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the Old and New Port, and produced an annual rent of £8 7s. 10t/., 

 with the following deductions: — 



£ s. d. 



An annual rent to the Queen of 8 8 



A charity to the almshouse for four poor women, as 



follows : — 



In alms 13 4 



For four cartloads of wood 9 4 



For six quarters of coals 3 4 



For the sustentation of four beds, together with 



the necessary furniture of the same 6 8 



2 1 4 



leaving £6 6$. Qd. for the annual value. 



No documents relating to any of these foundations are known to 



be in existence, except a few grants of some of the houses and lands 



belonging to them, made by the trustees to various parties. The 



earliest of these is in 1475 (13 Edward IV.), when the feoffees — 



Roger Tocotcs, Knt. ; Nicholas Hall, Esq. ; John Huet, Chaplain; Thomas Noreys ; 

 William Hendelove ; John Raynold, Sen. ; and John Dekyn, of Devizes, grant 

 to Thomas Bayly six tenements in the Old Port, and four acres of arable land, 

 described as "lands and tenements which we, the aforesaid feoffees, lately hold 

 of the gift of John Coventre, jun., now deceased." 



Another deed, dated 1552, (6 Edward VI.) is worthy of notice; 



it is — 



An indenture between Richard Batt, "Meyer of Devizes," and John Ffelpes or 

 Symes, in which the former, "with the consent of his Brethren, and John Baker 

 and Edward Haynes, stewards or procters of and over the lands and tenements 

 pcrteyning or belonging unto the service of Our Lady, some tyme the gyft of 

 John Coventre, in the south side of the Church of Seynt Mary in the Devizes," 

 grants to the latter "one tenement of the landes belonging to the service forseyed 

 in the Old Port, &c." 



The first of these deeds is valuable as giving the date of John 

 Coventre's death ; the second as clearly showing that one, or both, 

 of his chantries were founded at an altar dedicated to the Virgin 

 .Mary in the south side of the church of St. Mary; this (as there 

 arc no traces of an exterior chapel) probably refers to the east end 

 of the south aisle, which, as was often the case, may have been 

 screened off from the rest of the church for this purpose. 



The names of Robert, Henry, and John Wornbridge occur in 

 1542, as stewurda of the lands and tenements of the Mayor and 



