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Marton, (South Damerham Hundred,) formerly called Merton. “A 
little chapel at Merton in the Earl of Shaftesbury’s house, is 
paved with tiles, whereon are annealed or enamelled the coate 
and quarterings of Horsey.” [Aubrey, Nat. Hist. of Wilts, 
p- 101.] 
Merz, (Hundred of Mere.) The chancel of the parish church 
stands between two chantry chapels. That on the north side 
was founded in honour of the Annunciation of the Blessed 
Virgin Mary, A.D. 13824, by John de Mere: and was further 
endowed in 1484 by the Stourton family: that on the south 
side was founded by John de Bettesthorne, Lord of Chaden- 
wych, in this parish. These were afterwards called ‘“ For- 
ward’s”’ and *‘ Berkeley’s” Chantries. The map of the Valor 
Kccles., mentions three chantries in Mere church: and that 
record itself says they were all of the foundation of John 
Berkeley, Kt. In a curious Latin list of the property belong- 
ing to one of these chantries, printed in Sir R. C. Hoare’s 
Mere, p. 144, the chaplain’s dresses are described as worked 
with figures of ‘‘ white birds, griffin’s heads, fleurs de lis:” 
and various coats of arms, lions, peacocks, &c. See also Kite’s 
Wilts Brasses, p. 23. 
The Register of Bishop Osmund, who died A.D. 1099, 
mentions two chapels inthe parish. One at Seles (now ZEAI’s) 
dedicated to St. Martin: the other at Chandeswic (CHaDEN- 
WYCHE) of the same dedication: with a service in each thrice 
a week. [Modern Wilts, Mere, p. 142.] 
Merton. See Marton, suprd. Also “ Marston.” 
Monxron Fartey Priory. (Hundred of Bradford.) A house of 
Clugniac Monks of the Order of St. Benedict, founded about 
A.D., 1125, by Humphrey de Bohun. Subordinate to Lewes 
Priory in Sussex. Of the conventual church, nothing remains. 
Its site was excavated in 1744, and certain discoveries were 
made, a description of which is given in the Wilts Arch. 
Mag. iv., p. 281. 
Sionzrox, 3 in the Deanery of Avebury, (Selkley Hundred.) ‘Chapel 
to Overton, destructa” [Ecton.]. In the Valor Eccles., Wilts, 
