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THE HUNGERFORD CHAPEL (FORMERLY OUTSIDE THE CATHEDRAL), 



NOW DESTROYED. 



The other Chapel belonging to this Family, was outside the 

 Cathedral, and was founded by the order, and in memory of Robert, 

 second Baron Hungerford, son of the High Treasurer. This noble- 

 man also served in the French wars, and was taken prisoner at the 

 battle of Pataye, when the English under Talbot and Sir John 

 Fastolf were panic struck by the superstition belonging to the name 

 of Joan of Arc. (This was in 1429, and, by an odd coincidence, 

 on the 18th of June). He lived, however, to return home, and to 

 marry one of the wealthiest heiresses of the day, Margaret Lady 

 Botreaux, by whom he obtained a vast quantity of manors in 

 Cornwall, Somerset, and elsewhere. He died in 1459. 



His son (also Robert) married another great heiress, Eleanor 

 Lady Molines, and was called, jure uxoris, Lord Molines. He took a 

 very active part on the Lancastrian side in the wars of the Roses, 

 and was beheaded at Hexham, in Northumberland, in 1463. Lord 

 Molines' only son, Sir Thomas Hungerford, Knight, was tried at 

 Salisbury for High Treason, on a charge of attempting to restore 

 Henry VI. to the throne, for which he was condemned and beheaded 

 at Bemerton gallows in 1469. The estates were forfeited, but by 

 the arrangement and prudence of Lady Hungerford and Botreaux, 

 who survived the temporary wreck of the family, all was afterwards 

 restored. 



There are several documents preserved, which contain a rather 

 curious account of this lady's efforts to preserve the fortune of her 

 house. In one of them, which she calls "a writing annexed" to her 

 will, dated 1476, she details all the expense she had incurred and 

 the \arious personal hardships and losses she had undergone. 

 Amongst these, she mentions the circumstance of her having been 

 herself in arrest during the late troublous times. Her son and 

 grandson haying laid down their heads on the block, in their efforts 

 to deprive Edward IV. of the throne, it is not improbable that she 

 became an object of suspicion as an abettor, and that at any rate 



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