A HISTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE 
fordshire, of which no record—not even the name—remains. Some are 
only mentioned once, and nothing further is known of their history. 
Of those which are known to have existed the chief were :— 
The chapel of Astwick,’ appendant to Studham church. 
re m Cainhoe” bs Clophill 22 
me - Silsoe® = Flitton = 
m - Pavenham )* 
i id Radwell J” Felmersham ,, 
se i. Knotting® m Melchbourne,, 
= iP Roxhill® bie Marston 2 
ds a Clapham’ - Oakley om 
x eu Barwythe® o Studham ade 
a Tebworth’ a Chalgrave _,, 
Whipsnade” and Woburn are never described as dependant on any 
church, and may have been free chapels. 
Of these, Knotting, Astwick,” and Whipsnade had become parish 
churches before the Taxatio of 1291. Pavenham and Silsoe were not 
independent parishes until the nineteenth century. Woburn and Clap- 
ham were still chapels in the reign of Henry VIII. The others have 
disappeared. 
The occasion of a suit in which the abbot of Woburn was in- 
volved, with reference to the chapel of Hunderigg in Buckingham- 
shire, serves to explain very clearly the purpose for which these chapels 
were intended, and their relation to the parish church ; it is interest- 
ing also as showing what was then considered a proper provision of 
services for a small hamlet in the country. The monks undertook 
to send a clerk three days in the week"—Sunday, Wednesday and Friday, 
and in Advent and Lent Saturday also; he was to sing mass (probably 
mattins also) on these days ; he was to say the office of ‘ Tenebre’ on the 
three last days of Holy Week, and at Christmas to sing the midnight 
mass, and mattins, and the second mass at dawn.” Ifa feast day were to 
fall in September, there was not to be an extra mass, but one of the ferial 
1 Earliest mention in the foundation charter of Chicksand. 
® Only in the foundation charter of Beaulieu ; this priory also served the chapel of St. Machutus 
in the parish of Haynes (Cott. MS. Nero, D vii. f. 92; Claudius, D i. f 135b), said to have been given 
by Robert d’Albini with the cell of Beaulieu. 
3 Earliest mention in the Liber Antiguus ; noticed afterwards frequently in the Lincoln Registers. 
4 Rarliest mention in 1205 (Cal. of Pap. Letiers, i. 18) ; Radwell for the last time in 1363 in the 
Register of Bp. Gynwell. 
5 Farliest mention in 1176 (Gorham, Hist. of St. Neor’s, II. cxiii.). 
6 Earliest mention in 1280 (Linc. Epis. Reg.). 
7 Earliest mention in a charter of St. Hugh, quoted in the Linc. Epis. Reg., Memo. Sutton, 100. 
® Harl. MS. 1885, ff 51, 57. 
® Ann. Mon. (Rolls Series), iii. 277 ; already of long standing. 
Harl. MS. 1885, f. 52b. It has a rector, not a chaplain only. 
14 Astwick was still a chapel in 1242 (Cur. Reg. R. 125, n. 22). The chapels of Sharpenhoe and 
Humbershoe (4a. Mon. [Rolls Series], iii. 141, 257) were probably also parochial. The chapel of St. 
Thomas the Martyr near Chicksand Priory belongs to the thirteenth century (Cal. of Pap. Letters, i. 534) 
and had disappeared before the sixteenth. 
12 Three days was the usual allowance at these chapels. 
13 In order that the parishioners might fulfil their obligation of hearing three masses on Christmas 
Day. 
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