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Ancient Chapels, fyc, in Co. Wilts. 



Fisherton Delamere. (Of tho Hundred of Warminster: but 

 for Sir R. C. Iloarc's account of it, see his Heytesbury.) A 

 chantry of the Delamere family in the church was endowed 

 with £6 3s. 4d. a year arising out of Fisherton : which rent 

 was granted in 3 Eliz. to William, Marquis of Winchester. 

 The chantry was on the north side of the church. 



Fittleton, (Elstub and Everley Hundred.) Free Chapel of 

 Fittleton, clear value £3 5s. John Blythe, Incumbent, aged 

 56 years. (1 Edw. VI., 1547.) 



Fonthill Abbey. This name is merely introduced for the purpose 

 of saying that there was never any ancient endowed abbey, or 

 other kind of religious house at Fonthill GifFord. 



Fovant, (Hundred of Cawden,) South of the chancel is a chantry 

 chapel: of which nothing appears to be known. [Modern 

 Wilts, Dunworth and Cawden, p. 77.] 



Fuggleston. St. Giles's Hospital, near Wilton. Some fragments 

 of old masonry in the walls of a cottage on the right hand 

 side of the road, mark the site of this ancient building. In 

 37 Hen. VIII. 1545-6, there was a chapel covered with lead : 

 and John Dowse, clerk, was Master. Its lands were worth 

 £5 13s. 4d. a year. Four poor persons were relieved. The 

 Crown Commissioners in 1 Edw. VI., mark in the margin of 

 their Report, " Thys to contynewe." The particulars, and an 

 engraving of the seal, are given in Branch and Dole, p. 130. 

 Aubrey [Nat. Hist, of Wilts, p. 73], says " there was this 

 inscription over the chapel door. 1624. This hospitall of 

 St. Giles was re-edified by John Towgood, Maior of Wilton, 

 and his brethren, adopted patrons thereof, by the gift of Queen 

 Adelicia, wife unto King Henry the First. This Adelicia was 

 a Leper. She had a windowe and dore from her lodgeing into 

 the chancell of the chapell, whence she heard prayer. She 

 lieth buried under a plain marble gravestone : the brasse 

 whereof (the figure and inscription) was remaining about 

 1684. Poore people told me that the faire was anciently kept 

 here." 



Joseph Gibbs, an old inhabitant of Quedhampton, wrote 



