By Mr. Edward Kite. 



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deemed superstitious, it was confiscated to the crown and re-granted 

 for fresh uses, as in an indenture, dated 3rd May, 24 Elizabeth, 

 (1582) it is recited that John Hubert of London, gentleman, and 

 Andrew Palmer procured from the queen a grant of the tenements 

 occupied by Knapp and Come, and Isabel's Breach and Croft. 

 Since this they have been enfeoffed to various parties in trust for 

 the use of the poor, and the reparations of the parish church. 



The dole in memory of Eichard Gobett, amounting to about twenty 

 shillings, was however distributed annually to the poor on All Saints' 

 Day until about the middle of the last century, but since that time 

 it has been wholly discontinued. 



Other bequests for similar purposes, although not mentioned in 

 the inquisition above alluded to, appear to have been made to this 

 church ; e. g. — 



An annual dole of about 8s. 4d., bequeathed by Sir Thomas Newman 1 and 

 Robert Paynter, distributed on Good Friday. 



Thomas Cardmaker's Light ) , 1/lnn 



mi t • i j. • r\ t i > -d mentioned 1499. 

 lhe Light m Our Lady s Porch ) 



The Lamp before the High Altar 1525. 



Coventry Family. 



The family of Coventre, or Covyntre, appears to have been one 

 of importance in Devizes during the fourteenth and fifteenth 

 centuries. As they were more or less connected with, and some 

 of them were benefactors to, its churches, the following notices 

 collected from a few documents of that period relating to them are 

 added : — 



William Coventre. Mayor of Devizes, 11 Eichard II. (1388); 



one of the procurators of the goods, &c. in the church of St. Mary, 



12 Henry IV. (1411), living 1415-16. 

 John Coventre, (son of William Coventre, Sen.) One of the 



procurators of the church of St. Mary, and mayor of Devizes, 



22 Eichard II. (1398). John Coventre, Sen., (probably the 



same) was mayor in 1415. 



Both he and his wife, Joan, were annually commemorated in 



1 Sir Thomas Newman appears to have been a chantry priest. His name occurs in 1404. 



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