242 



Tcrumher's Chantry at Trowbridge. 



mated at £23 3s. lOd. Brought to its present relative value, 

 this would represent a sura of more than ten tiraes that amount, — 

 probably as much as £300. 



From this gross sum of £23 3s. lOd. there were, according to 

 the official document in the Record Office, 1 deductions to be made. 

 The entry is as follows : — 



Lands and tenements prized at xxii 11 iii 8 . x d . 



Whereof 



Yerely rentes goinge oute of the premises 

 to diverse persones following, viz. To the 

 Teetjmbeee's Duke of Somerset xlii s . v d ., to the chefe lorde 

 Chatjntre of Bradeford x s . iv d ., to Anthony Rogers lxxiv 8 . ix d . 

 founded xvi d ., to William Palmer xx d ., to Robert 

 within y e Stow ell and John Barnfield iv% to Xtopher 

 Parish Chirche Dauntsey vi s . viii d ., and to the Parson of 

 of Trowbridge. Trowbridge viii s . iv d ., in all 



An yerely charge goyinge oute of the 

 saide landes for and to the relieve of the pore iv !i . 

 as by force of the fundation. 



And so remayneth clere xiv 11 . ix s . i d . 



The goods and ornaments belonging to the said chantry, were 

 "prized" at the modest sum of 14s. 4d., and are thus enumerated : — 



UTrofoiirttftje, First, a masse booke of parchement, a paire of vestments of red 

 sylke, a paire of vestments of greene sylke, a paire of vestments 

 of blacke chamlett with an orpheus * of redd velvet and braunches 

 of golde, 2 aulter clothes, 2 corporas cases, a paire of lytel 

 candlestycks, a lytel pillow covered with sylke. 



The name of the Chantry Priest at the time of the Dissolution of 

 Chantries, was Robert Wheatacre, a name now better known in its 

 modern form of " Whitaker," but by no means so indicative of its 

 origin. At the time of the survey by the King's Commissioners, 

 he was " of the age of xlii yeares," and the following official report 

 was given concerning him and his doings. 



1 Booke of Survey of Chauntreys, No. 58, Certificate No. 45. See also 

 " Particulars of Sale of Chauntreys," p. 428. 



•It is so written in the original and is sufficiently unintelligible. Most probably the following 

 note from Hearne's Glossary to Langtoft's Chronicle gives us the clue to the meaning. "Orfrkis, 

 a French word from or, gold and frise, and signifleth a guard or welt of gold, or frised cloth of gold. 

 "Orfrais (saith Cotgrave) broad welts or gards of gold, or silver imbroideree laid on copes or other 

 church vestments. In old times the jackets, or coat-armours of the King's gard were tearmed so, 

 because they were covered with goldsmithes worke." The term orphrey is still used for the orna- 

 ments embroidered on ecclesiastical vestments. 



