By the Rev. W. H. Jones. 223 
Thornhyll and Lawrence Hyde, Gentlemen,’ in the second year of 
Edw. VI. (1548), we have an account in a Document entitled “The 
Booke of Survey of the Colleges and Chantries et cetera” [Com. 
Wiltes. ] 
From these various Records we glean the following information 
respecting the Chantry in question. 
The gross revenue of the Chantry is said to have amounted to 
£11 18s. 4d. The lands and tenements from which it arose were 
situated at Allington, Chippenham, Winfield, Hullavington, Keevil, 
and Box, in the county of Wilts; at Whitcome, and Farleigh 
Hungerford, in the county of Somerset; and at Weston in the 
parish of Marshfield, in the county of Gloucester. There was also 
a house at Bradford, with a garden adjoining, known as ‘the 
Mantyon house,’ of ‘the sayd Chauntre’ which the Chantry Priest, 
for the time being, occupied, at a yearly rent of 3s. 4d. 
The first named Commissioners reported concerning this Chantry,— 
“There appears to have been no abuse in this instance inasmuch as the re- 
venues and profits of the said Chantry are expended and consumed in accordance 
with the original foundation of the same.’”! 
From the report of the second Commission we learn that ‘ Wil- 
liam Furbner’ then (1548) ‘of the age of lvi yeres’ was Incumbent. 
They add the following particulars, which, as interesting, we print 
in full:— 
“The plate belongynge unto the sayd Chauntre xvii ouz. 
“The Goodis and Ornamentis belongynge unto the said Chauntre prised at 
xxiii® iv’, 
“ em". The sayd Incumbent is a very honeste man well learned and ryght 
able to serve a Cure albeit a very poore man and hathe none other lyvynge but 
the sayd Chauntre, and Futhermore he is bounde by the fundatyon to kepe a 
Free Scole at erent and to eyve to the Clerke* ther yerdly xx* to teache 
1« Abusus Paliie Bait eo a Rayieecues et proficua FEET Gbitars ex- 
penduntur et consumuntur secundum primam fundaconem ejusdem.”—-‘Certiti- 
cates of Colleges and Chantries, Wilts,’ No. 56. (Carlton Ride Office.) 
® By the ‘ Clerke’ is here meant the ‘Parish Priest.’ In the ‘Particulars for 
the Sale of Colleges, Chautries, &e.,’ after reciting that ‘the Incumbent for the 
tyme beinge is bound by the foundacion to kepe a Gramer Scoole at Bradforde,’ 
—the record goes on to say,—‘and to geve the Priest ther yearlie xx* to teche 
children to sing for the maintenance of Divine Service within the Parishe 
Churche ther.’ 
