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By C. E. Ponting, FS.A. 
5d 
C. 
1“Tnventarium factum in Ecclesia de 
Mera, per W. Decanum Sarum, Anno 
D’ni MCCXX. qui erat annus tertius 
Pontificatus Ric’i Sar. Ep’i, in vigilia 
S’ti Michaelis. 
“ Eeclesia fundata est in honore 
Sancti Michaelis Archangeli et sunt ibi 
in majori ecclesia‘ tria altaria, unum in 
honore beatz Virginis et unum in honore 
beati Thome martiris et unum in honore 
S. Marie Magdalene. Sunt etiam in 
ipsa parochia due capellz pertinentes ad 
eandem ecclesiam capella de Seles que 
est de Sancto Martino cui debetur offi- 
cium tribus diebus per ebdomadam et 
alia capella apud Chaundeswic que est 
de eodem sancto et idem debetur ei offi- 
cium. Item alia capella apud Deverel 
quam tenet Walterus decanus pro quat- 
uor marcis per quatuor terminos anni 
et est capella de Sancto Andrea et est 
de dominio canonicorum Cenomansium 
quorum terra [sic] habet Ricardus de 
Dernefordad firmam. Ecclesia dedicata, 
cancellum discoopertum, cymiterium 
- non clausum bestiis pervium. Item est 
ibi turris cum quatuor campanis. 
5“Galfridus Capellanus annuus per- 
_ cipit omnia preter garbas et fenum, et 
 habet 
reddit inde 8 mare.ad 4 term’ anni. Et 
Capellanum secum, 
_ et Diaconum, et facit deservire duabus 
capellis. 
“ Hii sunt Libri ecclesiz de Mere unum 
{ [in margin, “de dono Ate Decani”] missale 
 novum et sufficiens cum nota sufiici- 5 
1 Hoare. 
” 
5 “ Galfridus ’—* capellis,” Hoare. 
Dr. Baron. 
“An Inventory made in the Church 
of Mere by W——* Dean of Sarum 
A.D. 1220, which was the third year 
of the consecration of Richard,? Bishop 
of Salisbury, on the eve of St. Michael. 
“The Church is founded in honour 
of St. Michael the Archangel, and there 
are in the larger Church three altars ; 
1 in honour of the Blessed Virgin; 1 
in honour of St. Thomas the Martyr ; 
1 in honour of St. Mary Magdalene. 
In this parish are also 2 chapels be- 
longing to the same Church : the chapel 
of Zeals which is St. Martin’s, to which 
is due service three days a week ; another 
chapel at Chadenwych which is of the 
same saint, and the same service is due 
to it. There is also another chapel at 
Deverel, which Dean Walter holds for 
4 marks, by the 4 terms of the year, 
and the chapel is of St. Andrew, and is 
of the demesne of the Canons of Le 
Mans, whose land Richard de Derneford 
has to farm. 
“ The Church is consecrated, the chan- 
cel uncovered, the graveyard now first 
fenced against beasts. ‘There is also a 
tower with 4 bells. Geoffery the yearly 
chaplain receives all except sheaves and 
hay, and renders therefrom 8 marks at 
the 4 terms of the year. And he has 
chaplain with him, and a 
deacon, and provides service at the two 
chapels. 
“These are the books of the Church 
of Mere. One missal (of the gift of 
Not given by Malden. 
2 William de Wanda was Dean of Sarum, A.D. 1220 to 1226. 
8 Richard Poore became Bishop of Salisbury in A.D. 1217, and was promoted 
to Durham, A.D, 1229. 
_ 4The phrase “major ecclesia” is used to discriminate between the parish 
_ Church and the three chapels of Zeals, Chadenwich, and Deverel, which were 
also in the parish. 
Not given by Malden, but translated by 
