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



1526 John Bytheway 1 To churchwardens of St. Peters 

 1 Aug. and their successors for evermore, his tenement 



in the parish of St. Mary which he bought of T. 

 Fryse, yearly rent 42s. 4<i. to maintain for ever 

 an obit in the church of St. Peter to the expense 

 of 7s. Ad., whereof to the parson for overseeing 4 



The churchwardens accomptants 4 



The rest amongst pore people 6 8 



The resydue to the use of the church of St. Peter 1 15 

 John Bytheway Also all his tenement lying in the 

 Marsheward. which he bought of Rob. Lovell of 

 the yearly rent of 16 



towards the sustentation of a chappelen in Jesus 

 Service to the th'entent that he and his friends 

 might be prayed for evermore. Jone his wife, 

 executrix 



1527 William Serle The profitts of 2 tenements or bur- 

 1 April gages in Kyngesburystreat in Marlebrough,' 



betwen the tenement cornered of Robert (sic) 

 Fryse of the south partie and of voide ground 

 late Margaret Chadertons of the north partie, to 

 the vse of Jesus service in the church of St. 

 Peter's to the mayntenaunce of the fraternytie, 2 

 and to fynde an obit to the expenses of 7 



And also 3 tenements in M. whereof 2 lyen in the 

 Greneward betwene the ten', of Rawlen Cley of 

 the W. partie and ten', of Alice Fermer wydowe 

 of the E. partie ; the other ten. called the 

 Kyllyng house lyeth in Kyngesbury Streat to 

 the use of Jesus Service in the Church of St. 

 Maries in Marlborough to the maintenance of 

 the fraternitie and to fynde an obit, to the 

 expenses of 4 



And if the priest reciteth not his (W. Serle's) name 

 every fryday but ceaseth one moneth to do the 



1 J. Bytheway was Mayor of Marlborough in 1512 and 1525. 

 - There was a Fraternity of the Blessed Name of Jesus in St. Peter's and 

 also in St. Mary's parish. It was to part of the former endowment of the 

 fraternity in St. Peters (as I infer from the mention of Mr. Fryse as neigh- 

 bour) that a lease, granted by the Corporation to W. Carver, 19th Aug. 

 1575 (17th Eliz.) incidentally refers : — " a tenement in Kyngesbury Streate, 

 between a tenement (late J. Fryse) of the south part, and a tenement 

 sometyme pertayning to the Fraternitie of the Blessed Name of Jesus of 

 the north parte." Corporation Survey Book of Leases. The Chantry Cer- 

 tificates mention Our Lady's Gild at Aldbourne, St. Catherine's at 

 Chippenham, The Tailors' and Weavers' Fraternities at Sarum, and Corpus 

 Christi Brotherhedde at Trowbridge. (Wilts Arch. Mac/., xii. 373 — 9 ; xxii. 

 318—19). 



