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Ramsbury, (Hundred of Ditto.) The Darell aisle, eastward from 

 the north aisle of Ramsbury church, was a chapel dedicated 

 to the B. Y. M., built early in the 15th century, probably by 

 the family of Calston then owners of Littlecote. Thomas 

 Halle was cantarist in 1534 : and the annual value £8 2s. Sir 

 Edward Darell (mentioned above under Littlecote,) desired, 

 by will A.D. 1528, to be buried in this chapel. His executrix 

 "to burn a taper of wax before the Rood during Divine 

 service for 3 years, and further and longer as his goods 

 and profits of his land will extend." He also desires marble 

 stones with brasses for some of his family. An account of 

 the aisle and of the Darell monuments is given in Wilts 

 Arch. Mag iv., 224. Ramsbury chantry is named in Ecton's 

 Thesaurus. [See Kite's Wilts Brasses, p. 11 : also Axford, 

 supra. 



Rockley, or Temple Rockley, [Selkley Hundred]. In the parish 

 of Ogbourne St. Andrew's, near Marlborough. John Mares- 

 chall gave lands and established here a Preceptory of Knights 

 Templars, 2 Hen. II. (A.D. 1156) ; which was afterwards 

 given to the Knights Hospitalers of St. John of Jerusalem. 

 As the Templars, wherever settled, usually had a chapel ; (as 

 for instance at Selk, which see infra, near Marlborough,) it is 

 very likely that they also had one here, at or near the place 

 now called Temple Farm. Rockley is miscalled Rohee in 

 Ecton and Bacon. [See above, Ogbourne St. Andrew.] 



Rood Ashton, (Whorwellsdown Hundred.) The word "Rode," 

 signifies in Anglo-Saxon, a "Crucifix :" i.e. a cross with the 

 image of our Saviour upon it ; including also, when the Rode 

 was complete, the figures of Mary and St. John at foot. 

 When inside a church this group was placed over a screen at 

 the entrance of the chancel : when outside, in a niche, or over 

 the porch, or sometimes on a separate shaft in the church- 

 yard, or even in a village. Places have sometimes taken their 

 name from this feature : as Holy Rood in Edinburgh, Rode 

 Huish in co. Somerset, and others. The manor of Ashton 

 having been anciently property of Shaftesbury Abbey, it is 



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