20 6 Ancient Chapels, fyc, in Co. Wilts. 



to have been transferred thither on the dismantling of the 

 castle. See a drawing of it in Wilts Arch. Mag. III. 239. 

 In the parish churches were the following foundations : — 



1. In St. Peter's : lands worth £5 7s. 4d., for the maintenance 

 of a priest, called " Jesus Service.' ' 1 John Burdsey, aged 

 65 years, was last incumbent. 



2. Another chantry, founded 19. Hen. VII., (1503): "to 

 contynewe for 99 years." Lands worth £8 3s. 9d., a year. 

 John Pitts (or Potter) aged 44 years, was " stipendiary : " i.e. 

 (says the late Mr. F. A. Carrington) the heir of the founder 

 got a priest for as little money as he could. 



3. St. Katharine's Chantry is named in the Yalor Eccles., in 

 1534. In 1 Edw. YI. it was worth £8 13s. 8d. a year : part 

 of which was a rent of 20s. out of a tenement called the " An- 

 gel," belonging to Jeffry Daniell. Thomas Russell, aged 62 

 years, Incumbent. There were several obits in the church of 

 St. Peter. 



In St. Mary's Church : a chantry, worth £10 3s. 4d. a year, 

 founded by Foster and Pengryve. William Lewys, aged 60 

 years, the last Incumbent. Also another chantry, a Jesus 

 service, and several obits. [See Mr. Carrington's paper, 

 Wilts Arch. Mag. vii., 5.] 



Marston, near Highworth, (Hundred of High worth.) Bishop 

 Tanner [Notitia, p. 608] mentions a " Merton Hospital " in 

 Wilts, as occurring in a Plea of Assize, 54 Hen. III., wherein 

 " one David Bening and others were charged with unjustly 

 levelling a boundary in Chelworth. The jury found that his 

 predecessor had founded the Hospital of Merton, &c." Bishop 

 Tanner in a note, asks " whether this was not rather Merston 

 in Highworth Hundred, being nearest to Chelworth ? " 

 Nothing about any Religious House at any Marston in Wilts, 

 has been met with. 



Martin. See Bedwyn, Great, supra. 



x The "Jesus Psalter" consists of fifteen petitions, and the name of Jesus 

 being repeated ten times before each of them, the repetition is made one hundred 

 and fifty times. 



