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Value. 



founded by him at Heytesbury. The priory itself, as a college for 

 brethren, seems to have become gradually extinct, for in the first 

 year of Edward VI. there was but one individual left to represent 

 it, and he was not a priest, but some young 1 person to whom the 

 income was given as an exhibition, "to find him in school." The 

 lands and tenements were sold to one Rundall 1 



Some further particulars relating to Calne Church will be found 

 in the Appendix to this paper, No II. 



Studley Chapel. 



A chapel at Studley is mentioned in records at Salisbury of the 

 year 1240. [Jones's Fasti, page 344.] 



Treasurer and Patron. 



Of the Treasurers in Salisbury Cathedral, for so many years 

 patrons of the vicarage of Calne, a complete list, from A.D. 1108 to 

 the present time is printed in the late Canon Rich Jones's work called 

 " Fasti Ecclesiae Sarisburiensis," p. 848. But their history belongs 

 rather to Salisbury than to Calne : for with the exception of Edmund 

 Rich none of them appears to have taken any active part in parish 

 administration. Edmund Rich was a native of Abingdon : remarkable 

 for learning and practical piety, who studied at Oxford and Paris, and 

 (according to Anthony a Wood and Alban Butler) was one of the first 

 who taught Aristotle's philosophy at Oxford, from 1219 to 1226. 

 Not satisfied with the fixed duties of a Fellowship he made constant 

 tours through the neighbouring counties "preaching the Word of 

 God with great fruit and zeal." Having refused many preferments 

 in the Church he at last accepted the office of a Canon and Treasurer 

 o£ the Cathedral of Salisbury, to which diocese Abingdon then 



1 St. Edmund's Chapel, on the north side of the Church, somehow or other had 

 obtained the vulgar name of the Horse- market. In the old council Book of the 

 corporation there is an item : "in the year 1651 for carrying of strawe to the 

 Church xviij d ." It is possible that this litter may have been supplied at the 

 public expense for Cromwell's troopers, who are traditionally said to have been 

 stabled in the Church. Their (non-ecclesiastical) stalls may have been in this 

 chapel, which may thus have obtained the name of Horse-market. 



