224 Bradford-upon-Avon. [Parish Church. 
children to synge for the mayntenance of Divine Service, and also to distribute 
to the Poore yerely xiiis iv‘ all which things he hathe done accordinglye. 
‘Also the sayd Parisshe of Bradforde is a greate Parisshe within whiche 
be the number of plxxvj people which receyve the Blessed Communion and no 
Preste to helpe the Vicar there in administracon of the Sacramentis savinge the 
sayd Chauntre Preste. Wherefore the Parishoners desire the Kinges mooste 
honorable Councill to consider them accordingly.” 
In a Record, bearing date a few months after the one just referred 
to, entitled—‘ Particulars for the Sale of Colleges, Chantries &c.,’! 
—we have the above circumstances again recited with the fol- 
lowing additions:— 
“fAemorantum: to wright to the Receavor of Wilshere for payment of these 
folk as heretofore hathe ben used: 
“ Menwranvdurt: ther is no Scole of Gramer ther.” 
From the same document it appears that the property belonging 
to this Chantry, which here is valued at a sum slightly differing 
from that named in previous estimate, viz., at £11 18s. 3d.—(from 
which however was to be deducted the sum of 12s. 4. payable to 
the Lord Arundel out of the lands at Keevil,)—was sold (for twenty- 
two years’ purchase) at £248 10s. 2d. The purchasers seem to 
have been ‘Thomas Horton, Esquire,’ and ‘Richard Byllett,’— 
though’ the record is not specific as to the portion of the lands and 
tenements purchased by each of them. 
Tue VICARAGE. 
It has been already stated that the Rectory of Bradford together 
with the advowson of the living belonged in olden time to the 
Abbess of Shaftesbury, and, since the Reformation, to the Dean 
and Chapter of Bristol. The great Tithes of the whole parish, 
including in this the several chapelries, were commuted, in the 
year 1840, at the sum of £1507 2s. 
The Vicarage now comprises only a portion of what formerly be- 
longed to it. The tithes of the several chapelries have been annexed 
to the Incumbencies of their respective ecclesiastical districts, with 
the exception of Christ Church, Bradford, which is in part endowed 
1 Vol. 68, of the Series of books remaining with the Augmentation Records. 
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