By the Rev. J. E. Jackson. 



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In the Wilts Instit., one Presentation only oceurs, A.D. 1537. 

 At Culne there was also a Free Chapel or Priory of St. John 

 of Jerusalem, then worth £4 4s. lid. In 1 Edw. VI., William 

 Blake aged 26 years was Incumbent. "Hem. The said 

 Incumbent is no preest: but had the said Pryory or Free 

 Chapel given hym for his exhibition, to fynd hym to the 

 Scheie." (Augm. Off.) 



In or near the North Field at Calne is ground called " The 

 Armitage," which is perhaps a corruption of Hermitage. 

 Chadenwyche. See Mere, infra. 



Chalfield, Little or West, (near Bradford on Avon.) The little 

 Church now standing close by the interesting old manor house 

 of Chalfield is the parish Church of Great Chalfield. A small 

 district adjoining is called Little Chalfield, which, it seems, 

 once had a church or chapel of its own. Great Chalfield 

 church, now standing, is not much larger than a good sized 

 room. The church of Chalfield Parva must have been very 

 small indeed. The late Rector of Chalfield, the Rev. Richard 

 Warner, says, (in Gent. Mag., March, 1838) that Little Chal- 

 field belonged to Sherborne Abbey, co. Dorset. This is incorrect. 

 He was misled by a similarity of names (Bradford, &c.) in the 

 two counties of Dorset and Wilts The patronage of Little 

 Chalfield, from A.D. 1362 to 1537, (when it disappears,) was 

 in the lay families of Percy, Rous of Imber, co. Wilts, John 

 Boorne, John Westbury, and Hawise Westbury his widow. 

 There are no remains of the building. 



Chapel Knap, in Corsham parish, (Hundred of Chippenham.) 

 In A.D. 1519 the Tropenell family had the manor of Neston, 

 with the chapel of St. John Baptist, and a close adjoining in 

 the Ridge in Neston. Of this chapel (destroyed and forgotten), 

 I was first made aware by some extracts shown to me that 

 had been taken by a Mr. Waldron many years ago, out of the 

 " Book of Tropenell," a MS. volume (relating to the estates of 

 that old Wilts family) which has been long lost sight of, but 

 was in the custody of Mr. Dickinson, of Bowdon, in 1744. 

 Further evidence has been since met with, viz., among the 



