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two shillings and sixpence of annual rents, 173 acres of arable, 
and 1 of pasture, in Pensdon, Winterwell, Flexlegh, Elridge, 
&c. [Brit. Mus. Add. Charter, No. 1533.] In 1346, John 
de Peyton, in right of his wife (a Bluet), obtained a license for 
a private chapel in his manor of Lackham [Wyvil Register, 
Sarum]. The following names of Chaplains occur in the 
Wilts Institutions :—1349, Stephen Draper; 1852, Walter 
Fynamour; 1410, William Hunte: the last having been 
presented by Philip Baynard, then Lord of the Manor. The 
site of the chapel is not known. In the wall of a building 
behind Sir John Awdry’s house at Notton, are inserted some 
stones traditionally said to have been brought from it. On 
one of them is a cross. Another has the arms of Bluet and 
Baynard. 
Lacock Assey, (Hundred of Chippenham.) ‘Locus Beate 
Marie,” was the name appointed by the foundress Ela (D’ 
EKureux), Countess Dowager of Salisbury, widow of William 
Longespée the First, A.D. 1232. It was dedicated to St. 
Mary. 
The Nuns, eighteen in number, were of the Order of St. 
Augustine. It was sold at the Dissolution to Sir William 
Sharington, who converted the monastic buildings into a 
residence. The cloistered quadrangle and other portions still 
remain, but the conventual chapel is destroyed: the north 
wall of it still forming the south front of the house. Three 
Priests daily officiating, and a Father confessor are mentioned 
in the Valor Eccles., as the clerical staff of the convent. 
Laxz, in Wilsford parish, near Ambresbury, (but in Underditch 
Hundred.) The first gift to Bradenstoke Priory by Walter 
of Salisbury its founder (Will. I.,) included the “Capella de 
Lacha,” with all its appurtenances, and one Richard Cotele 
also gave a virgate of land in “Lacha.” At the Dissolution 
the lands and tythes belonging to the chapel of Lake were 
leased by the Crown to Richard South of Ambresbury: were 
afterwards granted to the Partridge family, and in 1599, were 
purchased by George Duke. [R.C. Hoare, Underditch, p. 137.] 
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