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Zouche, Esq., to whom the property was sold by the Crown, 

 33. Hen. VIII., was bound to maintain out of the great tithes 

 a Chaplain in the Church, and a Curate for the parish. [Sir 

 R. C. Hoare's Hist, of Dunworth, p. 62]. The present little 

 Church is very old, and may have been used by the Hospitalars. 



Ashleigh, near Bradford on Avon. The Rev. W. H. Jones, Vicar 

 of Bradford, thinks there was a chapel here. There is a field 

 still called the "Church-field," belonging to the Misses 

 Bailward, in which a stone coffin, still to be seen, was dug up ; be- 

 sides other traces of a burial ground. [Wilts Arch. Mag. v. 37.] 



Asserton, alias Winterbourne Parva, in the parish of Berwick 

 St. James, (Hundred of Branch and Dole). The Inquis. post 

 M. (15 Rich. II.) A.D. 1391, mentions a Free Chapel within 

 the mansion (infra mansionem) of John Paulet, Kt. Sir R. C. 

 Hoare (B & D., p. 185.) says of a chapel at Asserton, that " It 

 was founded early, and had regular Institutions for some time, 

 but appears to have fallen into disuse before the Reformation, 

 when the Incumbent was returned as a layman, and to hold it 

 as a school exhibition." To this chapel there were presenta- 

 tions from A.D. 1298 to 1493. [Wilts Inst.] In 1. Edw. VI. 

 " The Free chappel of Asserton was held by Giles Thistle- 

 thwayte, aged 26 years." 



Avebury, or Abury, (Selkley Hundred.) An estate in this parish 

 was given by King Henry the first's chamberlain of Normandy, 

 William de Tancarville, to the Benedictine Monks of St. 

 George of Boscarville in that country : and so the monks 

 established at Avebury became an Alien Priory to the foreign 

 house of St. George. When suppressed as Alien, it was at 

 one time given to St. Mary's Winchester College, Oxford : but 

 was afterwards in Hen. IV., annexed to Fotheringhay College 

 Co. Northampton, and was sold at the Dissolution, to Sir 

 William Sharington. Of any church or chapel specially 

 belonging to the monks there are no remains. The church 

 close by has some very ancient features. 



Avon, or Aven. Free chapel, near Christian Malford. The history 

 of this (so far as known) is given in the notes to Wiltshire 



