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Ancient Chapels, fyc, in Co. Wilts. 



Langford Parva, (Branch and Dole.) A chantry wa8 founded on 

 the south side of the church, about A.D., 1325, by John of 

 Langford, and endowed with lands given to the Prior of St. 

 John's, Wilton, to find one chaplain to pray for the souls of 

 the founder and his wife Agnes. The Jacobean altar tomb 

 now within it, with the letters J. H., erroneously attributed to 

 the Hungerfords, is that of John Hayter who married Melior 

 Marvyn of Pertwood. In 1457 and 1502, the chantry belonged 

 to the Stourton family. They had lands in this parish called 

 Langford Dennis. On the north porch is a shield of Stourton 

 impaling Dennis, and over it, the old Stourton crest, the sledge, 

 or fire-dray. 



Langley. See Kington Langley. 



Laverstock, near Salisbury. (Alderbury Hundred.) The will of 

 Sir Hugh Cheney of Laverstock, dated 1385, directs the 

 foundation of a chantry in the church there, with daily service 

 for the souls of himself and Joan his wife, for the maintenance 

 of which he bequeathed a messuage and shops in the "Poletria" 1 

 in New Sarum. [Mod. Wilts, Alderbury, 215.] 



Lavington, East: alias, Market, Staple, Chipping or Forum. 

 (Swanborough Hundred.) A chantry in the church, worth 

 £5 15s. 8d., a year, Thomas Webbe, cantarist, is named in 

 the Yalor Eccles., A.D., 1534. It paid 6s. a year to the Abbot 

 of Westminster, and 8s. to Edington Priory, which was Rector 

 here, and patron of the Yicarage. The founder was most 

 likely Robert Delamere, Kt., A.D., 1349. [Wilts Instit., 

 Staple Lavington.] It belonged afterwards to Beauchamp, 

 Lord St. Amand ; and to the Baynton family. William, Lord 

 St. Amand, who died in March, 1457-8, desired by will to be 

 buried "in the chapel of the Saints Mary, Katuerine, and 

 Margaret." [Kite's Wilts Brasses, p. 37.] 



Lavington, West, or Bishop's. (Hundred of Potterne and 

 Cannings.) The " Beckett Aisle," as it is called, a small 



1 Hence what is called the "Poultry Cross." "Poletria," however, is not 

 Latin for domestic fowls. It is a mediaeval word in Ducange for a drove of 

 young horses. 



