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



And " about a diriges. " 1 3 



Margaret, his wife, executrix. 



Robt. Warmwell, citizen of Salisbury, whose will, made in 1447, 

 has been noted on p. 527, directed that a gown with a hood of white 

 cloth should be given to each of 3,500 persons on the day of his 

 burial. Also that a hundred shirts and 100 shifts and 100 pair 

 of leather shoes should be distributed among the most indigent 

 men and women. Tropencll CarUdary, i., 236, 239. 



1546 James More, ) From a mead in Newbury Street 

 30 April glover ) purchased of Mr. Poole, 6s. 8d., 



for the donor, Ja. More's obit and for the soul's 

 health of his wife Elizabeth, in St. Peter & 

 Pawle's Church. To the 5 priests 1 8 



The offering 5 



Wax [of tapers around the herse] 4 

 The bedroll [for mention of their names in bidding 



the beads] 4 



The Clerk 3 



The Sexton 2 



The singing children 2 



The belman 1 



The mayor 4 



The oldest churchwarden 4 

 The residue to poore people to see it done 2 3 



The details of the obit are derived from a copy of James More's 

 will entered on p. 1 of the Churchwardens' Book of St. Peter and 

 St. Paul, . Marlborough, where the accounts begin in 1555, as 

 mere balance sheets in a summary form, first in Latin, down to 1558, 

 and then in English, from 1561 to 1569. They continue more 

 fully (in English) from 1570. 



The endowments of such obits as the foregoing one, devised by 

 James More in 1 546, were confiscated by the Commissioners to 

 the Augmentation Office in the following year. Chantries, with 

 Freechapels and Colleges of Priests — those of Oxford and Cam- 

 bridge very narrowly escaping and being specially exempted — 

 were given to the Crown by the Act of 1 Edw. VI., cap. 14, in 

 the Parliament which began in Feb., 1547. 



Consequently the bequests of later date assumed a different 

 form. Thus we find the following : — 



