By the Rev. J. E. Jackson. 



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1308, to A.D., 1448. [Wilts Inst.] The chapel was destroyed 

 many years ago : it is believed to have stood in a field opposite 

 to Elcombe Farm, now belonging to the Charter House, London. 



Enford. (Elstub and Everley Hundred.) Meeting in Stevens's 

 Monast., ii., 501, with a Benedictine Monastery of St. Margaret 

 at Elenfordesmer in the Diocese of Salisbury, Sir R, C. Hoare 

 presumed that name to have been corrupted into Enford : and 

 accordingly (Hist, of E. & E., p. 19.) has placed the Monastery 

 here, and printed a Bull of Pope Alexander III. relating to it. 

 But Sir R. C. Hoare overlooked the statement of Bishop 

 Tanner (Notitia, Mon. p. 17) that Elenfordsmer Monastery 

 was in Chadelvvorth Parish in Berks (formerly in the Diocese 

 of Salisbury,) and was afterwards called Poughley or Poggele 

 Monastery. The manor of Chadelworth and Advowson of Pough- 

 ley Priory were given to Ambresbury Monastery 21 Ed. I. 



In Enford Church was" Westley's Chantry. The Incumbent 

 in 1547 was Richard Norres aged 56. The Yssues of the same 

 rysing on the hyre of 886 shepe, by the yere £7 14s. 6d." 

 [Survey, Augra. Office.] See also Combe. 



Escote, Escott or Eastcote [Yalor Eccles.], in the parish of 

 Erchfont. In 1 Edw. VI. 1547, was confiscated "The Free 

 Chappell of Escott. Robert Hill, aged 53 years, Incumbent, 

 yearly value £2." 



Near Easterton, just out of the high road from Easterton to 

 Erchfont, attached to a modern house built on a farm of Mr. 

 Drax's are remains of an ancient dwelling said to have been 

 part of this Chapel. Above the farm is a field called Chapel 

 Field where traces of interment have been found. The chapel 

 is marked on the map of the Valor Eccles. From 1319 to 

 1340, the presentations to it belonged to a family of 

 Ashton, lords of the vill ; afterwards to the Rector and 

 convent of Edingdon. The chapel was destroyed. The 

 tradition at Erchfont is, that of the two transepts in Erchfont 

 Church, one was then appropriated to the inhabitants of Eastcot 

 tything, the other to Wedhampton. 



Ewelme, in the parish of Kemble, (Malmesbury Hundred.) (Called 



