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Ancient Chapels, fyc, in Co. Wilts. 



p. 131, it is called "the Free Chapel of Monkenton, Richard 

 Betelle (Bethel) Rector: worth £4 a year." There are no 

 Institutions in the Bishop's Registry at Sarum. Bacon's 

 Liber Regis describes it as a " Chapel, alias V." (Yicarage). 

 Both ( Winterbourne) Monkton Yicarage and Free Chapel, are 

 marked on the map of the Valor Eccles. In 1 Edw. VI., 

 Thomas Gymlette, alias Barbor, aged 40 years, was Incumbent : 

 and the clear yearly value £6 8s. [Augm. Off.] 

 Moore Abbeston. See Whiteparish, infra. 



Norridge, parish of Warminster. A Free Chapel, or " Rectory," 

 dedicated to St. Michael. The presentations run from A.D. 

 1313, to 1490. Sir John de Cormayles was the first patron : 

 then the Gascelyn family : then Lye of Flambardeston. In 

 June, 1531 (23 Hen. VIII.), a lease for twenty years was 

 granted to Richard Hill, of the " Chapel covered with tyle, 

 with zb\ acres of land, and the tythe of 39 acres and more, 

 in Warminster, Upton and Norridge." In 1. Edw. VI., 

 William Hill, aged 50 years, was Incumbent : and the clear 

 yearly value was £2 13s. It had a Bell, value 6s. Mr. Hill 

 was "a well learned man, right able to serve a cure, and had 

 none other lyving, savynge one lytell benefyce in Wyltes, of 

 the yerely value of £8." (This was probably Grittleton 

 Rectory, near Chippenham.) Norridge Chapel is marked on 

 the map of the Valor Eccles., 1534. It is now destroyed. 

 (For information, see Sir R. C. Hoare's Warminster, pp. 

 67, 95, 107.) 



Norton Bavent. Hundred of Warminster.) On the south side 

 of the church is a chapel, supposed to have been built by 

 John Benett, who was buried in the middle of it in 1461. 



Oaksey. Hundred of Malmesbury.) Aubrey, (1670) says, "In a 

 close adjoyning to the church-yard, are yet to be seen the 

 ruins of an old seat of the Duke of Lancaster's, and a chapell. 

 It is now called Court, and Chapell Close." [Wilts Collec- 

 tions, p. 276.] On the map of Sarum diocese, in the Valor 

 Eccles., the chapel is marked, and in the accounts of Malmes- 

 bury Abbey, (Valor Eccles., p. 122.) the income of the chapel 



