The last Lady Prioresse of Priorie St Marie, juxta Kington St. Michael, was the Lady Mary Dennys, a daughter of the Dennys’s of Pocklechurch in Gloucestershire; she lived a great while after the dissolution of the abbeys, and died in Somersetshire about the middle or latter end of the raigne of King James the first

The last Lady Abbese of Amesbury was a Kirton, who after the
dissolution married to.....  Appleton of Hampshire.  She had during her
life a pension from King Henry viii.:  she was 140 yeares old when she
dyed.  She was great-great-aunt to Mr. Child, Rector of Yatton Keynell;
from whom I had this information.  Mr. Child, the eminent banker in
Fleet Street, is Parson Child’s cosen-german. [The name of the last
Abbess of Amesbury was Joan Darell, who surrendered to the King, 4
Dec. 1540.  Hoare’s Modern Wiltshire, Amesbury Hundred, p. 73.  J. B.]

When King Charles ii. was at Salisbury, 1665, a piper of Stratford sub
Castro playd on his tabor and pipe before him, who was a piper in
Queen Elizabeth’s time, and aged then more than 100.
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One goodwife Mills of Yatton Keynel, a tenant of my father’s, did
dentire in the 88 yeare of her age, which was about the yeare 1645. 
The Lord Chancellour Bacon speakes of the like of the old Countesse of
Desmond, in Ireland.
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Mr. William Gauntlett, of Netherhampton, born at Amesbury, told me that since his remembrance there were digged up in the churchyard at Amesbury, which is very spacious, a great number of huge bones, exceeding, as he sayes, the size of those of our dayes.  At Highworth, at the signe of the Bull, at one Hartwells, I have been credibly enformed is to be seen a scull of-a vast bignesse, scilicet half as big again as an ordinary one.  From Mr. Kich.  Brown, Rector of Somerford Magna, (At Wotton in Surrey, where my brother enlarged the vault in which our family are buried, digging away the earth for the foundations, they found a complete skeleton neer nine foot in length, the skull of an extraordinary size. — J. Evelyn.)

George Johnson Esq. bencher of the Middle Temple, digging for marle at Bowdon Parke, Ano. 1666, the diggers found the bones of a man under a quarrie of planke stones:  he told me he saw it.  He was a serious person, and “fide dignus”.
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At Wishford Magna is the inscription, “Hic jacet Thomas Bonham, armiger, quondam Patronus istius Ecclesiæ, qui quidem Thomas obiit vicesimo nono die Maii, Anno Domini MCCCCLXXIII (1473); el Editha uxor ejus, quæ quidem Editha obiit vicesimo sexto die Aprilis, Anno D’ni MCCCCLXIX. (1469).  Quorum animabus propitietur Deus.- Amen.”  They lye both buried under the great marble stone in the nave of this church, where is the above said inscription, above which are their pourtraictures in brasse, and