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Marton, (South Damerham Hundred,) formerly called Merton. "A 

 little chapel at Merton in the Earl of Shaftesbury's house, is 

 paved with tiles, whereon are annealed or enamelled the coate 

 and quarterings of Horsey." [Aubrey, Nat. Hist, of Wilts, 

 p. 101.] 



Mere, (Hundred of Mere.) The chancel of the parish church 

 stands between two chantry chapels. That on the north side 

 was founded in honour of the Annunciation of the Blessed 

 Virgin Mary, A.D. 1324, by John de Mere : and was further 

 endowed in 1484 by the Stourton family : that on the south 

 side was founded by John de Bettesthorne, Lord of Chaden- 

 wych, in this parish. These were afterwards called " For- 

 ward's " and Berkeley's " Chantries. The map of the Yalor 

 Eccles., mentions three chantries in Mere church : and that 

 record itself says they were all of the foundation of John 

 Berkeley, Kt. In a curious Latin list of the property belong- 

 ing to one of these chantries, printed in Sir R. C. Hoare's 

 Mere, p. 144, the chaplain's dresses are described as worked 

 with figures of " white birds, griffin's heads, fleurs de lis : " 

 and various coats of arms, lions, peacocks, &c. See also Kite's 

 Wilts Brasses, p. 23. 



The Register of Bishop Osmund, who died A.D. 1099, 

 mentions two chapels in the parish. One at Seles (now Zeal's) 

 dedicated to St. Martin: the other at Chandeswic (Chaden- 

 wyc he) of the same dedication: with a service in each thrice 

 a week. [Modern Wilts, Mere, p. 142.] 



Merton. See Marton, supra. Also " Marston." 



Monkton Farley Priory. (Hundred of Bradford.) A house of 

 Clugniac Monks of the Order of St. Benedict, founded about 

 A.D., 1125, by Humphrey de Bohun. Subordinate to Lewes 

 Priory in Sussex. Of the conventual church, nothing remains. 

 Its site was excavated in 1744, and certain discoveries were 

 made, a description of which is given in the Wilts Arch. 

 Mag. iv., p. 281. 



Monkton, in the Deanery of Avebury, (Selkley Hundred.) " Chapel 

 to Overton, destructa " [Ecton.]. In the Yalor Eccles., Wilts, 



