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it, as are also a few pieces of carved stone which can still be seen 

 at Elcombe Hall. 



After the year 1448 we hear nothing more of the chapel, and 

 but little more of the Lovels, owing probably to the Civil Wars of 

 the Koses, and the disturbed state of the country. 



Francis, the eleventh and last Lord Lovel, who had been a fol- 

 lower of Eichard III., and who fought for him at Bosworth Field, 

 was certainly not more loved than was his royal master, as is shown 

 by the political skit, 



"The Cat, the Eat, and Lovel the Dog 

 Euled all England under the Hogg," 



which rhyme is said by Aubrey^ to have been made by a Wiltshire- 

 man named Collingbourne, who owned land at one time at 

 Quidhampton near Wroughton, and who also got into trouble in 

 those days and forfeited his lands. 



Lovel ^ escaped from the battle of Bosworth Field, where King 

 Eichard was killed; but having joined Lambert Simnel and 

 fled after the battle of Stoke in Northampton, he was never seen 

 alive again. The story has been told of his skeleton being found, 

 some two hundred years later, by workmen in the cellar of his 

 house at Minster Lovel, but, though this story is probably 

 unfounded, without doubt his lands were confiscated to the 

 Crown on his attainder, when Elcombe, Salthrop, and the other 

 Wiltshire possessions, were granted by Henry VIII. in 1515 to 

 Sir William Compton, and finally sold by his grandson to Thomas 

 Sutton, the founder of the Charterhouse, in London. 



Sutton who had already acquired the ancient buildings and land, 

 which, till the dissolution of the monasteries, had belonged to the 

 monks of the Charter House in London, endowed his new hospital 

 with the whole of his Wiltshire property in 1611 ; and thus 

 as was said by the Lord Cliief Justice of that day : — " The 

 Soile which in ancient time was given by Sir Walter de Manny, a 

 Knight and a Soldier, for the Sepulture of Poor men when they 

 were dead, is now by Thomas Sutton, an Esquire and a soldier, 

 converted and consecrated to the sustenance of the poor and im- 

 potent while they live." 

 1 Aubrey & Jackson, Wilts Coll., p. 248. ^ Craik & Macfarlane, Vol. III., 290. 



