■By the Rev. Chr. Wordsworth. 579 



in Feb., 1546. It was not indeed directed against the high altar 

 or chancel of the Church, but it concerned the side altars in the 

 aisles wherever these were connected with endowed chantries. 

 Such was the case at both the Churches in Marlborough, at each 

 of which there was a " Jesus Service," with a mass said in one or 

 both of them on Fridays. 1 John Burdsey, aged 65, was "incum- 

 bent of Jesus Seruyce " in St. Peter's in 1548, and in 1550 be- 

 queathed the Hermytage and houses that he builded, for the use 

 of the poor. It had for endowment "one tenement and garden, 

 rent 13s. 4tf." ; two tenements " in Kingsbury strete " (the gift of 

 J. Bytheway, in 1526), rents, 16s. and 10s. ; the hermytage, with a 

 garden, called Moreforeste, rent, 6s. 8cl. ; and 7 acres and 1 yard 

 land in "a plotte of mede called Stokinforde" (in West Bedwin, 

 of J. Barstaple's bequest in 1521), rent 10s. 



The Goods and Ornaments of the Jesus Service were valued 

 at 104s. 2d. 



The "ornaments" for that service in June, 1548, were valued at 

 only 4s. 2d., and were as follows : — 



" Imprimis. A masse-boke, and payre of vestments of grene satten a 



Bruges 

 Item. One corporas-case, with a cloth. 

 2 alter clothes, 

 a payre of candelstyks 

 2 paxes, and 

 a bell 



King Henry died 28th Jan., 1547 ; but " the evil " which he had 

 done in coveting Church property "lived after him." 



At the instigation of John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, 

 King Edward VI. carried out the old king's design for plundering 

 the chantries, as he had already pillaged the monasteries, and the 

 abovementioned ornaments of the Jesus Service were sold, as one 

 among thirty-seven lots, to T. Chaffyne,of Mere, by Walter Mildmay 

 and Bobert Keilway, the Crown officers, 15th June, 1548. The 

 like was done to " Our Lady's Service in Seynt Peter's Church, which 

 had the following inventory : 



1 See the will of William Serle in 1527, at p. 572, above. 



2 Q 2 



