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Sr. Girzs’s Hosprrat. . This had a chapel covered with lead. The 
clear annual value was £6, 1 Edw. VI.; and John Dowse, 
clerk, was Master. 
Black Friars are said to have been at Wilton. 
St. Mary Magdalen’s Hospital. A tradition of such a house 
is mentioned by John Aubrey: but nothing has been dis- 
covered about any such place. If it ever existed it was lost 
before the Reformation. 
Wirrennam. See Rowley, supra. 
7oopDHILL, or WoopuvuLt, in parish of Clyff Pypard. In 1274 
(3 Edw. I.), there was a chapel with Rectory, belonging to 
the Prioress of Ambresbury. [Nonar. Inq., p. 162. ] 
Woorron Basser, (Kingsbridge Hundred.) A Priory or Hospital 
of St. John Baptist, founded A.D. 1266, by the Despencer 
family. The custos was instituted by the Bishop. United to 
Bradenstoke Priory in Hen. IV. [See Wilts Coilections, p. 
203.] In Pope Nicholas’s Taxation, A.D. 1391, the head of 
the house is called “Prior de Wotton in Bradenstoke.” He 
had at Quedhampton near Wotton, 10s. a year. 
Wraxuatt, Norrn. In this church was an endowed chantry, 
with a chaplain; originally founded (probably) by a Sir 
Godfrey de Wrokeshale: and afterwards in the patronage of 
successive lords of the manor. At the Confiscation, 1 Edw. 
VI., the clear yearly value was 48s. 8d. The Incumbent then 
was William Spencer, “a student in Oxford.” The Wilts 
Institutions speak of two chantries here, St. Mary’s (13381), 
and All Saints (A.D. 13890). The chaplains to both were in- 
stituted by the Bishop. 
Wraxnatt, Sourn. In this parish, a few hundred yards from the 
- old manor house of the Longs, is a farm-house, which con- 
tains some very good remains of a chapel. This was St. 
Audoen’s, or vulgd St. Tewen’s. (Sr. Owen was a canonized 
Bishop of Rouen, A.D. 683.) This chapel, with certain lands 
and tithes, was purchased under the name of St. Tewen’s, by 
the Longs, in 1629, from Henry Thynne and Edmund Pike. 
Part of the property belonging to the chapel of St. Tewen’s, 
