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Ancient Chapels, fyc, in Co. Wilts. 



Bishop of Sarura, a sermon was preached 25th September, 

 1673, by Joseph Kelsey, B.D., Rector of Newton Tony, in 

 Wilts. 



Clarendon Palace, near Salisbury, (Hundred of Alderbury.) 

 This was a favourite country residence of several of our early 

 Kings : but by which of them it was originally built is not 

 certainly known. It had a Chapel of All Saints founded by 

 IJen. II., in which the ministrations were supplied by the 

 Canons of Ivy Church, a monastery adjoining the pale of 

 Clarendon Park. A new chapel was built, temp. Hen. III. 

 A font is mentioned in 35 Hen. III., A.D. 1250-1. Sir 

 R. C. Hoare (Alderbury, p. 152), has some curious particulars 

 about the paintings and other embellishments of the Royal 

 Chapel. In 1272 (1 Edw. I.) there were in the palace two 

 chapels, one for the King, the other for the Queen. 



Clatford, (Hundred of Selkley, near Marlborough.) An Alien 

 Priory, belonging to St. Yictor en Caux in Normandy, founded 

 temp. Will. I. by Sir Roger Mortimer. On suppression it 

 was granted to Eton College, but went afterwards by exchange 

 to the Protector Duke of Somerset. 



A chapel is mentioned as here in A.D. 1441-2. " 20 Hen. 

 VI. John Wodeford of Marlborough took away a certain stone 

 in front of the altar in Clatford Chapel, worth 40d., and 

 carried it to Marlborough." [Jones's Index, Inq. ad q. dam- 

 num, p. 384.] 



Codford St. Mary, (Hundred of Heytesbury.) In connection 

 with Codford Church was a Hermitage. Of these solitary 

 institutions, we have historical evidence in a few other parishes 

 in Wilts (as at Fisherton Anger, near Salisbury) : traditions 

 of them in many. A Religious Hermit was however, not the 

 ideal tenant of a cave on a hill side or in a forest, living on 

 roots and berries : but (to use Dr. Ingram's words in his " Me- 

 morials of Codford Church," from which the following account 

 is borrowed) " Hermits had public duties to perform. They 

 were not permitted to retire from the world and avoid its 

 burthens at their own will and pleasure, under the pretence of 



