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Collections for a History of West Dean. 



Robert de Borbach, aforesaid, and my heirs or assigns, will be answerable for, 

 quit, and defend to the aforesaid Edward, priest, and his successors, and the 

 said chantry [for the masses said or to be said] for the souls aforesaid the 

 aforesaid annual rent charge of a hundred shillings, for ever In testimony of 

 which I have to this present deed affixed my seal ; these being witnesses ; the 

 lord Walter de Escote, John de Grymstede, Adam Atteforde, Knights, John 

 de Grymsted, William de LosteshuU, Stephen Loveras, John Payn, John le frere, 

 John Henry, Nicholas Hulon, Robert Bouersham [? Beauchamp] William Hulon, 

 and others. Given at Little Sombourn on the Monday next after the feast of 

 All Saints, in the seventh year of the reign of King Edward the third after the 

 Conquest. I, J. de B., have seen the deed sealed as aforesaid." [Nov. 7, 1333.] 



The fine paid to the Crown on alienation of this rent charge was 

 twenty marks, as appears from the following extract (" Cal: Rot: 

 Orig: 17 Edw. II., Rol. 17, p. 275) :— 



" Eobertus de Borbach finem facit cum rege per xx marcas pro licentia dandi 

 quemdam redditum in Grymstede cuidam capellano ad, &c. 



The Wiltshire Institutions supply the following list of chaplains: — 



There is no record, so far as I am aware, of the dissolution of the 

 chantry. 



From the survey of chantries, obits, lamps, &c , made in 1546, it 

 appears that : — 



" William Andrewes founded iij lampes, and j taper out of a tenement xiiij''. 

 at West Dean." * 



In 1553 the King's Commissioners, Sir Anthony Hungerforde, 

 William Sherrington, and William Wroughton, Knights, " delivered 



• Vol. xii. of this journal, pp. 381, 369. 



