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



Masters, or Priors, of the Priory or Hospital of St. John. 



(presented by the Mayor and Burgesses — maior et vniversa fraternitas, 



sive communitas, burgensium). 



Circa 1266. Robert. (Abbrev. Placit., 51 Hen. iii.). 



1315. W. de Borehale, or Borhhulle. 



1318. Bic. de Wetwang, prior. 



1349. Walter Gibbs ; exchanged with 



1353. Nic. Perham. 



?13— . Ric. Syvet; resigned about 1417. Vicar of St. Mary's, 1384— 

 1414. 



1417. T. South. 



14 — . T. Smyth ; deceased about 1457. 



1457. W. "White ; deceased. 



1462. J. Browning. 



1502. W. Highway ; resigned. 



1506. T. Barrett ; deceased (Rector of Collingbourne Ducis, 1506). 



1510. Robert Richardson. He was apparently living in 1535 (see p. 

 547), and may, perhaps, have been the Master of this Hospital 

 who had died about 1548. (See p. 570.) He had been Vicar of 

 St. Mary's, Marlborough, 1495 — 1522. Rector of Collingbourne 

 Ducis, 1506—44. 



The Priory of Sb. John became a grammar school, after passing 

 through the hands of the Duke of Somerset. Views of the building 

 cir. 1550 and 1790 may be seen in the Council Chamber of Marl- 

 borough Town Hall. The " Garden City," recently built by three 

 of the former Assistant Masters of Marlborough College, bears the 

 old name of St. John's Close, having been built on property 1 which 

 formerly belonged to the endowments of St. John's Hospital. 



In fulfilment of our promise made on p. 539, as above, in the 

 List of Chantries, &c, we may now give a fuller summary of 

 Chantries, Services, and Lights at Marlborough as they were in the 

 former part of the sixteenth century. 



I. St. Peter and St. Paul's Church. 



(a) Obits, Sfc. 



1475 — 1548. Daily commemoration, and, on Monday after 11 th Nov., 

 anniversary of J. Brydde, or Bird, with remembrance of K. 



'Called "part of Gallows Close" in the Poor Rate Book, 1747- 

 Eleanor of Provence, Queen Dowager in 1275 kept gallows (f ureas) for 

 this Borough. Mr. W. New, as Overseer in November, 1759, appears to be 

 the first to adopt the more euphonious title of " Gougtis Close," in the Rate 

 Book ; but the previous name may be traced occasionally as late at least as 

 1843. 



