By Rev. Chr. Wordsworth, M.A. 267 



the late Canon J. E. Jackson, F.S.A., in his paper on Cranhorne 



Cham} 



At tlie Micliaehnas Quarter Sessions for Wiltshire held at 



Marlborough on the 5th October, 11th James I. [1613], a writ of 



Venire Facias was ordered against William Daniell the younger of 



"St. Margarett's juxta Marlebroughe . . . generosum . pro 



illicita venacione in parco prenobilis Edwardi Comitis Hertford, vocat' 

 Savernake Parke, existen : parcum impalat : (Sec. Et illicita capcione, 

 occisione et asportacioue unius dame, anglice a hucke, cum quodam cane 

 leporareo, anglice a greyhound.'" 



At the Michaelmas Quarter Sessions, 1609, the jury panel, re- 

 turned for the Hiindred of Selkleigh, contains the name of W^illiam 

 Daniell, of St. Margaret's, no doubt summoned for service on the 

 grand jury. 



The surviving records of the Borough of Marlborough mention 

 the Priory of St. Margaret's from the civil and judicial point of 

 view only. The Court Book for 16 Henry VIII. [1524-5] shows 

 that the court was frequently occupied with disputes between the 

 Prior of that day, Eichard Browne, and an active citizen of the 

 name of Eobert Nuttyng [who was mayor at the time, or had held 

 the office in the preceding year].^ 



A seal of St. Margaret's Priory, a fine impression on red wax, is 

 preserved in the British Museum (Harl. Charter 46, H. 10), 

 A.D. 1431 ; it is of oval shape, measuring |in. x |in., and is 

 described by Mr. Walter de Grey Birch : — ^ 



" In a niche with double curved canopy on the left, St. Margaret, with 

 crown, trampling on a dragon and piercing his head with a long cross held 

 in her left hand : on the right, the Prior kneeling in prayer holding up two 

 quatrefoiled flowers, slipped. Between the Saint and the Prior, a tree : 



OEA PRO NOBIS BEAT' MAEGAEETA. 

 (the letters AR, which occur twice in Margareta, are conjoined.) 



' Wilts Arch, Mag., xxii., p. 163. 



* See Some Stray Notes from the Marlborough Court Books: Temp. Hen, 

 Till., contributed by E. W. Merriman, Esq., Town Clerk in 1880, to the 

 Wilts Arch. Mag., xix., p. 77, with a. facsimile of some entries concerning 

 Prior Browne on the page opposite. 



^ Brit, Mus. Seals, i,, p. 655, n. 3617. 



