292 Ancient Chapels, &c., in Co. Wilts. 
The chapel is not mentioned in the Valor Eccles., 1534. 
Loxeswet., Lockswell, or Loxwell, about four miles from Chippen- 
ham, near Derry Hill, on the right hand of the road to 
Devizes. Henry, Earl of Anjou (afterwards Hen. II.) gave 
this place, then in the old forest of Chippenham, to the Monks 
of Quarrer in the Isle of Wight, on condition of establishing 
a house of Cistercians here, which they did in A.D. 1151, but 
three years afterwards they were removed by the Empress 
Maud, to Stanlegh in the vale below. Close to the present 
farm-house of Lockswell, is a copious spring of water. The 
ancient name of this spot was Drown Font, in Latin “‘ Drogonis 
Fons,” the spring of Drogo, Chamberlain to the Empress 
Maud. The original name may possibly have been “ Loki’s 
well :”’ Loki was one of the deities of nature, always connected 
by our remote ancestors with water. [Kemble Anglo-Saxons, 
i., 378. ] 
Loneteat Priory, (Hundred of Heytesbury.) A small house of 
Black Canons, dedicated to St. Radegund, founded, it is said 
by Sir John Vernon of Horningsham, about A.D. 1270: after- 
wards annexed to Henton Charter House Abbey, co. Somerset. 
It stood upon the site of Longleat House. There was a chapel 
of B. V. M., and altars to St. Cyriac and St. Juliana. Coffins 
have been found. [See Wilts Arch. Mag. iii., 283. Sir R.C. 
Hoare, Heytesbury, p. 55. ] 
Maren Braptey, (Hundred of Mere.) In the reign of Hen. II. 
Manserus Biset, owner of Bradley, established a chapel for 
leprous women, which was consecrated by Hubert, Bishop of 
Sarum, on condition that it should in no wise interfere with 
the rights of the church of All Saints at Bradley. This sub- 
sequently became the chapel of Maiden Bradley Priory. 
~ A register of this Priory, unknown to the Editors of the 
New Monasticon and to Bishop Tanner, was lately discovered 
by me among the Marquis of Bath’s documents, at Longleat. 
It is of the years 1364 and 1365, but very illegible. Two 
seals of the Priory are engraved in Gent. Mag. 1828, part i., 
p- 305. A third is in my possession, appended to a deed of 
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