valet 



tlare 



£7 : 11 



: 4 



6 : 18 



: 4 



30 : 9 



: 6 



12 : 



: 



10 : 9 



: 4 



8 : 



: 



By the Rev. Chr. Wordsworth. 547 



From the Valor Mcclesiaslicus of 1535 (ii., 147 — 152) we gather 

 the following particulars : — 



Decano decanatus valet per annum nichil. 



J. Gralyo, cantarista cantarie S. Katrine 

 Ro. Richardson, magister Hosp. S. Johannis Bapt. 



juxta Marleburgh 

 Roger Marshall, prior S. Margarete 

 T. Blundell, rector eccl. S. Petri 

 Ric. Bromflette, vicar B. Marie 

 Jac. Bayle, vicar de Preshute 



(The value of Preshute was altered in 1544 to £9 13s.) 

 Thus a total of six clergy is shown for Marlborough and Preshute 

 in the 26th year of K. Hen. VIII. 



Looking further back in history, we find the list of clergy and 

 others cited for an ecclesiastical visitation at Marlborough by Master 

 Pioger Churche, Doctor of Decrees, Commissioner for Cardinal 

 Morton, sede Sariun vacante. 4th Nov., 1499. (Lambeth, Misc. 

 Pioll, No. 1453.) Here we notice: — 



Master W. Jonys Rector of St. Peter, Marlebrugh, 



Master W. Bowyar, chantry priest there. 



(The Dean of Salisbury, proprietor at St. Mary's.) 



Sir Robert Richardson, Vicar at St. Mary's. 



Sir Thomas Barett, chantry priest there. 



(The choristers of Salisbury proprietors at Presshutt.) 



(Thomas Fyssher farmer of the Rectory at Presshutt.) 



Master W. Ashbrigge, chaplain at St. Martin's (" est f rater" i.e., " He 

 is a friar." ' He is admonished by the Lord Commissary that he shall 

 no further serve the cure there. Four parishioners declare that the 

 chancel of St. Martin's is in decay [" cadurux "J. The said church of St. 

 Martin has been vacant for 8 years ; it appertains to the nomination of 

 the Bishop of Salisbury, and is worth by the year £4.) 



Sir John Walker, chaplain at St. John's hospital or priory, Marleburgh. 



This gives a total of six clergy, including the Chaplain of St. 

 Martin's, in 1499. 



From the chantry certificates of 1545 — 48 we may infer that, 

 hist before the abolition of the chantries, there were, besides the 



1 I give this as the simplest expansion and explanation of the contracted 

 " Est fr." of the original M.S. at the Record Office whence Mr. J. Milburn 

 obtained the transcription which his son kindly lent me. 



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