with tracery, and as this seemed improbable-the window being in an eighteenth century wall-I made enquiry of the artist who supplied the sketch to Mr. Bradley. He admitted that, having paid a fruitless journey to Pewsey in search of the oratory tracery (which is supposed to have found a home there), he took an artist's license and introduced tracery into the two-light window, with the view to making a pretty drawing, and without any intention of its reproduction. This drawing was made from an older one which did not show the tracery.

I have further ascertained from the builder who did the work, that he cut off the oratory window above the transom for the gentleman who (to quote Mr. Bradley) committed "a most deplorable act of vandalism," but that the two-light window was then, as it now exists, without tracery. I am satisfied that the drawing misled the author of the book to believe that tracery existed in "two of the windows."

In 1908 the stone wall on the north with its timber framing over gave place to a new wall, with the stone doorway re-built in it, further east, while what was left of the oratory window was superseded by the one shown in the sketch of the interior above referred to. It is very much to be regretted that this further spoliation of the oldest bit of a mediæval dwelling in Marlborough (if we except the small fragment of wall remaining of the St. Margaret's Priory) should have been found necessary, and that the old work could not have been retained in the alterations, to meet modern uses.