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(10th December, 1449) in furtherance of her design. Ifc permitted 

 her to assign to the chaplain six messuages, two tofts, 6 marks 

 rent, and appurtenances in Marlborough, Oggeborn S. Georgii, to 

 the extent of 7 marks, 9s. 8d. (as 2 parts of the endowment specified 

 in 1476) and leaving her 4 marks, 3s. 8d., within the limit already 

 prescribed. It was not until the thirteenth year of K. Edward IV. 

 (10th April, 1474), when it is believed that the new parish Church 

 had been completed, that the widow appointed W. Smyth as 

 chantry priest, to say mass daily at St. Katherine's altar therein, 

 and to bid prayers (Paternoster and A vc Maria) at the first lavatory 

 of the mass after the offertory, and recite the Psalm De Prqfundis 

 (cxxix. Vulgate=cxxx) , also to keep the year's mind of her hus- 

 band's death, with Placebo and Dirge (evensong and mattins of the 

 Dead) on Monday after Martinmas in Winter (November 11th): 

 to distribute a dole of 6s. 8d. to poor folk attending the anniversary : 

 to keep one of the keys of the chest containing evidences, orna- 

 ments, and jewels (jocalia) belonging to the chantry, the second 

 key being in custody of the patron, or some fit man deputed by 

 him. The endowment consisted of two messuages in Man ton (in 

 Preshute parish) and one in Ockebourne Moysy (Ogbourne Mey- 

 sey, in the parish of St. Andrew), seven tenements in Marlborough, 

 ten acres of arable land called Stars Hill, and one acre of meadow 

 in Starsmead.within the demesne of Barton (adjoining Marlborough 

 Castle), one little meadow near the Bayly (in the parish of St. 

 Peter and St. Paul), one meadow by Blyndelane (Hyde Lane or 

 Sun Lane, northward of the High Street) formerly Walter, Lord 

 Hungerford's, ten stalls (viz., two for clothiers, two for tanners, 

 two for butchers, and four for fishmongers, there being of old time 

 several fishermen plying their calling on the Kennet and in the 

 Marsh, &c), 20s. rent out of a tenement lately the abode of John 

 Brydde (presumably her husband), 26s. 8d. rent of a tenement 

 where J. Michell then abode, 3s. Ad. rent from Nicholas Butcher's 

 tenement, 6s. 8d. from Ric. Chaundeler's, 6s. 8d. from Walter 

 Moyne's, 6s. 8d. from J. Spenser's, 8s. from T. Smyth's, 6s. 8d. 

 from the neighbour of E. Grenley, and 4s. from Eic. Coles'. Also, 

 her own pasture, called Collingysdown in the parish of St. George 



