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family. i The other St. Lo chapel was dedicated to St. Mary 

 Magdalene, and had land at Stock and Stockley, and several houses 

 in Devizes. John Somerfield seems to have been the last chaplain. 

 There was also in the Church an altar appropriated to St. Edmund, 

 which had a special chaplain and daily mass. This service was 

 founded in connection with a religious house called the Hospital, 

 Priory, or Free Chapel of St. John of Jerusalem. This is described 

 as lying "juxta Eldebrook" — near some stream called the Old 

 Brook. By whom or when first founded does not appear, but Ernald 

 the Prior and his brethren are mentioned so early as the reign of 

 King John. A chief supporter of it was Sir Robert de Hungerford, 

 who in 13 '3 6 endowed it with sundry lands at Stock, Stockley, 

 Quemerfbrd, and Tasworth, on condition of maintaining the service 

 at St. Edmund's Altar in the Church just mentioned, for the soul 

 of Gena, his wife, and others. The mass to be said by the second 

 presbyter in rank in the priory every day except Sundays and 

 festivals, when the ordinary Service of the Church would be sufficient. 

 A fine of twelve per,ce for every omission. If omitted for a fortnight 

 all to be forfeited. Sir Robert provided also vestments and a green 

 hanging powdered with white crosses. The fine of twelve pence 

 does not seem to have alarmed the parties concerned, for the Service 

 at St. Edmund's Altar fell into neglect so completely that about a 

 hundred years after it had been founded a descendant of Sir Robert, 

 Walter, Lord Hungerford, obtained a license to sever this part of 

 the endowment from the priory, and apply it to another chantry 



1 In 43 Eliz. (1600) On the death of Edith, wife of John Seager, 30th May, 

 it was found by an iuquisition p.m., that John Seager held, in right of his wife, 

 four acres in Abbard's Mead, late parcel of the possessions of Stanley Abbey : 

 a close called " Seale's " : lands in Compton Basset : thirteen and a half acres in 

 the fields of Calne, late parcel of the chantry called 14 Our Lady's Chantry," 

 founded within the Church at Calne. "Abbard's" was held of the Crown in 

 chief ; and *' Seale's " also by military service of the twentieth part of a knight's 

 fee. The chantry lands, of the Crown in socage. [Wilts Fines.] The close 

 called " Seales " had been given to the chantry, to maintain a " Paschal Taper" s 

 i.e., a taper for watching the sepulchre at Easter. 



Some deeds relating to the Stanley Abbey property in Calne are mentioned in 

 an earlier volume of this Magazine : vol. xv., p. 251. 



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