CHAFELRT OF ABNE. 



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officiates here once every Sunday. In the calendar of evidences 

 belonging to Shaftesbury abbey is mentioned a deed, whereby 

 the rector of Wareham was obliged to find a chaplain to officiate 

 in the chantry. The inhabitants of the chapelry repair it, and 

 maintain their own poor. ,The register begins 1589, but con- 

 tains nothing remarkable. Here is at present no ground 

 consecrated as a chapel-yard ; nor does a small piece of ground, 

 which seems levelled and dug out of the hill, appear ever to have 

 been used for that purpose, nor is there any such tradition. A 

 space round the chapel is however now fenced off, and may per- 

 haps at some future time be consecrated. Part of the east end 

 of the church-yard at Wareham was anciently allotted to the 

 inhabitants of Arne. It is not mentioned in the old valor ; in 

 the present, and also in the archdeacon's books, it is styled a 

 rectory, though it never appears to have been one, nor does it 

 ever occur as such in the Salisbury registers. The Eector of the 

 Holy Trinity in Wareham, pays yearly to the archdeacon, 45. 

 Here is no glebe. 



JOHN H. AUSTEN. 



Piscina in Amc Church. 



