306 Ancient Chapels, §c., in Co. Wilts. 
house. There was never any kind of monastery in Seagry 
itself: but an estate and farm-house in it belonged to the 
neighbouring Priory of Bradenstoke. 
SzLx, in Mildenhall parish, (Selkley Hundred.) Here was a 
“Vicarage” formerly belonging to the Knights Templars: 
and a chapel, long since destroyed. [Ecton, Bacon’s Liber 
Regis, and Waylen’s Marlb., p. 23.] It is supposed to have 
stood in Mildenhall Woodlands. In 1585 there was a wood 
here, belonging to the Hungerford family, called “St. John’s 
Throp.” | 
SEvenHAmpton, near Highworth. A chapel of St. James is men- 
tioned in which was a chantry founded by the Warnford 
family, about A.D. 1393. See Wilts Collections, p. 158, and 
appendix, No. xxxviii. The present chapel bears the dedica- 
tion of St. Andrew. 
SwaLBourRNE, near Hungerford, (Kinwardston Hundred.) “St. 
Margaret’s Chapel: cum cura, Michael Topping cantarist and 
curate,” 1534. [Valor Eccles.] The Commissioners in 1 Edw. 
VI., report “a chapell with cure at Shalborne Westcourte, 
Edward Blackall, aged 60 years, Incumbent. Clear yearly 
value £4. He was pensioned with £3 13s. 9d.” They add, 
“Mem. There be dyvers old recordes which testify the said 
Chappell to be a Parishe Churche: and it is used as a Parishe 
Churche, but the very parish Churche is but a myle distant 
from the Chappell.” [Augm. Office. ] 
In the Bishop’s Registry, Sarum, there is one presentation 
only. “1899. Chantry of St. Margaret of Shalborne. 
Patron, Wm. de Vedast, Prior of Okeborn, Prebendary of 
Okeborn: on behalf of the Abbot of Bec Herlewyn. Richard 
Hyote of Easton Grey was presented, exchanging with Ralph 
Polhampton.” There is a ruined chapel still existing. 
Suaw, near Melksham, (Hundred of Melksham.) St. Leonard’s 
Chapel (destroyed). So early as 29 Edw. III. (1855), the 
Dean and Canons of Sarum were bound to provide a Priest to 
say mass in this chapel for the deceased lords of the manor 
of Castle Combe. In the Court Rolls of Castle Combe, 1454 

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