536 Chantries, Obits, &c, in olden days. 



Deverell (Kingston) Chapel of St. Andrew, x. 275. 



Devizes. Church of St. John the Baptist. Richard Cardmaker, 56 n. 23 d . 

 value £6 3s. 4J. and John Cardmaker, value £3 3*. Ad. x. 275 — 276. 

 A chauntry in perpetuity endowed with houses in the parish, given to 

 Mayor and brethren to find a Priest to celebrate at St. Leonard's 

 Altar, temp. Ric. II. See Mr. E. Kite's Report to Devises Council, 

 1909. 1 R. Cardmaker's Chauntry is described as being within the 

 Chapel of St. John Bapt. in the parish of St. Mary. x. 276. 



The whole of the Town Ditch was given to provide a chaplain to 

 pray for the Souls of all the departed, in St. John's Church. Patent 2 

 Jac. I., 2 April, 1610. E. Kite, u.s. 



J. Fawkener (c. 1430) gave a house in East Street in perpetual alms 

 to celebrate for his soul and that of Edith his wife. Pat. i, Jac. L, 

 1610. (E. Kite, Report, 1909). 



(Donor unknown). Two little closes of pasture, \\ acres, in the 

 Green Ward of Marlborough. (E. Kite, 1909.) 



The Free Chapel of St. John the Baptist in the Borough of Devizes. 



58 n. 73 (A.D. 1548). 59, JSTos. 22—25 ; and 54. Apparently described as 

 " St. John the Baptist's Chapel in St. Mary's Devizes, for one chaplain," 

 rent (cir. 1547) in Mayor's hands 53s. 2d. ; 56 n. 44. 



* Hospital of St. John Bapt. in Devizes. The King granted the 



lepers in Devizes a fair on St. Denys' Eve and Feast, in A.D. 1207. 



Close Roll 9 John, m. 6. Lands in Devizes, Roundway, Rowde, 

 and Stert. (E. Kite.) In patronage of the Town. C.M.H. 



W.I. 12, 18, " prioratus, hospitalis"; W.I. 11, 191, " hosjiitalis S. 

 Jo. JBaptiste " ; W.I. 158, " cantaria hospitalis. 



Church of B. V. Mary. 56 n. 23 cf. 58 n. 40 (?). John Coventre the 



Elder (Mayor, 1398 and 1414). At the Altar of our Lady at the East 

 end of the South Aisle : endowment 11 tenements and gardens mostly 

 in this parish and 3j acres in Wick Field (E. Kite, 1909) for 1 chaplain , 

 salary paid, £8 2*. 2c?. ; spent on repairs of tenements in Parish of St. 

 John, £6 8*. 2d. 56 n. 23 b. 



J. Coventre, the younger, Mayor 1436, endowment 32 houses and 

 tenements in borough and 32 acres of land in West Field, Wick Field, 

 Little Swybathe (in Roundway Park) and Parklands. E. Kite, 1909. 

 For 1 chaplain Salary £9 10s. 2d. 56 n. 23a. W. Coventre, 16 houses 

 and cottages to provide a priest's salary £6 6s. 6d- eire. 1546 — 7. 56. 

 n. 23 c. Also to sustain 4 almswomen. E. Kite, 1909. 



N.B. Almshouse at North Entrance of St. John Bapt. Churchyard 



1 For Mr. Kite's earlier notes on Devizes Churches and Chantries see 

 vol. ii., 213, etjyassim. Canon Jackson observed in 1867 (x., 276) that verbal 

 error in the old documents may be the cause of some difficulty and doubts 

 with which the task of identification of the chantries is beset. When the 

 chantries were dissolved there appear to have been three priests besides one 

 Ro. Sheriff, perhaps a chantry clerk. The priests, as Mr. Kite shows, were 

 T. Hancock, of J. Cardmaker's Chantry ; Robert Plade (Peade) of Free 

 Chapel St. John Bapt., and Philip Tyler, Curate of St. John's. 



