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Father The Lord Bishop of Bath and Glastonbury, the said Prior 
should offer a suitable exchange, the said Nicholas should return 
the said messuage as the right of the chapel of Lamesdun, 
This grant must have been made between 1198 when Robert 
was elected, and 1219 when ‘Jocelin ceased to be Bishop of 
Glastonbury. 
But this is not the only hint we have that the pugnacious spirit 
of those who fought with bow and shield on Lansdown, 
entered into the possessors of the chapel, for traces of legal 
disputes are referred to in the next notice we possess. 
A. covenant* by Henry de Caumpedene that he will preserve the 
_ Prior, &c., indemnified against all suit for the chapel of Lantesdon. 
Dated the morrow of the feast of St. Peter ad Vincula 1344. 
The chapel had an endowment of considerable worth as 
compared with the Rectory of Langridge for while in the Valor 
Ecclesiasticus, Hen. VIII, Langridge is~ returned as worth 
ZVi ij iiij, Launtesdon Chapel is given 
Val in redd@’ firm maiij 
ibm unacii terr dnic’ ibm 
p a™ ci vjs vilid de exit’ nundin’ ibm ' 
Is worth in the rent of the farm of the 
’ manor there, together with the demesne £ 5S. @. 
lands there, by the year, with 6s. 8d. of Vill... 21X), 94x 
the issues of the fair there 
No tithes belonged to the Chapel. One acre of land seems to 
have fallen into the possession of the Bath Corporation, as a 
lease of a piece of land “lying neere the chappell at Lansdowne 
called St. John his Parrock” was grantedt to the son of the 
then Rector of Langridge in 1616 and I think now forms part 
of the glebe. 
The plans and elevations of the chapel have been so accurately 
drawn by Mr. W. Gill that it is unnecessary for me to describe it. 
The roof of the chancel and nave was taken down about fourteen 
years ago, and from what I can learn seems to have possessed 
* Bath Cart., 861, p. 172. + Bath Corporation Records. 
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