Bishop of Sarum, a sermon was preached 25th September, 
1673, by Joseph Kelsey, B.D., Rector of Newton Tony, in 
Wilts. 
CLARENDON Paxace, near Salisbury, (Hundred of Alderbury.) 
This was a favourite country residence of several of our early 
Kings: but by which of them it was originally built is not 
certainly known. It had a Chapel of All Saints founded by 
Hen. II., in which the ministrations were supplied by the 
Canons of Ivy Church, a monastery adjoining the pale of 
Clarendon Park. A new chapel was built, temp. Hen. III. 
A font is mentioned in 35 Hen. III., A.D. 1250-1. Sir 
R. ©. Hoare (Alderbury, p. 152), has some curious particulars 
about the paintings and other embellishments of the Royal 
Chapel. In 1272 (1 Edw. 1.) there were in the palace two 
chapels, one for the King, the other for the Queen. 
Ciatrorp, (Hundred of Selkley, near Marlborough.) An Alien 
Priory, belonging to St. Victor en Caux in Normandy, founded 
temp. Will. I. by Sir Roger Mortimer. On suppression it 
was granted to Eton College, but went afterwards by exchange 
to the Protector Duke of Somerset. 
A chapel is mentioned as here in A.D. 1441-2. “20 Hen. 
VI. John Wodeford of Marlborough took away a certain stone 
in front of the altar in Clatford Chapel, worth 40d., and 
carried it to Marlborough.” [Jones’s Index, Ing. ad q. dam- 
num, p. 384. ] 
Coprorp Sr. Mary, (Hundred of Heytesbury.) In connection 
with Codford Church was a Hermirace. Of these solitary 
institutions, we have historical evidence in a few other parishes 
in Wilts (as at Fisherton Anger, near Salisbury): traditions 
of them in many. A Religious Hermit was however, not the 
ideal tenant of a cave on a hill side or in a forest, living on 
roots and berries: but (to use Dr. Ingram’s words in his “ Me- 
morials of Codford Church,” from which the following account 
is borrowed) “‘ Hermits had public duties to perform. They 
were not permitted to retire from the world and avoid its 
burthens at their own will and pleasure, under the pretence of 
270 Ancient Chapels, &c., in Co. Wiits. 
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