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



Chantry Priests of a Perpetual Chantry of St. Katharine called 

 Brydd's Chantry, at the Altar of St. Katherine in the Church 

 of St. Peter and St. Paul, Marlborough. See List, pp. 585 — 6. 



There was also a Jesus Altar, which is said (T know not on 

 what authority) to have been on the south side of the body of St. 

 Peter's Church, St. Katharine's Altar being on the north. There 

 v/as also an altar of the Ever Blessed Tiinity. The Jesus Service 

 (to be said apparently on Fridays) was endowed by J. Bower, 29th 

 August, 1519, who left by will 20s., the yearly rent of the " Angel," 

 for that purpose; by J. Barnstaple, 21st Jan., 1521 — 2; J. 

 Bytheway, who bequeathed 16s., rent of a tenement in the Marsh, 

 1st August, 1526 ; W. Searle, who gave rent from Kingsbury St., 

 for the fraternity of Jesus Mass in St. Peter's (besides the service 

 n St. Mary's), 1st April, 1527. The endowments were valued at 

 £5 7s. 4d. yearly, and the goods and ornaments at £5 4s. 2d. 

 The chantry priest was J. Burdsey, aged 65 years, hi the reign of 

 Henry VIII. (See above, p. 566.) 



1518. J. Pottes, aged 44 years, stipendiary priest (apparently 

 of Our Lady's Service in St. Peter's) under a deed dated 5th July, 

 19° H. VII. [A.D. 1504]. The rents from Hermitage close and 

 divers tenements and gardens amounted to £8 16s. 9d: Chantry 

 Certificate, No. 58., Art. 47. (See above, p. 567.) 



In the 2nd year of King Edward VI., 15th June, 1548, the 

 chantry goods were valued and sold. 



Some counties (such as Dorset) are so fortunate as to have pre- 

 served in detail the records of the goods pillaged from Parish 

 Churches under the authority of King Edward VI. in 1548. In 

 Wilts, we have for Marlborough and most other places, merely a 

 meagre statement about bells and chalices left to the parish in 

 churchwardens' hands, and a bare statement of the weight of silver 

 confiscated by the Crown, without further particulars. The com- 

 missioners in 1553 retained 16oz. of plate for the King, and delivered 

 back into the hands of W. Andrews andPycliard Chaynye, church- 

 wardens of St. Peter and St. Paul's, a chalice weighing 12oz., for 

 the use of " Marlebroughe seynte peter." There had, however, 

 been an earlier pillage projected in the time of King Henry VI II. 



