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into the market, being an agreement about building a Lady Chapel, 
attached to the Abbey Church of Lacock, in 1315. This was 
purchased by Mr. Edwards, and, when I learned that it was in his 
possession, I, at once, wrote to him and asked permission to copy 
it and publish it in the Magazine. This he, very kindly, allowed 
me to do, and ultimately he bequeathed it to me, by his will, to be 
preserved with the other records of the Abbey of Lacock, where it 
now is. I am therefore peculiarly indebted to him. 
I think, if a tangible memorial to the late Mr. Edwards were 
desired, there could be no better one than to replace, in Amesbury 
Church, its ancient screen. It should never have been removed, 
but it seems to be always easier to remove such objects of interest 
_ than to get them replaced. 
Alotes on Amesbury Church. 
By Rev. C. S. Rupp.e. 
[Read at the Amesbury Meeting of the Society, 1899.] 
¥ AM allowed to say as briefly as may be why it seems to 
me that the Church of Amesbury is the old Parish Church 
and not the Priory Church deemed superfluous in Henry the 
Eighth’s time. A Parish Church for a parish, the greater part of 
__ which by far had not been at any time owned by the convent, could 
hardly have been judged superfluous.! At the dissolution the lands 
‘ belonging to the abbey in the parish seem to have been 318 acres 
‘ with feed for 374 sheep. Now assuming that only one-third of 
1 Instructions from -y® Crown (x. 71) :— « : 
~ “Deemed to be superfluous The Church, Cloister . . . Infirmary with 
x the Chapel, Cloister, and lodgings adjoining.” 
