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Ancient Chapels, &c., in Co. Wilts. 
to have been transferred thither on the dismantling of the 
castle. See a drawing of it in Wilts Arch. Mag. III. 239. 
In the parish churches were the following foundations :— 
In St. Peter’s: lands worth £5 7s. 4d., for the maintenance 
of a priest, called “Jesus Service.” John Burdsey, aged 
65 years, was last incumbent. 
Another chantry, founded 19. Hen. VII., (1503): “to 
contynewe for 99 years.” Lands worth £8 3s. Qd., a year. 
John Pitts (or Potter) aged 44 years, was “stipendiary:” i.e. 
(says the late Mr. F. A. Carrington) the heir of the founder 
got a priest for as little money as he could. 
St. Katharine’s Chantry is named in the Valor Eccles., in 
1534. In 1 Edw. VI. it was worth £8 13s. 8d. a year: part 
of which was a rent of 20s. out of a tenement called the “ An- 
gel,” belonging to Jeffry Daniell. Thomas Russell, aged 62 
years, Incumbent. There were several obits in the church of 
St. Peter. 
In St. Mary’s Church: a chantry, worth £10 3s. 4d.a year, 
founded by Foster and Pengryve. William Lewys, aged 60 
years, the last Incumbent. Also another chantry, a Jesus 
service, and several obits. [See Mr. Carrington’s paper, 
Wilts Arch. Mag. vii., 5.] 
Marston, near Highworth, (Hundred of Highworth.) Bishop 
Tanner [Notitia, p. 608] mentions a “ Merton Hospital” in 
Wilts, as occurring in a Plea of Assize, 54 Hen. III., wherein 
“one David Bening and others were charged with unjustly 
levelling a boundary in Chelworth. The jury found that his 
predecessor had founded the Hospital of Merton, &c.” Bishop 
Tanner in a note, asks “‘ whether this was not rather Merston 
in Highworth Hundred, being nearest to Chelworth ? ” 
Nothing about any Religious House at any Marston in Wilts, 
has been met with. 
Martin. See Bedwyn, Great, supra. 
1The ‘‘ Jesus Psalter” consists of fifteen petitions, and the name of JEsus 
being repeated ten times before each of them, the repetition is made one hundred 
and fifty times. 

