204 St. Mary's ami St. Martin's, Marlborough. 



probably an old Perpendicular one re-faced. Shortly before the 

 fire (December, 1642), Marlborough had been besieged by Eoyalists 

 marching from Oxford under Lord Digby, the point of attack being 

 from the N.W. Col. Eamsay, who commanded the Parliamentarians, 

 took refuge in this church, and the marks of the bullets fired at him 

 are to be seen on the north side of the tower ; several of the bullets 

 were extracted when the tower was repaired in 1884. — C.E.P. 



We learn, from Augmentation Office, Chantry certificates. No. 

 58, art. 54, that there was at St. Mary's a Foster and Pengryve 

 chantry. July 26, 1502, Eo. Foster had endowed this, by will 

 with £6 13s. M. for a priest before the shrine of our Lady of Pity 

 (where no doubt there was a pieta, or representation of " Our 

 Lady of the Pue" mourning over the dead Christ). As at St. 

 Peter's, there was at St. Mary's a Jesus service. It was endowed 

 in April, 1527, by W. Searle with ' the Byllinghouse " and another 

 tenement in the Green Ward. Nic. Tryse gave for his own obit a 

 tenement in Newlands ; T. Seymour one in the Green ward ; J. 

 Bytheway, ditto; J. Asale, one in High Street ; J. Eston, one in 

 Baily Ward. J. Mathew endowed a light before the high altar 

 out of a tenement in " Sylver " (now " Silverless ") Street, rent, 2s. 



In St. Martin's Chukch, founded in 1240 and destroyed 

 between 1548 and 1565, of which the site is now marked only by 

 the old yew tree, between Blowhorn and Coldharbour, there were 

 obits of Ei. Croke, T. Abbote, Ei. Austen, and William Seymour. 



The fact that two Marlborough protestants escaped burning by 

 a series of happy accidents, the last being the death of Q. Mary 

 Tudor, I had often heard. But I have only just now noticed the 

 statement that one of them, Mr. White, became Vicar of St. Mary's, 

 Marlborough. The other person condemned and escaping death 

 was a poor labouring man. J. Foxe, Ades and Monumcntes, ed. 



