By ©. E. Ponting, F.S.A. 61 
The rents of the Mere property of the Bettesthorne Chantry are collected to 
the present time, and are now owned by Meyrick Banks, Esq. They are as 
follows (in Mere) :— 
£8. d. £s. da 
Mr. Rumsey’s house, Brought forward £7 4 10 
corner of Church St. 111 8 Mr.Standerwick’s(Castle St.) 7 6 
Chantry Mead 9 2 Cottages opposite Church 18 0 
Chantry House Be 9 12 House in Castle St. (Bun- 
Walton’s House 13 4 galow) 0 
On Jesse’s property, Zeals 9 0 Mr. Walton’s shop 19 0 
House in ChurchSt.(Harding) 6 0 
Charles Lander (Brewery) 6 6 
es £10 5 4 
Carried forward £7 4 10 ——— 
List of hatchments in the Bettesthorne Chantry Chapel. 
On the south wall :— 
The easternmost is Chafin, probably that of one of the sons of William and 
Mary Chafin, who inherited the estate and died a bachelor. Arms.—Gules, a 
talbot passant, or, a chief ermine. 
_ West of the last is the hatchment of William Chafin, who died 1695. He 
married Mary Freke. The arms are: Chafin quartering Erlegh and Marsh (?) 
impaling Freke. 
The southernmost, Grove impaling Grove. William ‘Chafin Grove of Zeals, 
M.P., died 1793. He married Elizabeth, daughter of John Grove, of Ferne. 
The second is, Grove impaling Acland. Charles Grove, M.D., of Salisbury, 
gon of William Chafin Grove, died 1806. He married Elizabeth, daughter of 
_ Arthur Acland, Esq., of Fairfield. 
The third is, Grove. Chafin Grove, Esq., died a bachelor, 1851. 
On the north wall :— 
(1) The westernmost is that of William Chafin Grove, Esq., who died 1859. 
He married Eleanor Michell, of Standen House, Hungerford, whose arms are 
impaled with those of her husband (2) in the lozenge adjoining. 
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ki On the west wall are as follows :— 
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G. 
A Catalogue of the Contents of the Museum in the Parvise over the North 
Porch of St. Michael's Church, Mere, Wiltshire, established in 1896. 
*.* The name, &c., in parentheses () following the description of each article shows the source 
whence derived. 
Walls :— 
‘Speed’s Map of Wiltshire. (Purehased.) 
Wardour Castle—Samuel and Nathaniel Buck, 1732. (Purchased.) 
“Nunye Castle—Samuel and Nathaniel Buck, 1733. (Thomas H. Baker.) 
