260 Ancient Chapels, &c., in Co. Wilts. 
Item: to the House of St. Mary of Bentle-wood, my feast- 
day chapel furniture which I have been accustomed to carry 
with me, except two vials of silver. I also bequeath to the 
same House my book, called a porte-hois” (a portable book of 
prayers, or breviary): “also 20 cows, 300 ewes, 100 muttons, 
32 oxen, 30 goats, and 100 porkers.” No other record res- 
pecting this house is known. It has been thought [Hist. of 
Lacock, p. 145], that this foundation may have merged 
in the subsequent foundation of Lacock Abbey by his widow 
Ela, Countess of Sarum. [See Mod. Wilts, Alderbury, p. 127.] 
BerecH, or Bariecu Chapel, (Hundred of Bradford.) It is not 
certain where this was. It occurs seven times in the Sarum 
Episcopal Registers, as a chapel in the gift of the Prior of 
Monkton Farley, from A.D. 1323 to 13849. In Domesday 
book, mention is made of a manor of “‘ Berrelege,” which the 
Exon Domesday places in the Hundred of Bradford. The 
Rev. W. H. Jones, editor of the Wilts Domesday, p. 198, 
says that the name of Berlegh is now lost, and that the manor 
cannot be identified: but he thinks that it was probably near 
Monkton Farley and Cumberwell. ‘‘ Berrifield,” “ Berfield,” 
or “ Bearfield,” is still the name of some lands immediately 
overhanging the town of Bradford. [See Wraxhall, South, 
infra. | 
Beversprook, near Calne, (Hundred of Calne.) A presentation 
to a chapel here occurs in the Wilts Institutions, A.D. 1298, 
Sir Hugh Blount being patron. 
Bippeston Sr. Perer’s, near Chippenham, (Hundred of Chippen- 
ham.) The small parish church of this very small parish was 
“‘lamentably ruined and converted into a barn,” in Aubrey’s 
were paid to the Crown. The name of this chapel is given in the English 
extract from Longespee’s will in the History of Alderbury, as here printed, 
“St, Mary of the Essart.”’ What the word in the original will may be, 
whether French or Latin, I know not: but it has been suggested to me by the 
Rev. E. Wilton, of West Lavington, that possibly the dedication may have been 
to ‘St. Mary of the Desert,”—i.e. Mary of Egypt, a saint who, according to her 
history in the Golden Legend, passed 47 years in the desert, until the hair of 
her head provided her with a mantle down to her knees. 

