By the Rev. Chr. Wordsworth. 545 



In the foregoing list, it must not necessarily be presumed that 

 a chantry or chapel was at any of the places named, unless it is so 

 stated. Some places {e.g., "Allington," " Assheton Steeple," &c, &c.) 

 are entered here merely because they supplied some endowment to 

 a chantry in some other parish. 



There are at present in Marlborough two Parish Churches, one 

 at each end of the High Street, while within the extended limits 

 of the borough are now included a portion of the area of the ancient 

 country parish of Preshute and the whole of Marlborough College, 

 which has its own Chapel of St. Michael and All Angels, built 

 upon the boundary line of two parishes, viz., Preshute (St. George 

 the Martyr's), and St. Peter and St. Paul's, Marlborough. The 

 staff of clergy of the Church of England thus employed consists 

 (March, 1910) of ten in priests' orders, viz.: of St. Peter and St. 

 Paul's, Rector and Assistant Curate ; of St. Mary the Virgin, Vicar 

 and (occasionally for a few months) Assistant Priest ; of Preshute, 

 Vicar (who also does the work of Chaplain to the Union Work- 

 house) ; of Marlborough College, Chaplain and four other Assistant 

 Masters in holy orders, one of whom is Chaplain ministering to the 

 College household. 



In Bishop Seth Ward's time, according to his " Notitia," begun 

 in Oct., 1667 (p. 13), continued soon after he had come into 

 residence, which was on 20th May, 1668, and posted up until 

 1685, or later, there are the following entries : — 



1 Maklbukgh. (Majorem habens, et Burgenses) Rectoria S. Petri 



Selk Hundred. Patronus, Episcopus Sarum. Compositio inter Rec- 



torem et Fratres S. Marias de monte Carmel. 2 Registr. Mortival, 96. 



Fundatio Bride's Chantry. Beauchamp Registr. Episc., pars, i., 181. 

 Personae habentes Inter esse [i.e., principal inhabitants, having 



interest] ; Jeffry Daniel, J.P., Isaack Burges, J. P. 



Clerici : Nich. Profit. 3 dead [1669]. Joshua Sacheveril, Instit. Jun. 



8, 1669; preached at visitation, 1671. (Succeeded by) Farwell Perry, 



Instit., 23 Jan., 1684. 



1 Notitia Sethi Ward Episcopi Sarisburiensis, cir. 1668-85, p. 15=230 — 

 31, in Transcript penes Decanum et Capituhim. 



1 The Priory, south of the High Street, now the property of the Rev. J. P. 

 Cummins. 



3 " Mr. Nicholas Proffitt, minister of this parish near 40 yeares, buried 

 March 18th [1669]." Parish Register of Burials, St. Peter's, Marlborough. 

 He had been one of the Westminster Assembly of Divines. 



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