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Ancient Chapels, 8fc., in Co. Wilts. 



house. There was never any kind of monastery in Seagry 

 itself: but an estate and farm-house in it belonged to the 

 neighbouring Priory of Bradenstoke. 

 Selk, in Mildenhall parish, (Selkley Hundred.) Here was a 

 " Yicarage " formerly belonging to the Knights Templars : 

 and a chapel, long since destroyed. [Ecton, Bacon's Liber 

 Regis, and Waylen's Marlb., p. 23.] It is supposed to have 

 stood in Mildenhall Woodlands. In 1585 there was a wood 

 here, belonging to the Hungerford family, called " St. John's 

 Throp.'" 



Sevenhampton, near Highworth. A chapel of St. James is men- 

 tioned in which was a chantry founded by the Warnford 

 family, about A.D. 1393. See Wilts Collections, p. 158, and 

 appendix, No. xxxviii. The present chapel bears the dedica- 

 tion of St. Andrew. 



Shalbourne, near Hungerford, (Kinwardston Hundred.) "St. 

 Margaret's Chapel : cum cura, Michael Topping cantarist and 

 curate," 1534. [Yalor Eccles.] The Commissioners in 1 Edw. 

 VI., report " a chapell with cure at Shalborne Westcourte, 

 Edward Blackall, aged 60 years, Incumbent. Clear yearly 

 value £4. He was pensioned with £3 13s. 9d." They add, 

 " Mem. There be dy vers old recordes which testify the said 

 Chappell to be a Parishe Churche : and it is used as a Parishe 

 Churche, but the very parish Churche is but a myle distant 

 from the Chappell." [Augm. Office.] 



In the Bishop's Registry, Sarum, there is one presentation 

 only. "1399. Chantry of St. Margaret of Shalborne. 

 Patron, Wm. de Vedast, Prior of Okeborn, Prebendary of 

 Okeborn : on behalf of the Abbot of Bee Herlewyn. Richard 

 Hyote of Easton Grey was presented, exchanging with Ralph 

 Polhampton." There is a ruined chapel still existing. 



Shaw, near Melksham, (Hundred of Melksham.) St. Leonard's 

 Chapel (destroyed). So early as 29 Edw. III. (1355), the 

 Dean and Canons of Sarum were bound to provide a Priest to 

 say mass in this chapel for the deceased lords of the manor 

 of Castle Combe. In the Court Rolls of Castle Combe, 1454 



