298 Ancient Chapels, &e., in Co. Wilts. 
p. 131, it is called “the Free Chapel of Monkenton, Richard 
Betelle (Bethel) Rector: worth £4a year.” There are no 
Institutions in the Bishop’s Registry at Sarum. Bacon’s 
Liber Regis describes it as a “Chapel, alias V.” (Vicarage). 
Both (Winterbourne) Monkton Vicarage and Free Chapel, are 
marked on the map of the Valor Eccles. In 1 Edw. VI., 
Thomas Gymlette, alids Barbor, aged 40 years, was Incumbent : 
and the clear yearly value £6 8s. [Augm. Off.] 
Moore Axpseston. See Whiteparish, infrd. 
Norrines, parish of Warminster. A Free Chapel, or “ Rectory,” 
dedicated to St. Michael. The presentations run from A.D. 
13138, to 1490. Sir John de Cormayles was the first patron : 
then the Gascelyn family: then Lye of Flambardeston. In 
June, 1531 (23 Hen. VIII.), a lease for twenty years was 
granted to Richard Hill, of the ‘“‘ Chapel covered with tyle, 
with 253 acres of land, and the tythe of 39 acres and more, 
in Warminster, Upton and Norridge.” In 1. Edw. VLI., 
William Hill, aged 50 years, was Incumbent: and the clear 
yearly value was £2 13s. It had a Bell, value 6s. Mr. Hill 
was “a well learned man, right able to serve a cure. and had 
none other lyving, savynge one lytell benefyce in Wyltes, of 
the yerely value of £8.” (This was probably Grittleton 
Rectory, near Chippenham.) Norridge Chape/ is marked on 
the map of the Valor Eccles., 1534. It is now destroyed. 
(For information, see Sir R. C. Hoare’s Warminster, pp. 
67, 95, 107:) 
Norton Bavent. Hundred of Warminster.) On the south side 
of the church is a chapel, supposed to have been built by 
John Benett, who was buried in the middle of it in 1461. 
Oaxsey. Hundred of Malmesbury.) Aubrey, (1670) says, “Ina 
close adjoyning to the church-yard, are yet to be seen the 
ruins of an old seat of the Duke of Lancaster’s, and a chapell. 
It is now called Court, and Chapell Close.” [Wilts Collec- 
tions, p. 276.] On the map of Sarum diocese, in the Valor 
Eccles., the chapel is marked, and in the accounts of Malmes- 
bury Abbey, (Valor Eccles., p. 122.) the income of the chapel — 

