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



Yearley value 37s. 6cZ., "whereof vijs. vjcZ. to the Kynge's college in 

 Cambridge : and so remaynyth clere, xxxs." 



" Mem. The laste Incumbente dyed in Marche in the xxxv th yere of 

 the reigne of Kinge Henry the viij' h [A.D. 1544] ever syth whose death 

 the ffermer hath retayned the sayd rente in his handis, and is redy to 

 answere the same." [The Rev. Mackenzie E. C. Walcott notes that 

 there was a Chantry House at Ogbourne St. George. Wilts Arch. Mag., 

 xii., 379. J 



Wills and Bequests for pious uses, from the Marlborough 



Municipal Survey Book. (Cf. p. 554-, above.) 

 1502 Robert Foster 1 by will bequeathed to the Mayor of 

 26 July. Marlborough and others " all my lands in Marl- 

 broughe and Ellcott, to fynde a preist to pray for 

 me and my freinds within our Lady Church, be- 

 fore the fygure of our Lady of Pity- yearly for • 

 evermore 6 3 4 



At the testator and freinds yearly obit 10 



To the Mayor of M. whatsoever he be or shall be 

 . . . to the intent that he shall see my obitt 

 kept and performed 2 



(Rob. Richardson, vicar, W. Fisher and H. Pen- 

 gryffe, executors.) 

 1518 Rob. Somerfield gave land called " Chymanadg 

 8 June. close " to discharge the town henceforth of 

 chy manage rent and charges levied on " vittail- 

 lers " and carriers 

 From Cowlebridge Close, to repair the bridge called 



Cowlebridge 

 Two tenements in Kingsbury Street to J. Bythe- 

 way mayor, T. Blundell, parson of St. Peter's, • 

 and Ric. Dyckenson, churchwarden, to provide 

 his obit in St. Peter's Church, as follows 

 To six priests 2 



For oblations 6 



Waxe 1 6 



Clerk 3 



Sexton 2 



1 Rob. Foster (or Forster) was Mayor of Marlborough in 1494. Mr. Mil- 

 burn observed, " Poor Foster ! The Mayors of Marlborough never think of 

 him, but use his property for easement of the Rates." Henry Pengrife, an 

 executor, whose chantry was combined with Foster's in St. Mary's Church, 

 Marlborough, was Mayor in February, 1507. 



- Our Lady of Pity, elsewhere called " Our Lady of the Pew," was &x>ieta, 

 or representation of the Sorrow of the Blessed Virgin with the Body of our 

 Saviour, as taken down from the Cross, laid across her knees. 



