The Society’s MSS.—Chiseldon and Draycot. 41 
of the same. This last-named lady was thrice married, first to 
Thomas lord de Roos, secondly to Edmund Beaufort, Duke of 
_ Somerset, and thirdly to Walter Rodesley. Her son and heir was 
Thomas, lord de Roos, attainted as a Lancastrian in 1461. The 
~ attainder was reversed in 1485, in favour of her grandson, Edmund, 
Lord de Roos, but Draycote Foliot, why or wherefore we are unable 
as yet to say, continued—as we have seen by the lease made to 
Thomas Webb—in the King’s hands, and was known as “ parcel 
of Coperceoners landes.”’ 
Such, in the most condensed form, is the history, or rather the | 
suggested history, of the chief estate in Draycote. The ecclesi- 
_ astical history of the place we are unable to trace at all, prior to the 
grant by Queen Elizabeth in August, 1564, of the advowson of 
_ Dreycott Follyat, to certain persons, who—a week later—granted 
it to Thomas Chatterton, esq.. These dates are taken from an 
_ indenture, never executed, to which we shall come presently, and 
_ may probably be accepted as correct. Hight years later, at any 
rate, it was in Chatterton’s possession, when he joined in an arrange- 
ment set out in the following documents. 
_ All these documents were included in Mr, John Mullings’ (1897) 
donation, and are (1) the original deed, executed by the Bishop of 
Salisbury, with three separate deeds by lord Chandos, Thomas 
Chatterton, and the vicar of Chiseldon respectively, annexed to it ; 
(2) copies of all the above, extracted from the bishop’s Registry ; 
(3) a translation of the. whole by Mr. Frome, the registrar. We 
have taken No. 1 for our text, adding an endorsement from No. 2, 
and appending the whole of No. 3. 
_ “UNIVERSIS SANCTE MATRIS ecclesie filiis ad quos presentes litere pervenerint 
Epmunovvs providentia dei Sarum Episcopus Salutem gratiam et benedictionem 
Cum Rettoria et ecclesia parochialis de Draycot foliat in comitatu Wiltes diocesis 
nostre Sarum fuit et est in suis decimis juribus proficuis et pertinenciis adeo 
cexilis et depaupertata ita quod ad congruam et sufficientem exhibicionem et 
sustentacionem Rectoris ibidem deo et populo inibi in divinis servituri minime 
sufficiet atque in hujusmodi depaupertatis et exilitatis statu iam diu permansit 
atque ea occasione eo res pervenit vt non solum cancella ecclesie ibidem necnon 
edificia Rectorie predicte pene quasi funditus diruuntur et prostrantur sed etiam 
eadem ecclesia divinis obsequiis jam diu fuit privata et destituta . fuitque et est 
