By the Rev. J. E. Jachson. 



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2. The Hospital of St. Thomas of Canterbury, for a master 

 and sick brethren, was founded in Hen. III. and annexed to 

 St. Margaret's Priory. 



3. The Hospital of St. John the Baptist, for brethren and 

 sisters, built before 16 John : had lands in Kennet. A chapel 

 in the hospital is mentioned in Yalor Eccles., p. 147. 



4. White Friers : on south side of the street, founded, 1316, 

 by two merchants, John Goodwin and William Remesbech. 



St. Martin's Church, or Chapel. Leland names a "Chappel of 

 St. Martyne at the Entre at the est ende of the Towne." The 

 Chantry Commissioners, 2 Edw. VI., mention "the parisshe 

 of St. Marten's in Marlborough," and state that Richard Croke 

 founded an obit within it. The church is not mentioned in 

 the Valor Eccles., nor other Eccles. Taxations, nor in the 

 Wiltshire Institutions. St. Martin's street now leads from 

 the Green to Poulton : and north of that street, between Cold 

 Harbour and Blowhorn Street, about half-way from St. 

 Martin's Street to the boundary of the parish, the church is 

 said to have stood. It had Churchwardens in the 16th 

 century. 



Marlborough Castle. Free Chapel of St. Nicholas, 

 within the Castle. This is mentioned in A.D., 1249, but the 

 first institution recorded, is in 1311. Among alterations 

 ordered in Marlborough Castle, A.D., 1249, the Constable of 

 the Castle was to " lengthen the chamber behind the Chapel 

 of St. Nicholas, towards the priest's chamber, with an oriole." 

 Also " to erect in the Queen's Chapel there (was this a second ?) 

 a crucifix with Mary and John, and the Virgin Mary with her 

 child." [Waylen's Marlborough, p. 50.] In 1397 (20 Rich. 

 II.) the Earl of Hereford (afterwards Hen. IV.) was charged 

 with entering Marlborough Castle by force, and taking thence, 

 among other goods of Hugh le Despencer, " crosses of gold, 

 ebony, ivory, and other ornaments belonging to the chapel, 

 cloth of gold, tapestry, coverlids, priest's wardrobe, &c." 

 (Ditto p. 59.) The Norman font of this chapel, used in Royal 

 Christenings, is supposed to be now in Preshute Church, and 



