By the Rev. J. E. Jackson. 259 
1. At Easr Grarron was St. Nicholas, which was presented to 
so late as A.D. 1579, and which stood in a field nearly opposite 
to the present new church (built 1844). The foundations of 
the old chapel with debris of stained glass and pavement tiles, 
were dug up and removed in the year 1844. In plan, it was 
a simple parallelogram, with two buttresses at each angle ; 
the interior dimensions having been 53 feet long, by 17 feet 
6 inches wide. An ancient pax found close by, is figured in 
Wilts Arch. Mag. vi., 271. The chapel anciently belonged 
to St. Margaret’s Priory, Marlborough. 
2. Cuispury; the Free Chapel of Sr. Martin, presented to in 
A.D. 1496 by the Bishop of Salisbury, by lapse. The building 
still remains, and is a beautiful specimen of decorated archi- 
tecture: 52 feet 6 inches long, and 20 feet 2 inches wide, 
inside. It stands within the old entrenchment, called Chisbury 
camp. 
3. At Knowt, 1} miles west of Chisbury, was a chapel, of 
which there is no known record: but parts of the building 
remain. 
4. Marten. The foundations of a chapel, 47 feet long, by 19 feet 
6 inches wide, were discovered here in November, 1858, by 
Mr. Henry Selfe, in a meadow opposite the manor house, and 
close to a remarkable moated inclosure. A ground plan, a 
carving in ivory 10 inches high, representing the Virgin and 
Child, found near here, and some fragments of stained glass 
with the arms of the Malwyn family (of West Grafton, in 44 
Edw. III.) are drawn in the 6th vol. of the Wilts Arch. Mag. 
p- 273. 
Benttzy Woop. Forest of Clarendon, (Alderbury Hundred.) 
William Longespée, Earl of Salisbury (jure uzoris), commenced 
or at least intended a monastic establishment, which is twice 
mentioned in his will dated 1225. “TI assign £200 towards 
the building of St. Mary of the Essart! of Bentle-wood. 
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1Essart, or more commonly Assart land, was cleared woodland. This, being 
an injury to vert and venison in the King’s forest, was a very great trespass i 
done without license. Sometimes license was granted, and then Assart rents 

