By the Bev. Prebendary W. B. Jones. 



105 



Turn (see Wilts Mag., xiii., 105) ; and (3) an agreement entered 

 into July, 1267, "on the Eve of St. James the Apostle/' between 

 the said Abbess of Shaftesbury and Henry de Fleg, then Prior of 

 Monkton Farleigh, securing the latter against re-entry, and pro- 

 viding' for suit and service being rendered as heretofore for the lands 

 so granted at the Hundred Court of the Abbess at Bradford. 



Thus matters remained till the dissolution of the Lesser Monas- 

 teries in 1537. At that time Monkton Farleigh, with all its 

 appendages, including among them this chapel of St. Audoen and 

 some 212 acres of land in South Wraxall, fell to the share of the 

 Earl of Hertford, afterwards the Protector Somerset. 



About the year 1550 the principal estate at Monkton Farleigh 

 seems to have been transferred in an exchange by the Earl of Hertford 

 to the See of Salisbury. This land in Wraxall however was reserved, 

 for in a Survey of the Manor of Bradford, dated 1550 — 1560, 1 find 

 the following entry : — 



Smrarall. Ffreeholders there 



That this last entry refers to the property belonging to Monkton 

 Farleigh in South Wraxall is quite evident by an entry we find in 

 a subsequent survey, dated about 1628, which is as follows : — 



An entry among the Records of Chantries 1 (c. 1552), alludes to 

 a Free Chapel in " the Paresshe of South Wroxall/' which, like that 

 of Chaldfield, appears to have been in the hands of Sir John Thynne. 

 This worthy knight was Secretary to the Earl of Hertford, and 

 possibly from his patrons, who had large grants of confiscated church 

 lands in Wilts, was rewarded with a few crumbs. The natural ex- 

 planation would seem to be, that whilst the lord reserved for himself the 



Robert Long, Esquier 



John Collett 



The Earl of Hertford 



XXXV s . 



XV s . 



xxij s . ij d . 



The Lord Brooke holdeth freely the Farm and 

 certain Lands in Wraxall late Edward Earl of 

 Hartford and anciently did belong to the Priory 

 of Farleigh and payeth yearly out of it 



1 See Wilts Mag., xii., 380 (No. 84.) 



