By the Rev. J. E. Jackson. _ 815 
Wesrsury. (Hundred of ditto.) Annexed to, or partly built in 
with the main body of Westbury Church, are five additions : 
bearing the traditional names of five families as the 
respective builders: but owing to the absence of distinct 
record either of endowment or description of site, it is not easy 
now to identify each of them with certainty. 
North side. 1. On the north side of the chancel is the (so called) 
Mauduit Chapel. The Mauduit family were of great importance 
in this neighbourhood as lords of the adjoining manor of 
Warminster, till about the beginning of Rich. II., when they 
were succeeded by Sir Henry Greene of Drayton, co. North- 
ampton, who married their heiress. In Westbury, Leigh and 
Bratton, they also had considerable property, and in A.D. 
1332 “the advowson.of the chapel of the manor.” [Sir 
R. C. Hoare’s Westbury, p. 79.] In 1841, a William of 
Grimstead, lessee of Mauduit’s manor, endowed a chaplain in 
Westbury with six marks: and in 1406 (8 Hen. IV.), Ralph 
Greene, son of Sir Henry, renewed a long lease of “‘ Mauduit’s 
Manor,” and of ‘the Advowson of the Chapel” to William 
Westbury, Justice of the Common Pleas. [Sir R. C. Hoare’s 
Warminster, p. 8.] What is meant in these authorities by 
the ‘“advowson of the chapel of Mauduit’s manor ” is a little 
perplexing. There is, on the one hand, no mention or tra- 
dition, of any distinct building, standing within the limits of 
the Jands called Mauduit’s. On the other, there is no record 
of any endowment by the Mauduits themselves, of any chapel 
within the parish church. Yet without such endowment of 
land or tithe, the mere nomination of a chaplain to celebrate 
mass in a part of the parish church, would hardly have been 
called an “ Advowson of the chapel of Mauduit’s manor.” 
The name of “ Mauduit’s” is at present usually given to this 
north appendage to the chancel: but John Aubrey (1650) 
did not so call it. His story, on the contrary, is that it was. 
“built by Two maids of Brook” (i.e. Brooke House in West- 
bury.) The “ Two maids of Brook” would fairly be the two 
sisters, coheiresses of the Pavely family, owners in former 
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