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Ancient Chapels, 8fc. } in Co. Wilts. 



pilgrims, like Chapel Playster, or Dunley, mentioned above. 

 No traces of it are left. 

 Grafton, East. See Bedwyn, Great. 



Hame. The name of a chapel, printed on the map of the Yalor 

 Eccles., close to Tisbury in South Wilts, is evidently a mis- 

 take for Hatch in that parish. 



Hardenhuish, near Chippenham. The old parish church, taken 

 down about 1778, stood near some high elm trees, about two 

 hundred yards in front of the present mansion house. The 

 old manor house was close to the church. 



Haselbury, in the parish of Box (Hundred of Chippenham.) 

 There was formerly a parish church, dedicated to All Saints, 

 which stood, as it is said, near the present Haselbury farm- 

 house, once the manor house of the Spekes. After its des- 

 truction, which took place before 1760, it was customary for 

 a new Rector, on induction, to read prayers in a room in the 

 old house, and to have a portion of mould given into his hand 

 in a ground called the burying place. Stone coffins have been 

 found here. [See Wiltshire Collections, p. 59.] Haselbury 

 is named as a Rectory in the Yalor Eccles., and in the Sarum 

 Registers the presentations are regularly entered from A.D. 

 i-346. The Prior of Bradenstoke was patron : and it is some- 

 times called " Haselbury Chapel," sometimes " Rectory." 

 There is still a Rector, (beneficed and resident elsewhere,) but 

 here he has neither church, rectory-house, nor parish (save 

 one farm house), Haselbury being now merged in Box. The 

 duty consists in receiving £10 a year from the owner of 

 Haselbury, and keeping the roof of the chapel in repair. 

 Drayton [Polyolbion, Song xxiv.] speaking of hermits, seems 

 to have had this place (or perhaps Chapel Playster which is 

 close to it) in his thoughts in the following lines : — 

 11 So Wiltshire with the rest her Hermit Ulfrick hath 

 Related for a Saint, so famous in the Faith, 

 That sundry ages since, his Cell have sought to find 

 At Hasselbury, who had his Obiits him assign'd." 



But Ulfrick's Haselborough was in Somersetshire. See 

 Collinson's Somerset, i., 331. 



