
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