278 
Ancient Chapels, &c., in Co. Wilts. 
Reformation. [See Wilts Collections, note, p. 381.] The 
present church was built subsequently. A note in Wilts 
Institutions, p. 25, says that Easton Hospital was founded by 
Robert, Bishop of Sarum: and in the same volume, p. 199, 
John Seymour is called the second founder. 
Epinepon Monastery, (East of Westbury, and in Whorwellsdown 
Hundred.) Rumsey Abbey in Hampshire was originally the 
chief proprietor of lands and tithes in the manor of Edingdon : 
and these profits were applied to maintain a Prebendary, con- 
nected with Rumsey. About A.D. 1847 (21 Edw. III), 
William of Edingdon, Bishop of Winchester, being a native 
of this parish, arranged to purchase from Rumsey Abbey its 
Prebendal estate in Edingdon: which he then applied to the 
establishment here, of a College, consisting of a Dean and 
twelve ministers who were to be in residence. For them and 
for this purpose he built a house, and a large church (the one 
still existing). To please the Black Prince, who upon his 
return from France wished to introduce into this country a 
certain reformed order of religious men to whom he had taken 
a great liking, the Bishop converted his College into a house 
of Friars, of the Order of St. Augustine, called ‘‘ Bonhommes,”’ 
the Principal of the establishment taking the title of ‘‘ Rector 
of Edingdon Priory.” At the Dissolution, the Priory church 
became the parish church. Of any endowed chantry chapels 
within it we have no account. Between the columns on the 
south side of the nave is a mortuary shrine or chapel of very 
small dimensions, erected (as the coats of arms in stone upon 
it testify) by the family of Cheney of Brooke House, Westbury. 
[See Wilts Collections, p. 349, 352. ] 
Leland (Itin., iii, 98) says that in his time there was a 
chapel and a hermitage on a hill hard by, where Bishop 
Ayscough was “ beheddid in a rage of the communes for asking 
a Tax of money.” Of this hermitage there is no trace now. 
Excomssz. In the parish of Wroughton, (Elstub and Everley Hun- 
dreds. Chantry chapel of St. Mary, Patrons the Lords Lovel, 
and Lovel and Holand. There are presentations from A.D. 
