300 Ancient Chapels, &c., in Co. Wilts. 
QUE TIBI LEGO LuGE. There is also the small letter m by itself 
on the stone. 
Povutron, or Putton, (in Cricklade Hundred, but encompassed by 
Gloucestershire.) Sir Thomas St. Maur of Castle Cary, co. 
Somerset, and of Eton Meysey, founded here about 21 Edw. III. 
(1347), to the honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a house of a 
Prior and two or three Canons of the Gilbertine, or Sempring- 
ham (co. Lincoln) Order, endowed with land and Rectorial 
tithes, worth about £400 of the money of the present day. In 
the Episcopal Registers at Sarum, the St. Maurs are the first 
patrons named. In 1340, Thomas St. Maur presents to the 
“Chantry at the Altar of St. Mary, Poulton.” From 1361 
to 1409, the Prior presented to the Rectory. In the Valor 
Eccles. of 1534, Poulton is not registered among monastic 
houses, but among the ordinary Rectories, though the Incum- 
bent Thomas Lyndwode calls himself Prior. At the confis- 
cation, the Priory property was sold to three persons, Stroude, 
Erle and Paget; a miserable stipend being reserved, to main- 
tain a perpetual Curacy; the present value of which is only 
£43 a year. 
Presuute. From one of the Liberate Rolls [Waylen’s Marlb., p. 
34], it appears that in A.D. 1215, King John “ for the safety 
of his soul and the souls of his predecessors and successors, 
gave unto Eve, the Recluse of Preshute, the sum of one 
denarius a day, which she should enjoy in free gift so long as. 
she lived, to be doled to her by the hands of the Constable of 
Marlborough Castle. Dated at Ludgershall, 4 Aug.” 
This Recluse was a female hermit, sometimes called Anchor- 
itess, Anchoress, or Ancresse, of a class frequently mentioned 
in topographical works. Juliana, the Anchoress of Norwich, 
is named among Ballard’s Learned Ladies. There was an 
Ancresse of St. Helen’s at Pontefract, co. York, called Dame — 
Margaret Multone. Whitaker [History of Richmond] men- 
tions a gift to the anchoritess in seclusion near “the chapel of 
St. Edmund: ” which Leland called “ the chapel of a woman 
anchorite a little beyond the ende of Frenche Gate.” 
