222 Bradford-upon-Avon. [Parish Church. 
Henry VIII. (1530;) his wife ‘Mary’ was living in 1538, but died 
in, or before, 1545.! 
The statements contained in the ‘Valor Ecclesiastious” are by no 
means confirmed by subsequent Records. Among the documents 
contained in the late Court of Augmentations (Carlton Ride) we 
have three returns to Commissions of enquiry on the subject of 
colleges and Chantries, &c., and in none of these is there any men- 
tion at all of the former Chantry in the Parish Church. Their 
statements are at variance moreover with the first-named record as 
to the value of Horton’s Chantry. Possibly the former Chantry, 
which was in 1533 held by the Vicar, was but a temporary foundation, 
or was endowed with lands held on lives or on lease, the tenure of 
which was determined in due course and was not renewed. Of this 
character may have been the one we alluded to in a previous page 
(38), which was founded by Reginald Halle, as early as 7 Henry 
V. (a..v 1420.) 
Of ‘Horton’s Chantry’ we have full and detailed accounts. Of 
the Commission of Enquiry conducted in 37 Henry VIII. by ‘John, 
Bishop of Sarum, Sir Thomas Seymour, Knight, Robert Chydley, 
Esquire, and Thomas Leigh and William Grene, Gentlemen,’ we 
have two reports; the one being a complete account of all the 
lands and tenements belonging to the said Chantry together with 
the rents issuing therefrom, the names of the various tenants, the 
precise nature of the several tenures, &c. ; and the other a summary of 
the principal matters relating to it, in the form of answers to certain 
articles of enquiry, to which the attention of the Commissioners 
was especially directed. Of a subsequent, and third enquiry, con- 
ducted by ‘John Thynne and William Wroughton, Knights, Charles 
Bulkeley, John Barwycke and Thomas Chafynne, Esquires, William 
1 This last fact we learn from the leasing out of certain of the lands, which 
formed the endowment of this Chantry, situated at Kebyll (Keevil) in Wilts, 
to ‘William Lucas’ for the term of forty years, ‘such term commencing from 
the decease of Mary widow of Thomas Horton,’ who (the record goes on to say) 
is now (1545) dead ;—(‘termino predicto incipiente post mortem Marie Horton 
vidue que quidem e vita decessit.’) ‘Certificates of Colleges and Chantries, No. 
59, Wilts,’ among the Records of the late Court of Augmentations, bela 
the Court of Exchequer. 
