By the Rev. Canon J. E. Jackson, P.S8.A. 181 
family: The other St. Lo chapel was dedicated to St. Mary 
Magdalene, and had land at Stock and Stockley, and several houses 
in Devizes. John Somerfield seems to have been the last chaplain, 
There was also in the Church an altar appropriated to St. Edmund, 
which had a special chaplain and daily mass. This service was 
founded in connection with a religious house called the Hospital, 
Priory, or Free Chapel of St. John of Jerusalem. This is described 
as lying “juxta Eldebrook”—near some stream called the Old 
Brook. By whom or when first founded does not appear, but Ernald 
the Prior and his brethren are mentioned so early as the reign of 
‘King John. A chief supporter of it was Sir Robert de Hungerford, 
who in 1336 endowed it with sundry lands at Stock, Stockley, 
Quemerford, and Tasworth, on condition of maintaining the service 
at St. Edmund’s Altar in the Church just mentioned, for the soul 
of Gena, his wife, and others. The mass to be said by the second 
presbyter in rank in the priory every day except Sundays and 
festivals, when the ordinary Service of the Church would be sufficient. 
A fine of twelve pence for every omission. If omitted for a fortnight 
all tu be furfeited. Sir Robert provided also vestments and a green 
hanging powdered with white crosses. The fine of twelve pence 
does not seem to have alarmed the parties concerned, for the Service 
at St. Edmund’s Altar fell into neglect so completely that about a 
hundred years after it had been founded a descendant of Sir Robert, 
Walter, Lord Hungerford, obtained a license to sever this part of 
the endowment from the priory, and apply it to another chantry 
1In 43 Eliz. (1600) On the death of Edith, wife of John Seager, 30th May, 
it was found by an iuquisition p.m., that John Seager held, in right of his wife, 
four acres in Abbard’s Mead, late parcel of the possessions of Stanley Abbey : 
a close called “ Seale’s”” : lands in Compton Basset ; thirteen and a half acres in 
the fields of Calne, late parcel of the chantry cailed ‘* Our Lady’s Chantry,” 
founded within the Church at Calne. ‘‘ Abbard’s” was held of the Crown in 
chief ; and “‘ Seale’s ” also by military service of the twentieth part of a knight’s 
fee. The chantry lands, of the Crown in socage. [Wilts Fines.] The close 
called “ Seales” had been given to the chantry, to maintain a “ Paschal Taper” ¢ 
i.e., a taper for watching the sepulchre at Easter. 
Some deeds relating to the Stanley Abbey properfy in Calne are mentioned in 
an earlier volume of this Magazine ; vol. xv., p. 251. 
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