40 Notes as to Names and Landmarks in Marlborough. 



Rector of this parish yearly at Easter the summe of 10s. for their seat in 

 the south corner of the Chancell." ' 



The Cock. Lease, 13th Oct., 1697, granted to Anthony Powell: — 



" One messuage or tenement called the Cocke." In the Baylye Ward. 

 (A note in the margin says that the Churchwardens of St. Peter's have the 

 counterpart.) The Mount Inn, or Mount House, now the confectioner's at 

 No. 1, Bridewell Street, near Marlborough College, was built after 1743 by 

 Francis Greenaway. It was called " The Antelope " in 1791, and " The 

 Fighting Cocks " in 1833. It was sold by St. Peter's parish in 1885. 



The Three Cups. From a lease, 29th March, 1708, to Mary Lyppyatt. 



" Two messuages known by the sign of the Three Cupps in the Marsh 

 Ward the land late in the tenure of Mary Hurll on the N., tenements in 

 the tenure of the widow Elford on the S., and part of the close called 

 Cowbride Close on the N. and W., the River Kennett on the S., and other 

 gardens in the tenure of . . . on the W. and the highway there." The 

 sign of " The Three Cups " is traced back to 1667. It was afterwards 

 changed (1774) to " The Chequers," and subsequently (1777) to " The Plume 

 of Feathers." 



1 This paragraph, with some others in the present set of " Notes," has 

 been communicated by Canon Christopher Wordsworth, Sub-dean of 

 Salisbury, formerly Rector of St. Peter's, Marlborough. 



