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Avon, on the road from Bradford to Bath. ‘A chapel here 
is mentioned expressly in the deeds by which Henry VIII. 
bestowed the Rectorial Tithes and the advowson of the churches 
and chapels” (of Bradford) ‘‘on the Dean and Chapter of 
Bristol.” [Rev. W. H. Jones, History of Bradford, Wilts 
Arch. Mag. v., 37.] 
Daunteszy, (Hundred of Malmesbury.) In Ecton, p. 403, and 
Bacon’s Liber Regis, p. 885, this church is entered as “‘ Daun- 
tesey R. (St. James) cum capelid westenD.” Nothing is known 
now in the parish about such ancient chapel, or such name as 
Westend. The only approach to an explanation that it is in 
my power to make, is, that there certainly was on the 
far side of the parish, at a small hamlet called Smithcote, a 
chapel dedicated to ‘“‘Saint Anne.” It was long since des- 
troyed. See Smithcote, infra. 
Desrencer’s. A license was granted by the Pope in 1256, to 
John Despencer to have a chapel on his estate, owing to dis- 
tance from the parish church. [Rymer i., 610.] Where 
this was is uncertain: perhaps Fasterne in Wotton Basset. 
DevereLL, (Kingston Deverell, Hundred of Mere.) In Sir R. C. 
Hoare’s Mere, p. 143, is an extract from Bishop Osmund’s 
Register (A.D. 1099), relating to Mere church, which mentions 
a chapel at Deverell, belonging to that church. “Item, alia 
capella apud Deverell, quam tenet Walterus Decanus pro 4 
marcis, per 4 terminos anni, et est CAPELLA DE Sto. ANDREA, 
et est de dominico Canonicorum Cenomansium, quorum terram 
habet Ricardus de Derneferd ad firmam.” This “chapel” 
probably stood in that part of Kingston Deverell which an- 
ciently belonged to the Canons of Lisieux in Normandy. [See 
} Mere, p. 138. ] 
Devizes. In 1547, a chantry called “the Free Chapel of St. John 
Baptist’? was confiscated, its property being £3 13s. 2d., 
a year: Robert Peade aged 63 years, Incumbent. Mr. 
Waylen, the historian of Devizes, says that the present 
parish church of St. John’s was itself anciently called 
the Free Chapel of St. John; but there is so much confusion 
of terms in the early notices of the ecclesiastical buildings of 
