"THE CHANTEY," MAKLBOKOTJGH. 

 By C. E. Pouting, F.S.A. 



AMONG the many items of the past history of Marlborough which 



the Eev. Canon "Wordsworth has unearthed from various sources 



we find some particulars relating to the Chantries in St. Peter's 



Church. One of these was the Chantry of St. Katharine, founded 



probably early in the fifteenth century on the north side of the 



chancel arch. Canon "Wordsworth gives us the names of nine 



priests who held the Chantry from 1475 to 1547 or 1548 (in which 



latter year of Dissolution " Thomas Eussel, of the age of 62 yeres," 



was "incumbent," cant-arista, or chantry priest of " Saynt Katerens 



Chauntre"), 1 also the endowments and their tenants' names; he 



1 The names of those Chantey Priests of a chantry sometimes called the 

 " Bryddes Chantry," at the Altar op St. Katharine, in the Church of 

 St. Petek and St. Paul, Marlborough, who received institution from 

 the Bishop of Salisbury are given as follows, with the exception of the first 

 entry which is derived from Bp. Beauchainp's Register, in Sir T. Phillipps' 

 Institutiones Wilton, 1822 — 25. (It is called " Cantaria S. Katerine in Villa 

 de Marleburgh" in the Valor Ecclesiasticus of 1535, ii., p. 150 1 '.) 



A.D. 



Cnpellti, &c. 



Patroni. 



Olericus. 



1475 



" Cantaria perpetua S. 



Isabella, relicta 



Willielmus Smyth 



14 Apr. 



Katherine in Eccl. S. 



Jo ni *. Brydde 





(Beau- 



Petri de Marlebrogh, 



de Marlebrogh ; 





champ 



vulgariter nuncupata 



T. Beke de 





liegister 



Bri/dde is chauntrye." 



Arlegh Why- 





i. 181b) 





teknyght, gen. 





1479 



Cantaria St. Kath. S. 



Robertas Hall, 



Thomas Barett - 



(Beau- 



Petri Marleburgh 



Hector, et 



[Became Master, 



champ 





Johannes Child, 



or Prior, of the 



Reg.) 





Maior 



Hosp. of St. John, 

 inMarlb.,1506-10] 



1496 





Episcopus, per 



Thomas Clerk (per 



(Temp. 3. 



St. Petri, Marlebergh 



lapsum 



resirjnationem 



lilytlie, 







Thoma? Barett) 



Epi.) 









1502 



Cantaria St 50 Katerinas, 



Will""" Jonys, 



Johannes Sutton 



(Audeley 



in Ecclesia Sti Petri de 



rector Sti Petri, 



'per resign. Thoniie 



Reg.) 



Marlebroughe 



et Rob"" Foster 

 maior de Marl- 



Gierke). 







burgh 





T. Barret appears to have held Collingbourne Ducis Rectory in 1506. 



