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Zouche, Esq., to whom the property was sold by the Crown, 
33. Hen. VIII., was bound to maintain out of the great tithes 
a Chaplain in the Church, and a Curate for the parish. [Sir 
R. C. Hoare’s Hist. of Dunworth, p. 62]. The present little 
Church is very old, and may have been used by the Hospitalars. 
AsHLEIGH, near Bradford on Avon. The Rev. W. H. Jones, Vicar 
of Bradford, thinks there was a chapel here. There is a field 
still called the ‘Church-field,” belonging to the Misses 
Bailward, in which a stone coffin, still to be seen, was dug up; be- 
sides other traces of a burial ground. [ Wilts Arch. Mag. v. 37. ] 
AssERToN, alids WINTERBOURNE Parva, in the parish of Berwick 
St. James, (Hundred of Branch and Dole). The Inquis. post 
M. (15 Rich. IL.) A.D. 1891, mentions a Free Chapel within 
the mansion (infra mansionem) of John Paulet, Kt. Sir R. OC. 
Hoare (B & D., p. 185.) says of a chapel at Asserton, that “It 
was founded early, and had regular Institutions for some time, 
but appears to have fallen into disuse before the Reformation, 
when the Incumbent was returned as a /ayman, and to hold it 
as a school exhibition.” To ¢his chapel there were presenta- 
tions from A.D. 1298 to 1493. [WiltsInst.] In 1. Edw. VI. 
“The Free chappel of Asserton was held by Giles Thistle- 
thwayte, aged 26 years.” 
Avesury, or Apury, (Selkley Hundred.) An estate in this parish 
was given by King Henry the first’s chamberlain of Normandy, 
William de Tancarville, to the Benedictine Monks of St. 
George of Boscarville in that country: and so the monks 
established at Avebury became an Alien Priory to the foreign 
house of St. George. When suppressed as Alien, it was at 
_ one time given to St. Mary’s Winchester College, Oxford: but 
was afterwards in Hen. IV., annexed to Fotheringhay College 
Co. Northampton, and was sold at the Dissolution, to Sir 
William Sharington. Of any church or chapel specially 
belonging to the monks there are no remains. The church 
close by has some very ancient features. 
Avon, or Aven. Free chapel, near Christian Malford. The history 
of this (so far as known) is given in the notes to Wiltshire 

