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



To the mayor for distributing the same 5 o 



(Agnes his wife and Eichard his son executors.) 



Bob. Weare, alias Browne, had been Mayor of Marlborough, 1st 

 December, 1562. 



(date wanting) Henry Cusse (of Swindon) left money to be a 

 stock for ever for relief of poor people, at Easter. 

 His wife Elionor executrix 16 



1615 Thomas Eay of Sarum. Income of houses in " Gig- 

 18 June. ging streete " (Gigant St.) Salisbury, to poor 

 (proved clothiers in Trowbridge, Chippenham, Westbury, 



15 Nov.) and Marlborough (now administered by Trustees 

 and, since the cessation of the local cloth manu- 

 facture, applied to educational purposes, under 

 an order of the Charity Commissioners). 



(?...) Mr. Biggs, left by will for Good Friday money 200 



" Good Friday Bents," according to the Beport of the Charity 



Commission ( Wilts Charities i. (North Wilts) p. 708; a.d. 1908), 



now amount to £1 17s. 2d. per annum, and are drawn from houses 



in Marlborough, viz.. No. 2, Benin's Hill; 140, High Street 



(formerly " the Marlborough Coffee House," the King's Arms 



public house, and from the Crown (formerly a house and malthouse) 



8, Kingsbury Street. Also the sum of 6s. Sd., payable by the 



churchwardens of St. Beter and St. Baul, Marlborough. It was 



paid, e.g. in 1825. Some other rents formerly paid have been lost 



about the time of King George III., or earlier. 



1626 ") Kobert Elys left to trustees as a stock to be lent for 

 30 Jan.) 2 years, freely, to any poor man of Marlborough 10 



1636 \ Andrew Rowsell left as a stock to be lent to the 



May J poor, freely 20 



1640 Anne Payne, relict of Rob. Payne (late of the 

 Liberty of the Tower of London) left to the Com- 

 pany of Goldsmiths on trust to pay £5 yearly to 

 the poor of the parishes in Marlborough. (This 

 bequest is now vested in the official trustees). At 

 the discretion of the Incumbents and Church- 

 wardens. 5 



1 678 Chr. Willoughby of Bishopstone, esq., gave £200 to 

 the mayor and burgesses, to be chargeable for a 

 payment of £8 per annum to the poor of the 

 parish of Wyly. To the poor of Marlborough, 

 yearly 2 



