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Ancient Chapels, &c., in Co. Wiits. 
Devizes, that it is difficult to pronounce with certainty what 
the case really was. For instance, a chantry is mentioned as 
“within the chapel of St. John the Baptist in the parish of 
St. Mary; of the foundation of Richard Cardmaker, worth 
£3 8s. 4d.” Another in the “parish church of St. John, 
founded by John Cardmaker, value £6 3s. 4d. for a priest to 
pray at the altar of St. Leonard within the said church, for 
the soul of the said John Cardmaker.” It is probable that both 
the above were within St. John’s church: and that there has 
been some verbal error in the accounts and description of 
them in various returns from time to time. In the same 
church, on the south side, is an annexed chapel, built most 
probably by the family of Beauchamp of Bromham: but no 
account of its origin or endowment has been met with. 
In St. Mary’s were three chantries: two founded by John 
Coventry, Junior, Mayor of Devizes in 14386: the third by 
William Coventry. [See Mr. Kite’s account of them in Wilts 
Arch. Mag., vol. ii., pp. 250, 253.] There were two Hospitals 
in or near St. John’s church-yard: one founded for lepers 
before A.D. 1207. The Prior of the Hospital of St. John 
was instituted by the Bishop of Sarum in 1314. 
Dinton, (lies in Dunworth, but belongs to Warminster Hundred.) 
The late Mr. Britton says (Beauties of Wilts iii., 327), that 
‘near the site of the present mansion was a Cell or monastic 
building, for the residence of six nuns belonging to the mon- 
astery of Shaftesbury.” The manor belonged to Shaftesbury 
Abbey: but Sir R. C. Hoare, in Modern Wilts, says nothing 
about the Cell at Dinton. 
Dircnampton. See Wilton, injfrd. 
Downton, (Hundred of Ditto.) In a Survey of Chantries, 1 Edw. 
VI. 1547, is “ Burnell’s Chantry founded within the parish 
church of Downton: Alen Meyrick, aged 56 years, Incumbent. 
Clear yearly value £3 15s. 4d.” 
Draycote Firz-Payne, (Hundred of Swanborough.) This is a — 
small hamlet under the downs, in the northern part of the 
parish of Wilcote. It was anciently the property of the 
