The Society's MSS. — Chiseldon and Dray cot. 



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of the same. This last-named lady was thrice married, first to 

 Thomas lord de Roos, secondly to Edmund Beaufort, Duke of 

 Somerset, and thirdly to Walter Rodesley. Her son and heir was 

 Thomas, lord de Roos, attainted as a Lancastrian in 1461. The 

 attainder was reversed in 1485, in favour of her grandson, Edmund, 

 Lord de Roos, but Dray cote Foliot, why or wherefore we are unable 

 as yet to say, continued — as we have seen by the lease made to 

 Thomas Webb — in the King's hands, and was known as " parcel 

 of Coperceoners landes." 



Such, in the most condensed form, is the history, or rather the 

 suggested history, of the chief estate in Dray cote. The ecclesi- 

 astical history of the place we are unable to trace at all, prior to the 

 grant by Queen Elizabeth in August, 1564, of the advowson of 

 Dreycott Follyat, to certain persons, who — a week later — granted 

 it to Thomas Chatterton, esq. These dates are taken from an 

 indenture, never executed, to which we shall come presently, and 

 may probably be accepted as correct. Eight years later, at any 

 rate, it was in Chatterton's possession, when he joined in an arrange- 

 ment set out in the following documents. 



All these documents were included in Mr. John Mullings' (1897) 

 donation, and are (1) the original deed, executed by the Bishop of 

 Salisbury, with three separate deeds by lord Chandos, Thoinas 

 Chatterton, and the vicar of Chiseldon respectively, annexed to it ; 



(2) copies of all the above, extracted from the bishop's Registry ; 



(3) a translation of the whole by Mr. Frome, the registrar. We 

 have taken No. 1 for our text, adding an_ endorsement from No. 2, 

 and appending the whole of No, 3. 



" Univeesis sancte mateis ecclesie filiis ad quos presentes litere pervenerint 

 Edmundus providentia dei Sarum Episcopus Salutein gratiam et benedictioncm 

 Cum Rectoria et ecclesia parochialis de Draj^cot foliab in comitatu Wiltes diocesis 

 nostre Sarum fuit et est in suis decimis juribus proficuis et pertineuciis adeo 

 exilis et depaupertata ita quod ad congvuam et sufticientem exhibicionem et 

 sustentacionem Rectoris ibidem deo et populo inibi in divinis servituri minima 

 sufficiet atque in hujusmodi depaupertatis et exilitatis statu iam din permansit 

 atque ea occasione eo res pervenit vt non solum cancella ecclesie ibidem necnon 

 edificia Rectorie predicte pene quasi funditus diruuntur et prostrantur sed etiam 

 eadem ecclesia divinis obsequiis jam diu fuit privata et destituta . Euitque el BSt 



