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mark’ which may still be seen on a brass in the Church, and a 
representation of which is here given. 
Before we leave the subject of Chantries we may mention, that 
aceording to the enquiry made in the reign of Henry VIIL., just 
prior to the Reformation, two Chantries. are reported as connected 
with the Parish Church; probably the two of whose foundation we 
have just given an account. They were each of them valued at 
£10 per annum, one of them being held by William Bryd (or 
Birde) who was also the vicar, and the other by Thomas Horton.’ 
In the time of Edward VI. the Chantry, which, like all others, 
had by the authority of Parliament been granted to the king, was 
sold by the Crown to ...... Horton, a member, no doubt, of 
the family of the original founder.? 
1 Valor Ecclesiasticus, ii. 81. Who this Thomas Horton was it is difficult to 
say, the more so as in the account given of the deductions from the gross value 
of the Chantry is the following entry :— ‘‘ Unde in operibus charitatis ex 
ordinacione sua per annum liy* iv’.”—As the founder of the Chantry was 
a merchant, and a married man, it cannot allude to him. The only plausible 
conjectures that can be formed are, either that the founder died before he drew 
up his ‘ordinatio’ and left that task to a relation having the same christian 
name; or that in the Valor Ecclesiasticus, Thomas is a mistake for James, who 
according to the Pedigree in the Visitation both for 1565 and 1623, is called a 
‘priest’ and a brother of a Thomas Horton, and who might be living in 1535; 
both of them being sons of John Horton, described as of Lullington, Co. Somer- 
set. This may be the James Horton, Clerk, mentioned in this Magazine, i. 296. 
But all this is mere conjecture. 
2 Augmentation Office ‘‘A. Bundle H. ii. No. 19. Immediately adjoining the 
vicarage garden, which itself is close to the church, is a large field called Chan- 
try Field, and the house that is built on it is called Chantry House. Probably 
the land was itself originally the endowment of the Chantry. An older house, 
moreover, perhaps stood on the site of the present one, in which the Chantry 
Priests resided. 
