246 Terumber’s Chantry at Trowbridge. 
viz. Reprised for An yerely rente goynge oute of the viii‘, ii¢. 
premises to the Duke of Somerset his 
Grace. 
And so remayneth clere liv*. vit. 
The goods and ornaments belonging to the said Brotherhood 
were valued at viii*. ii‘., and are thus enumerated :— 
“ First, a Masse Book and 2 pares of vestments of parti-colors, 2 corporas 
cases with 2 clothes, an aulter cloth, 2 curtaynes of red sylke, an old cope of 
sylke, a cloth to hange before the aulter of sylke.” 
Even before the lands belonging to this Brotherhood were, like 
those of all similar foundations, disposed of in accordance with an 
Act of Parliament, the proceeds seem to have been alienated from 
their original purpose. The parochial authorities of the 16th 
century were certainly not so guiltless as were their successors of a 
subsequent age. It would have been well if metaphorically, as well 
as literally, they had “ mended their ways.” 
fMemorandum. ‘The Chirchwardens upon their oathes have declared that the 
said land was not employed to aid the fyndinge of any Preste by 
the space of these five yeares but converted to the mendynge of 
the highwayes about Trowbridge where as much nede is.” * 

The thanks of the Editor are due to the Churchwardens of 
Trowbridge for their permission to make a transcript of the deed 
relating to Terumber’s Chantry, &c. The document itself is in 
fair preservation, though in one or two places, where the paper on 
which it is written has been folded, it is partially, and sometimes 
wholly illegible. A few words here and there have been supplied - 
from conjecture, and have consequently, in the following printed 
copy, been enclosed within brackets. 
* Booke of Survey of Chauntreys, No. 58, Certificate No. 46. 
