260 The Death of the Earl: — St. Margaret's, Marlborough. 



maintain them; he farther appropriated to their house the advowson 

 of Kenuet Church,^ His successor, Bishop Waltham, in 1388, 

 gave St. Margaret's another indulgence for contributors to their 

 maintenance.- 



Among those whom Bishop Metford licensed to hear confessions, 

 within the Archdeaconry of Wilts, in 1396, was Walter, prior of 

 St. Margaret's.^ 



In 1432 Thomas Polton, Bishop of Worcester, (who once had 

 lived between St. Mary's and Mildenhall) left to St. Margaret's 

 house, by will, two coral branches with silver gilt feet, to be placed 

 on the high altar in their oratory, to remind them to pray for him 

 and on St. Margaret's Eve, or on the preceding day (18th or 19th 

 July) to say mass for his soul, preceded by the vigils of the dead. 

 He left also a noble for each Gilbertine canon here and a mark 

 for the prior. Also a book called Swmma Summarum,^ with an 

 inscription on the first leaf to remind them to say a trental of 

 thirty masses as soon as possible for the donor and his friends.''' 



In 1529 (April 12th) Katharine of Arragon's receivers paid 

 £2 10s. in alms granted by the King's progenitors to St. Margaret's, 

 and 13s. 4:d. to J. Benton, anchorite in Marlborough.^ In 1536 

 St. Margaret's was one of the houses valued " under £200 per 

 annum." (S. P. Dom. Hen. VIII., ix., n. 1238.) Its value was 

 estimated at " between 30 and 40," Waylen says ; or, to be more 

 precise, at £48 13s. in 1536. Eeceipts in 1535, £38 18s. 2d., 

 clear value at that early valuation, £30 9s. Qd. 



It was owing, perhaps, to the influence of Archbishop Holgate, 

 himself master of Sempringham, a Gilbertine, who became Bishop 

 of Llandaff 29th March, 1537, that the Gilbertine houses did 



' Ih., fo. 77. 



- Seff. Waltham, fo. 8. 



3 Reff. Metford, fo. 117. 



* Summa Summarum : on Cases of Conscience. There was a copy at Dover 

 Priory, James's Catalogue, p. 427, No. 294. Ascribed to a Lombard Dominican 

 named Silvester, and printed by Grieninger, at Strasbourg, ed. 2. fo. 1518. 



'•> Wilts Arch. Mag., xxvi., 61. 



^ S. P. Dom., Hen. VIII., iv, (3): p. 2732. 



