Notes on Amesbury Church. 



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into the market, being an agreement about building a Lady Chapel, 

 attached to the Abbey Church of Lacock, in 1315. This was 

 purchased by Mr. Edwards, and, when I learned that it was in his 

 possession, I, at once, wrote to him and asked permission to copy 

 it and publish it in the Magazine. This he, very kindly, allowed 

 me to do, and ultimately he bequeathed it to me, by his will, to be 

 preserved with the other records of the Abbey of Lacock, where it 

 now is. I am therefore peculiarly indebted to him. 



I think, if a tangible memorial to the late Mr. Edwards were 

 desired, there could be no better one than to replace, in Amesbury 

 Church, its ancient screen. It should never have been removed, 

 but it seems to be always easier to remove such objects of interest 

 than to get them replaced. 



Jtotes on gntfshrg Cjrawjj. 



By Eev. C. S. Euddle. 



[Head at the Amesbury Meeting of the Society, 1899.] 



AM allowed to say as briefly as may be why it seems to 

 me that the Church of Amesbury is the old Parish Church 

 and not the Priory Church deemed superfluous in Henry the 

 Eighth's time. A Parish Church for a parish, the greater part of 

 which by far had not been at any time owned by the convent, could 

 hardly have been judged superfluous. 1 At the dissolution the lands 

 belonging to the abbey in the parish seem to have been 318 acres 

 with feed for 374 sheep. Now assuming that only one-third of 



1 Instructions from y e Crown (x. 71) : — 



" Deemed to be superfluous The Church, Cloister . . . Infirmary with 

 the Chapel, Cloister, and lodgings adjoining." 



