By F. A. Carrington, Esq. 107 
£47 Os. Od. more, for the same purpose. Also for Swindon stone, 
used in the building, and to the free-masons for “ clyminge crests 
and bottle crests.” 
The building erected in 1630, which sometimes went by the 
name of “St. Marie’s Market House,” from its vicinity to that 
church, had a brief existence of only twenty-two years, being de- 
stroyed in the Great Fire at Marlborough, 28th April, 1653. Of 
that catastrophe, a good account is preserved in a printed work, 
- a copy of which is in the library of the Rev. Edward Duke, of 
Lake House, a MS. copy of which is in the possession of Mr. T. 
Baverstock Merriman, of Marlborough. 
The title-page of this work is as follows:— 
“Take heed in time, 
or, 
A briefe Relation of many 
Harmes which have of late 
been done by fire in 
MARLBOROUGH, 
and in other places.” 
This Copy was drawne up and printed, on purpose for the world to take 
notice of, and be careful to prevent, the 
Danger of Fire. 
Written by L. P. 
London: Printed for F. Grom, and are to be sold at his shop in Snowhill, 1653. 
The work commences— 
‘A briefe description of the 
Towne of 
MARLBOROUGH, 
and of the Harmes that were there done, upon Thursday, the 28th of April, 
this present 
Year 1653,” 
It then proceeds as follows :— 
‘The famous and flourishing Town of Marlborough in Wiltshire, had of late 
two faire Parish Churches, one called by the name of St. Peter’s, and the other 
Church called by the name of St. Marie’s. There was likewise many faire 
streets and stately Buildings, especially one gallant street called the High 
Street, in which they kept their Markets, which Markets consisted of all kinds 
of necessarie Provisions, which was brought in far and near by the country 
people, and indeed it was a gallant place for Corn, Butter, Cheese, and such 
like Provisions, as any was in all the country. ‘The street wherein the Market 
was kept, is supposed to be in length and breadth full as large as Cheapside, 
and on both sides had many goodly shops, well filled with rich and costly com- 
modities, Silks, and Tafety Cloaths, and Lace, Linen and Woollen, Gold and 
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