266 Ancient Chapels, &c., in Co. Wilts. 
Charters in the British Museum. In “ Addit. MS. 6368, fol. 
175,” it is mentioned that the Tropenells had in 1519, “the 
manor of Neston, with the chapel of St. John Baptist there, 
and close adjoyning in the Rygge, in Neston.” And “ Add. 
MS. 5140,” is a Latin deed, the substance of which in English 
is as follows :— 

15 Hen. VIII., AD. 1523, 5th June. Thomas Tropenell grants to Thomas | 
Englefield, Serjeant-at-Law, William Gale, and others. ‘‘ All his manor 
of Great Chalfield, &c,: also all his lands, &c.,in New Sarum, Fisherton 1 
Aucher, Hertham in the parish of Cosham, Neston Cosham, and Cosham 
londe, with the Chapel of St. John the Baptist, and close adjoining in Le 
Rigge in Cosham londe, &c. To the use of the said Thomas Tropenell ) 
and his heirs for ever, for the fulfilment of the purposes of his Last Will. | 
Endorsed, ‘ Delivery and seisin had 1 July by John Howell, Atty.’ ” 

CuaAreEL Piaysrer, between Corsham and Bradford. The name is 
probably Playstow, meaning an open place for village recrea- 
tions. This chapel which is within the parish of Box, near 
the meeting of six different roads, by the way-side at the end 
of Corsham Ridge, is still standing. It is 29 feet long by 
about 9 feet wide, has a chancel, north transept, nave and little 
bell-cot, with a porch and holy water stoup. Its real history 
is not known, but the tradition about it in Aubrey’s time 
(c. 1660). was that it had been a sort of way-side oratory, with 
small lodging house attached, for pilgrims travelling to Glaston- 
bury. This is not improbable, for the same thing occurs in 
other parts of England, and in other countries, as in Spain. 
“Pilgrims to St. James of Compostella being very numerous 
and sometimes hindered by the difficulties of the journey, and 
the roughness and barrenness of those parts, the canons of St. 
Eloy with a desire of remedying these evils, built in many 
places along the whole road which reached as far as France, 
hospitals for the reception of Pilgrims.” [Cary’s Dante iii., 
253.] The word “hospital,” now confined in England to 
public receptacles for sick, originally meant a house for recep- 
tion of guests: an inn. For more about Chapel Playster, see 
Wilts Collections, Aubrey & Jackson, p. 59. 
CxarLton, between Devizes and Pewsey, (Hundred of Swan- 
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