546 Marlborough Chantries and the supply of Clergy in olden days. 



Valor : £12 (Decima 3s.) ; £30 [i.e. the value in 1668.] 



Marlburgh. Vicaria S. Marine. Selk Hundred. Patronus, De- 

 canus Sarum. N.B. Humf. [Henchman] Episcopus contulit pleno 

 jure [Ben. Lovell, clerico, A.D. 1663], Vide Registrum Institutionum, 

 fol. 15, 1 tamen pertinet ad Decanum. [No persons " having interest " 

 named.] 



Clerici : (" Joh. Rowland " struck out, because, in 1668, he " remov'd " 

 to A [i.e. Cricklade R. Deanery] Bishopston vicarage. Vide p. 16 — 

 " cessit " (added and entry cancelled). " Jonathan Heskins " (struck out' 2 

 also, either after his cession in 1677, or previously because) "suspended 

 for marrying without license, Apr., 1669." (This entry also cancelled). 

 Cornelius Yate Instit. Sept. 19, 1677. 



Valor : £10 : 09s. : Old. Decima, 2s. l%d.) hodie [ar. 1668] £30. 



"Preshute Vicarage, in Hundred of Selk. Infra peculiar' jurisdic. 

 de Marlburgh (Register of Bp. Campegius, f. 37). Nominat episcopus. 

 Praesentat Gardianus Choristarum. Ordinatio Vicariae, Regist. Mortival 

 inter Institutiones f. 122. Appropriatio Eccleshe ibid. f. 141. Ordi- 

 natio Vicariae, f. 264. Compositio inter Priorem de Clatford, et 

 Rectorem p [arochiae : — Registr.] Langton' f. 26. Vide Ordinationem 

 pro augmentatione Vicariae, 7 Octob. 1559. Lib. Statut. p. 36. Aug- 

 mentatio Vicariae, Registr. Jewel, p. 1. Item DcLvenant, f . 13. 1634. 



(Resident in the place) : Alex. Thomas, de Savernacle Parke, prope 

 Preshute. 



(Clergy) : Tho. Milesf (instit. 1662). Rector of Pool (1 Keynes, near 

 Malmesbury) [1662—1683] Tho. Dubbernel, Curat.f J. Dyer 



licensed. Apr. 11, 1676; Joseph Miles (instit.) Dec. 5, 1683; Ant, 

 Tate (instit.) 6 July, 1685. 



Valor, £8. [Tenths 2.?.] £40 in Bp. Duppa's time (1641) ; £80 (after 

 the Restoration)." 



We may conclude from Bishop Ward's notes that in his time 

 (1667 — 89) there were no assistant clergy for Marlborough itself, 

 but the two incumbents were in sole charge, one at St. Peter's and 

 one at St. Mary's likewise. There was a curate licensed for Pieshute ; 

 but this was, presumably, occasioned by the fact that the Vicar of 

 that day held in plurality a rectory on the border of the county. 



1 1 do not know the meaning of these obeli. I suppose they were a 

 private mark, such as Dr. Pope assures us his friend Bishop Seth Ward 

 used in his account of his clergy. Some of his notes in cipher I have been 

 able to read. 



1 Cf. Tnstitt. Wilton., Phillipps, ii., 26. 



- It appears from Tnstitt. Wilt., ii., 34, that Jonathan Heskins ultimately 

 resigned St. Mary's Vicarage. He had been instituted in 1668. 



