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Ancient Chapck, tyc, in Co. Wilts. 



The chape] is not mentioned in the Valor Eccles., 1534. 

 Lokeswell, Lockswell, or Loxwcll, about four miles from Chippen- 

 ham, near Derry Hill, on the right hand of the road to 

 Devizes. Henry, Earl of Anjou (afterwards Hen. II.) gave 

 this place, then in the old forest of Chippenham, to the Monks 

 of Quarrer in the Isle of Wight, on condition of establishing 

 a house of Cistercians here, which they did in A.D. 1151, but 

 three years afterwards they were removed by the Empress 

 Maud, to Stanlegh in the vale below. Close to the present 

 farm-house of Lockswell, is a copious spring of water. The 

 ancient name of this spot was Drown Font, in Latin " Drogonis 

 Eons," the spring of Drogo, Chamberlain to the Empress 

 Maud. The original name may possibly have been " Loki's 

 well :" Loki was one of the deities of nature, always connected 

 by our remote ancestors with water. [Kemble Anglo-Saxons, 

 L, 378.] 



Longleat Priory, (Hundred of Heytesbury.) A small house of 

 Black Canons, dedicated to St. Radegund, founded, it is said 

 by Sir John Yernon of Horningsham, about A.D. 1270: after- 

 wards annexed to Henton Charter House Abbey, co. Somerset. 

 It stood upon the site of Longleat House. There was a chapel 

 of B. V. M., and altars to St. Cyriac and St. Juliana. Coffins 

 have been found. [See Wilts Arch. Mag. iii., 283. Sir K. C. 

 Hoare, Heytesbury, p. 55.] 



Maiden Bradley, (Hundred of Mere.) In the reign of Hen. II. 

 Manserus Biset, owner of Bradley, established a chapel for 

 leprous women, which was consecrated by Hubert, Bishop of 

 Sarum, on condition that it should in no wise interfere with 

 the rights of the church of All Saints at Bradley. This sub- 

 sequently became the chapel of Maiden Bradley Priory. 



A register of this Priory, unknown to the Editors of the 

 New Monasticon and to Bishop Tanner, was lately discovered 

 by me among the Marquis of Bath's documents, at Longleat. 

 It is of the years 1364 and 1365, but very illegible. Two 

 seals of the Priory are engraved in Gent. Mag. 1823, part i., 

 p. 305. A third is in my possession, appended to a deed of 



