580 Marlborough Chantries tend the supply of Clergy in olden days. 



Imprimis. A payre of vestments 



Item, a cloth to hang before the aultar, of yelow and redd saye 



Item, two aultar cloths, the one dyaper, the other playne. 



Item, two paxes, the one of tymber and glasse, the other of brasse. 



Item, two cruetts of tynne. 



One corporas case of old black velvet. 



Two candelstyks of brasse. 



Item, one old vestment of white fustian, and 



Two cloths of blewe satten. . 



Summa totalis, 5s. id. 

 Examined by Laurence Hyde, 



Deputy Surveyor to Sir John Thynne Knight. 



15 June, 2 Edw. VI. [1548]. To be paid all in hand. 1 



The stipendiary priest was John Pottes, aged 44, and his rents 



amounted to £8 16s. 9d., from which 12s. lid. was deducted for 



rent" of the premises to the Queenes Boroughe of Marlborowe, called 



the Ian gable." Also the endowments were chargeable for 40s. 



yerely toward the reparatyons of the sayd parish Churche." There 



was also at that time " Saynt Ivaterens Chauntre. Founded within 



the parishe Churche of saynt Peter in Marlborowe, Thomas Russel, 



of the age of 62 years, being Incumbente." The rents amounted 



to 57s. 4<:Z. from a tenement and garden " next vnto the Swanne," 



a garden " nyghe the towne cliche," two " shoppes in bucher-rowe," 



&c. One or more of these priests lived in the chantry house, now 



occupied by Mr. Pope, High Street. Thus there were four 



clergy here, in St. Peter and St. Paul's parish, including the 



Rector. In the whole town there were then three Churches 



(including St. Martin's, by the old yew tree), and " 1056 people 



which receyue the blessed Communion." The "Mayre and 



Commons " in vain besought the King's Council to permit the 



endowments to remain, because the clergy's " lyvingis be so small, 



and their cures so great." In St. Mary's there was in 1 545 the Vicar, 



the Foster and Pengryve Chantry Chaplain, and until then recent 



years the Master of St. John's Hospital, also within the memory 



of some of the older inhabitants one of the friars had served as 



incumbent at St. Martin's, a Church which was then beginning to 



be neglected. What number of persons in holy orders, besides 



the prior in either house, had been residing in that of the 



1 Lots 33 and 34. See Wilts. Arch. Mag., xxii., 329. 



