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Ramssury, (Hundred of Ditto.) The Darell aisle, eastward from 
_ the north aisle of Ramsbury church, was a chapel dedicated 
to the B. V. M., built early in the 15th century, probably by 
the family of Calston then owners of Littlecote. Thomas 
Halle was cantarist in 1534: and the annual value £8 2s. Sir 
Edward Darell (mentioned above under Littlecote,) desired, 
by will A.D. 1528, to be buried in this chapel. His executrix 
“to burn a taper of wax before the Rood during Divine 
service for 3 years, and further and longer as his goods 
and profits of his land will extend.” He also desires marble 
stones with brasses for some of his family. An account of 
the aisle and of the Darell monuments is given in Wilts 
Arch. Mag. iv., 224. Ramsbury chantry is named in Ecton’s 
Thesaurus. [See Kite’s Wilts Brasses, p. 11: also Axford, 
supra. 
Rockey, or Tempte Rockey, [Selkley Hundred]. In the parish 
of Ogbourne St. Andrew’s, near Marlborough. John Mares- 
chall gave lands and established here a Preceptory of Knights 
Templars, 2 Hen. II. (A.D. 1156); which was afterwards 
given to the Knights Hospitalers of St. John of Jerusalem. 
As the Templars, wherever settled, usually had a chapel; (as 
for instance at Selk, which see infrd, near Marlborough,) it is 
very likely that they also had one here, at or near the place 
now called Temple Farm. Rockley is miscalled Rohee in 
Ecton and Bacon. [See above, Ogbourne St. Andrew. ] 
Roop Asurton, (Whorwellsdown Hundred.) The word “ Rode,” 
signifies in Anglo-Saxon, a “Crucifix :” i.e. a cross with the 
image of our Saviour upon it; including also, when the Rode 
was complete, the figures of Mary and St. John at foot. - 
When inside a church this group was placed over a screen at 
the entrance of the chancel: when outside, in a niche, or over 
the porch, or sometimes on a separate shaft in the church- 
yard, or even in a village. Places have sometimes taken their 
name from this feature: as Holy Rood in Edinburgh, Rode 
Huish in co. Somerset, and others. The manor of Ashton 
having been anciently property of Shaftesbury Abbey, it is 
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