Bij the Rev Chr. Wordsworth. 553 



said parish church on the day of my burial, 4d. ; to the friars preachers 

 of Fisherton 2 trentals (tricennalia) ' to celebrate for my soul ; to the 

 friars minor of Salisbury, two trentals ; to distribute among the poor 

 on the day of my burial, 40s. ; &c, from a tenement, shops, &c, in 

 Mynsterstrete in New Sarum (ubi supra, i. 209). 



In the Valor JEcclesiasticus taken under the authority of K. 

 Henry VIII., 1 Feb., 1534 — 5, in the 26th year of his reign, we 

 find this record among benefices in the Diocese of Sarum, County 

 of Wiltes', Archdeaconry of North Wiltes' and Decanat' de Marle- 

 burgh. 



The Sural Deanery has no money value. 



The Hospital of St. John Baptist, hard by ("juxta") Marl- 

 borough (which had its own chapel for Divine Service where the 

 Grammar School now stands, and paid 2s. rent to the Queen) was 

 then valued at £7 Os. Ad. per annum gross. The oblations in 

 the hospital chapel were valued at 5s. The Master was Ro. 

 Richardson. The (Gilbertine) Priory of St. Margaret (of the order 

 of Sempringham) in Marleburgh, and the Priory of Holy Trinity 

 in Eston (of the Trinitarian Order for Redemption of Captives) 

 were, at that date, both under one prior named Roger Marshall, 

 and were valued respectively at £38 19s. 2d. and £55 14s. 4rf., 

 gross. 



The value of rectories and vicarages in the Rural Deanery are 



next stated, as well as those of a few chapels and chantries, these 



being : — 



Clear Value, 

 ii. p. 150] Canteria t de Chute. Thoma Bridgis, canterista 3 6 4 

 t " Canteria " (for Cantaria) so in Valor Eccl., passim. 



,, de Kamsbury. Thomas Hull - „ 7 12 3£ 



Capella S. Martini in Chesbury. Johanne Ap 

 Man', capellano 2 13 4 



ii. p. 151] Canteria in Shaldeborn, cum cura ibidem. 



Michael Toppyng canterista ac curato 3 2 



1 A trental — more properly styled in latin " trigintafo " (or " trentale," 

 Hereford Missal, ed. W. G. Henderson, 1874, p. 436) — was a set of 30 masses 

 (three for each of ten great mysteries of religion) the saying whereof for 

 deliverance of a soul from the pains of purgatory was said to have been 

 commended by B. Gregory, the Pope. Gregorii Magni, Dialog, iv. 55. 



2 The Ramsbury chantry priest paid Is. 8cZ. yearly for the poor on the 

 morrow of Palm Sunday (Valor Eccl. ii., 147. The Vicar, Ric. Arche, 

 received £9 13s. 



