242 Terumber’s Chantry at Trowbridge. 
mated at £23 3s. 10d. Brought to its present relative value, 
this would represent a sum of more than ten times that amount,— 
probably as much as £300. 
From this gross sum of £23 3s. 10d. there were, according to 
the official document in the Record Office,! deductions to be made. 
The entry is as follows :-— 
Lands and tenements prized at........ xxii! iii*. x4, 
Whereof 
Yerely rentes goinge oute of the premises 
to diverse persones following, viz. To the 
TERUMBERE’S | Duke of Somerset xlii®. v‘., to the chefe lorde 
Cuauntre | of Bradeford x*. iv’., to Anthony Rogers lxxiy’. ix’. 
founded xvit,, to William Palmer xx‘, to Robert 
within y*® | Stowell and John Barnfield iv’., to Xtopher 
Parish Chirche} Dauntsey yi’. viiit., and to the Parson of 
of Trowbridge.| Trowbridge viii’. iv‘., in all 
An yerely charge goyinge oute of the 
saide landes for and to the relieve of the pore iv", 
as by force of the fundation. 
And so remayneth clere ............ xiv§) dx, 33, 
The goods and ornaments belonging to the said chantry, were 
“prized”’ at the modest sum of 14s. 4d., and are thus enumerated :— 
Crowbritge. First, a masse booke of parchement, a paire of vestments of red 
sylke, a paire of vestments of greene sylke, a paire of vestments 
of blacke chamlett with an orpheus * of redd velvet and braunches 
of golde, 2 aulter clothes, 2 corporas cases, a paire of lytel 
candlestycks, a lytel pillow covered with sylke. 
The name of the Chantry Priest at the time of the Dissolution of 
Chantries, was Robert Wheatacre, a name now better known in its 
modern form of “ Whitaker,” but by no means so indicative of its 
origin. At the time of the survey by the King’s Commissioners, 
he was “of the age of xlii yeares,” and the following official report 
was given concerning him and his doings. 
"1 Booke of Survey of Chauatreys, No. 68, Certificate No. 45. See also 
‘Particulars of Sale of Chauntreys,” p. 428. 
*It is so written in the original and is sufficiently unintelligible. Most probably the following 
note from Hearne’s Glossary to Langtoft’s Chronicle gives us the clue to the meaning. ‘‘ OrFRKIS, 
a French word from or, gold and frise, and signifleth a guard or welt of gold, or frised cloth of gold. 
“Orfrais (saith Cotgrave) broad welts or gards of gold, or silver imbroideree laid on copes or other 
church vestments. In old times the jackets, or coat-armours of the King’s gard were tearmed so, 
because they were covered with goldsmithes worke.” The term orphrey is still used for the orna- 
ments embroidered on ecclesiastical vestments. 
