By the Rev. Prebendary W. H. Jones. 



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Walker, in his account of the Manor-House of South Wraxall, 

 alludes to this building as "the chapel called St. Ad wyne's alias 

 St. Edwynes, alias St. Jewen's/' quoting from Beltz' Genealogical 

 Collections relative to the Family of Long (p. 18). The last name 

 is probably a clerical error for St. Teivens} a natural corruption 

 enough of St. Oueu, the more common designation of him to whom 

 this chapel was dedicated. St. Audoen, otherwise St. Ouen, was 

 Archbishop of Rouen A.D. 640 — 683. He would seem to have been 

 had in honor in England, for William of Malmesbury tells us that 

 Queen Emma, after the death of Ethelred II., about the year 1040, 

 fled to Rouen, and then obtaining by bribes to the monks the 

 remains of St. Ouen, translated them in the first instance to 

 Malmesbury Abbey. 2 It was not unnatural that a French saint 

 should be chosen as the patron saint to whom this " ecclesiola" should 

 be dedicated, for the priory of Monkton Farleigh, of which it was, 

 so to speak, a daughter, was itself a " cell 33 or house subordinate to 

 the Priory of Lewes, which was the greatest of those religious 

 foundations in this country that owned allegiance to the celebrated 

 Benedictine House, at Clugni in Burgundy founded in A.D. 890. 

 The Prior at Lewes was in fact the head of the order of Clugniac 

 Monks in England. 



The purpose of this foundation of St. Audoen's was no doubt 

 partly religious, and partly a carrying out of the ancient spirit of 

 eare for the stranger and the pilgrim. It was one of those Hospitia 

 which were stationed at various places, to afford a wayfaring man, 

 especially if he were bent on a religious errand, such as a visit to 

 some holy place or shrine, food and shelter on his journey. It would 

 seem to be the way in which, in the middle ages, our forefathers 

 tried to carry out the precept once given to God's ancient people, 

 " Love ye therefore the stranger ; for ye were strangers in the land 

 of Egypt/'' (Deut. xi., 19.) Leland, when speaking both of the 



1 So, I observe, Canon Jackson spells it, in his brief account of this chapel, 

 in bis paper on the " Ancient Chapels of Wilts." — Wilts Mag., x. 321. 



3 " Beatissimi Audoeni Rotomagensis Archiepiscopi reliquiae in cenobium 

 nostrum evectEe sunt." — Win. of Malmesb., " Gest. Tontif.," p. 419, (Rolls 

 Series.) 



