By F. A. Car ring ton, Esq. 6 



a Chantry, founded in 1503, of which John Potter was the 

 Stypendarye (that is, the heir of the founder got a priest for as 

 little money as he could); and St. Catharine's Chantry, of which 

 Thomas Russell was the priest, and of which a part of the 

 foundation was a rent of twenty shillings "owte of a tenemente 

 called the Angell of the possessions of Geffery Daniell." In this 

 church there were also Obits (anniversary masses) for John 

 Bythewaye, John Awale, John Esten, James Loder, John Wynter, 

 and Robert Nuttynge. 



This Rectory is not mentioned in the Taxation of Pope Nicholas 

 (1288) nor is it to be found either in the Nonse roll (1341), or in 

 the Parliamentary Survey of Livings of 1650 which is in Lambeth 

 Palace; but in tbe Valor Ecclesiasticus of King Henry 8, (1534), 

 vol. 2, p. 150, the value is stated to be twelve pounds a 3'ear, and 

 Thomas Blundell to be the Rector. 



St. Mary's Church. — This is said to be a Vicarage, but it ie not 

 known who was or is the Rector, but in the Sarum Institutions 

 (edited by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart.), there is an entry under the 

 date of 1316, that John Wetwang was instituted to the Vicarage 

 of St. Mary, Marlborough, on the presentation of Raymond de 

 Fargis, Dean of Salisbury, and in the Valor Ecclesiasticus of Henry 

 8 (vol. 2, p. 150), the Vicarage of St. Mary in Marlborough is 

 valued at ten pounds thirteen shillings and fourpence, and Richard 

 Bromflette is stated to be the Vicar.^ 



This Living is not mentioned either in Pope Nicholas's taxation 

 (1288), the Nonae Roll (1341), or in the Parliamentary survey of 

 1650. 



In this church there were a Chantr}'^, a Jesus service, and another 

 Chantry of the foundation of Foster and Pengryve ; and Obits for 



' In the "Liber Evidentiarum " (a small folio volume of copies of Charters 

 &c., from Henry II. to Queen Elizabeth) preserved in the Registry at Sarum, is 

 the following entry relating to Marlborough " Carta de Ordiuacone Yicar 

 perpetuu et ecclie de Merlberg et de annu solut eeclie Sar. a. d. 1238, which 

 shows that Marlborough was either a perpetual vicarage or curacy at that date. 

 By this deed the Bishop [Robert Bingham] orders 20 shillings to be paid to the 

 Dean and Chapter of Sarum towards the finding of a wax light by the hand of 

 the Dean, which light shall burn in the Choir of [the Cathedral of] Sarum every 

 day and night at matins and at vespers until the Mass. 



