A Belie of Pagan Marlborough. 205 



1610, ii., p. 1863-4 {snh ann. 1558, Nov.) " The Storie of Eichard 

 White and John Hunt, Confessors." Fox relates White's exami- 

 nation before Bishop J. Capon (of Salcott) at Salisbury, 26 April, 

 1557. Bishop Jewel collated Kic. White to St. Mary's vicarage 

 late in 1563. Fuller (I know not on what authority) calls White, 

 as well as Hunt, an husbandman. [Worthies, iii., 322, 338.) That 

 White, the Marlborough "confessor" under 'Queen Mary, perhaps 

 of plebeian origin, was the same as the vicar here in the reign of 

 Queen Elizabeth, is not indeed stated by Foxe in his text, which 

 appeared first in 1562-3 (March 20th). But it is noted in the 

 margin of my copy (A.D. 1610 ; ii., p. 1864a.) and perhaps was 

 introduced there in the second edition, in 1570: — "Eic. White, 

 now vicar of Malbrough in Wiltshire." He resigned the benefice 

 late in 1573. — Chr. Wordsworth. 



A RELIC OF PAGAN MAELBOEOUGH. 

 By the Eev. Chr. Wordsworth. 



In his " Beauties of Wiltshire," ii., 175-6, James Britton says, 

 "the plot of ground near St. Mary's Church [in Marlborough] 

 called the Green, is said to answer to the original site of a temple." 



A century after that book was printed, two small carved stones 

 were discovered by Mr. C. E. Pouting, when the vestry of St. 

 Mary's Church was removed from its position at the north-west 

 angle. He found them in the year 1900, and inserted them for 

 preservation in the eastern wall of the S. aisle, one on either side 

 of the base of the Elizabeth Merriman memorial window. In the 

 course of the work a block of masonry erected after the fire of 1653 

 was removed, and these stones, together with several Norman eaves 

 corbels, were found to have been used as building material. One of 

 the stones in question is a 15th century corbel.^ The other I will 

 now describe. 



» See above, p. 203. 



