T. Cooper (ed.), Bibliotheca Eliotae (3rd. edn., 1559), under `G ante I': Gigas ... About xxx yeres passed, I my selfe, beyng with my father syr Richarde Elyot, at a monasterye of regular chanons, called Ivy churche, two myles from the citee of Sarisbury, behelde the bones of a dead man founde depe in the grounde, where they digged stone, whyche beyng ioygned together, was in length xiii foote and x ynches, wherof one of the teethe my father had, which was of the quantitee of a great walnutte ...'. The Augustinian priory of Ivychurch, south-east of Salisbury, was dissolved in 1536. Sir Richard Elyot died in 1522.