318 



Milt0|^iu Cljitnttg J[uintitute. 



^j^^.HE following document, found among' the papers belonging 

 |j>Mf^ to Miss Chafyn Grove, of Zeals House, near Mere, is 

 dated 15tli June, 1548. 



The sale of all furniture belonging to the chantry chapels was 

 ordei'ed at the instigation of John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland ; 

 and, judging from two inventories of Wiltshire chantries that are 

 preserved, some of the dresses, service books, and plate must have 

 been costly and curious. Those two are, 1st, a list of the articles 

 in Swayne's Chantry, in St. Thomas's Church, Salisbury, printed 

 in Hatcher and Benson, p. 264 ; and 2nd, a list of those in the 

 Hungerford Chapel, in Salisbury Cathedral, printed in the Wiltshire 

 Archaological Magazine, vol. xi., p. 334. All contained in the fol- 

 lowing list were purchased in one lot by Thomas Chafyn, of Mere, 

 who had bought the lands of the Berkeley Chantry in Mere Church ; 

 and it is evident, from the inferior quality and condition of the 

 articles described in it, that those of a more valuable kind, not only 

 in the two chantries above-mentioned, but probably in many others 

 also, had been previously selected and disposed of in some different 

 way. There were many other chantry chapels in Wilts besides 

 those mentioned in this list. 



For easier reference an alphabetical list of parishes is prefixed. 



J. E. Jackson. 



No. 



Albourne. Fraternity 35 



Alton. Free chapel 15 



Bradford. Horton's Chantry 25 



„ r St. Mary Magdalen Chantry 23 



Caine. \ J o J 



V. Our Lady's do. 24 



St. John Baptist's Chantry 28 



Chippenham. <j Our Lady's 29 



St. Katharine's Fraternity 26 



