552 Marlborough Chantries, and the supply of Clergy in olden days. 



the chancel there, 2 sheep ; to St. Stephen's Light there, the like ; to 

 each of my little ones (filiolis) 1 6d. ; to each parish clerk there, to pray, 

 6d. ; to other chaplains present at my obsequies and mass on the clay 

 of my burial, to pray, 6d. ; to the Bed(e)man, there, 4d. ; to the vicar 

 aforenamed on condition that he shall say six sequences of the holy 

 Gospel 2 at six crosses in Bishopstone and Boleborg, or at least in the 

 churchyard of the former, 12c?. ; to build a tower over the church of 

 Bishopstone, so soon as the parishioners begin the re-building, 20 marcs 

 sterling (Dominick and Alice Uphill, Agnes wife of Bob. Pole, Joan 

 wife of J. Crabbelane) ; to Tho. and Alison Stabbere, the tenement now 

 inhabited by Bo. Pole, which I bought of late from J. Scammel, hattere, 

 and the shops, &c. to find a chaplain to celebrate for my soul in Bishop- 

 stone Church for seven years next after my decease. Likewise my 

 tenement in Boucherrewe (Butcher-row) Sarum. To all who attend 

 my obit, sufficient meat and drink ; to every poor man at my burying, 

 one obley {unum oblatum panem) ; to the vicar of Bishopstone by the 

 space of 38 years next after my decease, to say two masses each week 

 for my soul and all christen souls, viz. on Wednesdays and Fridays, 2d. 

 a week from my cottage in le Thorp ; to the fabric of the church of 

 Fallardestone (Falstone, where the will was made) 2s. ; and two 

 sheep ; to the Holy Bood Light (S. Crucis) of Bishopstone, 40d. ; to T. 

 Stabbere, a silver cup with a cover, and a brass pot with cover ; to 

 St. Anne's Light of Flammerdestone (Flamstone, in Bishopstone), 20d. ; 

 Bobert, servant to Dominick Uphulle, 2s. ; to Bishopstone Church, 

 a bell, value 22 marcs ; residue to my wife Agnes." (Tropenell 

 Cartulary, i., 220—23). 



About forty years earlier Agnes, wife of J. Cammel, by her will, 

 proved 31st August, 1364, bequeaths 



My soul to God ; my body to the ground, to be buried in the litton 

 of the church of St. Thomas, Sarum ; to the fabric of B. Mary Sarum, 

 40d. ; the Fraternity of the High Cross in the said (cathedral) church, 

 40d. ; the fabrick of St. Thomas, 10s. ; the high altar of that (parish) 

 church, for my tithes forgotten or ill paid, 5s. ; the Fraternity of the 

 High Cross in the said (parish) church, I2d. ; the parish chaplain there, 

 6d. ; the deacon, 3d. ; the sexton (sacriste), 2d. ; sir T. Merden chaplain 

 2s. ; to every chaplain, not already named, who shall celebrate in the 



1 filiolis : — probably, godchildren. 

 2 quod idem vicarius sex sequencias sancti Evangelii, ad sex cruces infra 

 Busshopestone et Boleborgh, vel saltern infra cimiterium de Busshopestone 

 dicat. As it was sometimes the custom to read the passiones dominicce, or 

 Gospel accounts of our Lord's sufferings and death extracted from one or 

 more of the Evangelists (Leofric Missal), 1986) beside the dying bed of one 

 who had received the viaticum, so this testator desired six holy gospels, i.e., 

 1 >assages selected for use at certain masses, to be read for him after his 

 decease. Four such lections, one from each evangelist, are prefixed to the 

 Salisbury Cathedral Processional, MS. 148, and other MSS. See my Salis- 

 bury Ceremonies (Cambridge University Press, 1901), p. 11 



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