Burton upon Trent No. 4 / Bertone / Burton-on-Trent / Burton on Trent / Burton-upon-Trent / Byrtune

There is an entry for Burton [-upon-Trent] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SK2423/burton-upon-trent/] [accessed 17 July 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this 'college' in the Victoria County History (Stafford, vol. 3, 1970) notes: "In 1541 the Crown reconstituted the dissolved abbey of St. Mary and St. Modwen, Burton-upon-Trent, as the collegiate church of Christ and St. Mary. [...] The site and all property of the abbey except the manors of Abbots Bromley and Bromley Hurst were granted to the new college to be held of the Crown at a rent [...] The college was short-lived. In November 1545 it was dissolved by Richard Goodrich and John Scudamore who travelled from London for the purpose and remained at Burton for four days [...] The following January the college and all its possessions, except Burton parish church, its lead, and its bells, were granted to Sir William Paget." [NB: it is not clear from the short life of the collegiate whether the priests used the same furnishings of the abbey church or not; one would assume they did, though]. [cf. BSI entry for Burton upon Trent No. 3 for the disappeared early font of the abbey church].