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union gave to Farley, all that was anciently included under 

 the name of Rowley, alias Wittenham. 



Rudlow, (parish of Box.) At Rudlow Firs, on the top of a hill 

 on the high road from Bath to Corsham, about seven miles 

 from Bath, there is at the entrance of Hartham Park, a park 

 lodge, which I have been told by villagers on the spot, was 

 made up about 1820, out of a " chapel " that once belonged to 

 some manor house at Rudlow. But no authentic record of 

 any such " chapel " has ever been met with. 



St. Mary de Rupe. Mr. Britton in his Beauties of Wilts, vol. iii., 

 p. 382, gives from Stow a Cluniac monastery of this title as 

 in Wilts. The great Cistercian Abbey of St. Mary de Rupe, 

 or Roche, was in Yorkshire. Nothing has been met with 

 about any house of this name in Wilts. 



Sarum, Old. The following titles and descriptions are met with, 

 of ecclesiastical buildings, in or attached to the fortress, at 

 various times. 



A.D. 720, church of St. James. Named in a charter of 

 King Ina. [Letwych's Antiq. Sarisb. p. 11.] 



Chapel of the Virgin Mary : " long maintained in some part 

 of the fortress, and apparently of older foundation than Bishop 

 Osmund's Cathedral there." [Hatcher's Salisbury, p. 709.] 

 Price quotes a charter of Ethelburga, Queen of Ina, granting 

 lands to " the Nuns of St. Mary in Sarisbyrig ; " and another 

 of Editha, widow of King Edward, to the " Canons of St. 

 Mary in Sarum." [Account of old Sarum, p. 42.] 



A.D. 1092. The Cathedral of Old Sarum, confiscated by 

 Bishop Osmund : of which " Our Lady's Chapel " was still 

 standing and maintained at Leland's visit, c. 1540. 



Church of the Holy Rood : called in the reign of Edw. II. 

 " the Chapel of the Holy Cross." [Hatcher, p. 741.] 



" Parish Church " of St. Peter. Several Incumbents are 

 named in the Wilts Institutions from 1298 to 1412. [Hatcher, 

 p. 709.] Perhaps this was the "other church" of which 

 Leland saw " some token visible near the east gate," in 1540. A 

 charter about the Rector's privileges is given in Hatcher, p. 741. 



