246 Ternmbcr's Chantry at Trowbridge. 



viz. Reprised for An yerely rente goynge oute of the viii 8 . ii d . 



premises to the Duke of Somerset his 

 Grace. 



And so remayneth clere liv 8 . vi d . 



The goods and ornaments belonging to the said Brotherhood 

 were valued at viii 8 . ii d ., and are thus enumerated : — 



" dftrtft, a Masse Book and 2 pares of vestments of parti-colors, 2 corporas 

 cases with 2 clothes, an aulter cloth, 2 curtaynes of red sylke, an old cope of 

 sylke, a cloth to hange before the aulter of sylke." 



Even before the lands belonging to this Brotherhood were, like 

 those of all similar foundations, disposed of in accordance with an 

 Act of Parliament, the proceeds seem to have been alienated from 

 their original purpose. The parochial authorities of the 16th 

 century were certainly not so guiltless as were their successors of a 

 subsequent age. It would have been well if metaphorically, as well 

 as literally, they had " mended their ways." 



JJJtemOratltfum. " The Chirchwardens upon their oathes have declared that the 

 said land was not employed to aid the fyndinge of any Preste by 

 the space of these five yeares but converted to the mendynge of 

 the highwayes about Trowbridge where as much nede is." * 



The thanks of the Editor are due to the Churchwardens of 

 Trowbridge for their permission to make a transcript of the deed 

 relating to Terumber's Chantry, &c. The document itself is in 

 fair preservation, though in one or two places, where the paper on 

 which it is written has been folded, it is partially, and sometimes 

 wholly illegible. A few words here and there have been supplied 

 from conjecture, and have consequently, in the following printed 

 copy, been enclosed within brackets. 



* Booke of Surrey of Chauntreys, No. 68, Certificate No. 46. 



