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Ancient Chapels, 6/c, in Co. Wilts. 



Devizes, that it is difficult to pronounce with certainty what 

 the case really was. For instance, a chantry is mentioned as 

 " within the chapel of St. John the Baptist in (he parish of 

 St. Mary ; of the foundation of Richard Cardmaker, worth 

 £3 3s. 4d." Another in the " parish church of St. John, 

 founded by John Cardmaker, value £6 3s. 4d. for a priest to 

 pray at the altar of St. Leonard within the said church, for 

 the soul of the said John Cardmaker." It is probable that both 

 the above were within St. John's church : and that there has 

 been some verbal error in the accounts and description of 

 them in various returns from time to time. In the same 

 church, on the south side, is an annexed chapel, built most 

 probably by the family of Beauchamp of Bromham : but no 

 account of its origin or endowment has been met with. 



In St. Mary's were three chantries : two founded by John 

 Coventry, Junior, Mayor of Devizes in 1436 : the third by 

 "William Coventry. [See Mr. Kite's account of them in Wilts 

 Arch. Mag., vol. ii., pp. 250, 253.] There were two Hospitals 

 in or near St. John's church-yard : one founded for lepers 

 before A.D. 1207. The Prior of the Hospital of St. John 

 was instituted by the Bishop of Sarum in 1314. 



Dinton, (lies in Dun worth, but belongs to Warminster Hundred.) 

 The late Mr. Britton says (Beauties of Wilts iii., 327), that 

 " near the site of the present mansion was a Cell or monastic 

 building, for the residence of six nuns belonging to the mon- 

 astery of Shaftesbury." The manor belonged to Shaftesbury 

 Abbey : but Sir R. C. Hoare, in Modern Wilts, says nothing 

 about the Cell at Dinton. 



Ditchampton. See Wilton, infra. 



Downton, (Hundred of Ditto.) In a Survey of Chantries, 1 Edw. 

 YI. 1547, is " Burnell's Chantry founded within the parish 

 church of Downton : Alen Meyrick, aged 56 years, Incumbent. 

 Clear yearly value £3 15s. 4d." 



Draycote Fitz-Payne, (Hundred of Swanborough.) This is a 

 small hamlet under the downs, in the northern part of the 

 parish of Wilcote. It was anciently the property of the 



