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



John Hadnot of ye Devize 1 , 5s. Id. ; more for wyne, 2s. 6d. ; in 1574 — 5 

 for 3 quarts of muskadyne, 2s. ; for a Service Booke. 9s. ; and in 1579 

 — 80, for bread and wyne on Cristmas daie, 2s. 2d. ; for bread and 

 wyne ye first sondaie of the yeare, 6d. ; for bread and wyne for Mar- 

 garet Reves, 3d. 



This last; was presumably for communion of a sick woman. The 

 cost of wine (muscadine) was apparently 8d. a quart. 



In the year 1782 the population of St. Peter's parish was 1109. 

 In 1801, there were 1245 souls in St. Peter's, only 1122 (at that 

 date) in St. Mary's, which did not begin until civ. 1815 to have 

 the larger population ; and in Preshute, 618. In 1548 the town 

 had contained 1056 communicants. 



Part II. — Marlborough Chantries. 



The late Mr. Joseph Milburn (Mayor of Marlborough in 1883-4 

 and 1898) once propounded to me the question, What was the 

 history of the house on the north side of Marlborough High Street, 

 No. 99, opposite Lloran House, and still bearing the name of the 

 then occupier, "James A. Pope, agricultural implement maker, 

 blacksmith, &c, Chantry Works"? "Was it the House of the 

 Fraternity of the Blessed Jesus ? " My answer was, that I believed 

 it would be found to have been the Chautiy House of the stipendary 

 priest or priests of the chantry or chantries in the Parish Church 

 of St. Peter and St. Paul, and that one of these was the chantry of 

 St. Katharine, and the other the altar used for the Jesus mass. 

 Mr. Milburn had the advantage of an intimate knowledge of 

 Marlborough corporation documents, while I had the custody of 

 our Parish Church accounts. 



I think that the light thrown upon the subject by Mr. C. E. 

 Ponting's careful survey and admirable drawings of the premises 2 



1 See above (p. 536) Index of Chantries, 8fc. (under " Devizes "), and cf . 

 p. 561 below. It appears from a lease to W. Church, 28th February, 

 1666, entered in the Marlborough Corporation Survey Book, that the land 

 of the Mayor and Burgesses of the Devizes was situate to the east of " a 

 messuage lately erected, called the Katherine Wheele " [" The Cricketer's 

 Inn " in the present day, and in earlier times, variously, " The George and 

 Dragon," " The Masons' Arms," " The Feeemasons' Arms," and " The 

 Barley-mow," or "The Wheatsheaf "], No. 27, Kingsbury Street. 

 3 Which follow this paper in the Magazine- 



