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times of Brook House. But, as Brook House never belonged 
to the Mauduits (who were owners in quite a different part of 
Westbury parish), Aubrey’s tradition (200 years ago) seems 
to lend no support to the tradition of the present day, 
which calls this north chancel chapel by the name of 
** Mauduit’s.” 
Adjoining the last mentioned, and forming the end of the 
north transept, is another, which Aubrey (1650), visiting the 
church as an antiquary, and reporting what was told him, 
calls the “‘Leversedge Chapel.” A family of this name were 
larger landowners on the Somersetshire border adjoining 
Westbury parish, than in Westbury itself. But they had 
some lands in Westbury: and in the Chantry Rolls (quoted 
in Sir R. C. Hoare’s Westbury, p. 81) it is stated that “The 
ancestors of Robert Leversage, Esq., appointed owte of certain 
lands in Westbury, 8s. a year for the maintenance of an obit 
in the said church for ever.”” Aubrey’s testimony (1650) goes 
in favour of the current title of this part of the church, so 
far as to call the “aisle North of the Tower,” the “ Leversidge 
aisle: but here again confusion arises: for he says that 
“‘ Paveley and Cheney arms were in the window.”’ Now, the 
arms of Paveley and Cheney were coats assuredly belonging to 
Brook House, with which estate there is no evidence to show 
that the Leversedge family had anything to do. 
Whether Westbury Church, and Westbury traditions are 
able or unable to identify and find a place for the chapels of 
Mauduit and Leversedge, room they are bound to find for a third 
chapel on the same north side, viz.: for that of William of 
Westbury, C.J. of the Common Pleas, who died A.D. 1448: 
because in this case we have evidence, to which even parish 
traditions must accommodate themselves. In the Chief 
Justice’s last will, (printed in Sir R. C. Hoare’s Westbury, p. 
16) he speaks of a “perpetual chapel in the north part of 
Westbury Church: which chapel had been very lately built 
by his father John Westbury and himself:” in which also, 
“near the inner wall,” he “desires to be buried.” Aubrey 

