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two shillings and sixpence of annual rents, 17| acres of arable, 

 and 1 of pasture, in Pensdon, Winterwell, Flexlegh, Elridge, 

 &c. [Brit. Mus. Add. Charter, No. 1533.] In 1346, John 

 de Peyton, in right of his wife (a Bluet), obtained a license for 

 a private chapel in his manor of Lackham [Wyvil Register, 

 Sarum]. The following names of Chaplains occur in the 

 Wilts Institutions: — 1349, Stephen Draper; 1352, Walter 

 Fynamour ; 1410, William Hunte : the last having been 

 presented by Philip Baynard, then Lord of the Manor. The 

 site of the chapel is not known. In the wall of a building 

 behind Sir John Awdry's house at Notton, are inserted some 

 stones traditionally said to have been brought from it. On 

 one of them is a cross. Another has the arms of Bluet and 

 Baynard. 



Lacock Abbey, (Hundred of Chippenham.) "Locus Beatae 

 Marias," was the name appointed by the foundress Ela (D* 

 Eureux), Countess Dowager of Salisbury, widow of William 

 Longespee the First, A.D. 1232. It was dedicated to St. 

 Mary. 



The Nuns, eighteen in number, were of the Order of St. 

 Augustine. It was sold at the Dissolution to Sir William 

 Sharington, who converted the monastic buildings into a 

 residence. The cloistered quadrangle and other portions still 

 remain, but the conventual chapel is destroyed : the north 

 wall of it still forming the south front of the house. Three 

 Priests daily officiating, and a Father confessor are mentioned 

 in the Yalor Eccles., as the clerical staff of the convent. 

 Lake, in Wilsford parish, near Ambresbury, (but in Underditch 

 Hundred.) The first gift to Bradenstoke Priory by Walter 

 of Salisbury its founder (Will. I.,) included the " Capella de 

 Lacha," with all its appurtenances, and one Richard Cotele 

 also gave a virgate of land in "Lacha." At the Dissolution 

 the lands and tythes belonging to the chapel of Lake were 

 leased by the Crown to Richard South of Ambresbury : were 

 afterwards granted to the Partridge family, and in 1599, were 

 purchased by George Duke. [R. C. Hoare, Underditch, p. 137.] 



