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and 1460, orders are entered to the steward to see that this 

 service, which had been neglected, be duly performed. [P. 

 Scrope's History of Castle Combe, pp. 221, 249.] 

 Sherston Pinkney, or Parva, (Hundred of Chippenham.) Here 

 was anciently a Free Chapel, belonging to the hamlet (which 

 is now united with Sherston). The building has been long 

 destroyed, and the site forgotten. The names of several In- 

 cumbents are in the Sarum Eegistry, from A.D. 1300 to 1640. 

 [Wilts Instit.] They were presented by lords of the manor. 

 In 1 Edw. VI., when confiscated, Simon Shewer was Rector ; 

 and the clear value was 66s. 8d. a year. [See Wilts Collec- 

 tions, p. 110.] 



Smithcote, in Dauntesey parish, (Hundred of Malmesbury.] A 

 chapel of St. Anne, to which the Dauntesey family presented, 

 A.D. 1326-1443. [Wilts Instit.] The site is not known : 

 nor has any notice of endowment been met with. [Wilts 

 Collections, p. 217. See also Dauntesey, supra.'] 



Southwick, in the parish of North Bradley, (Whorwellsdown 

 Hundred.) Chapel of St. John the Baptist. There are two 

 documents in the Chartulary of Edingdon Priory, which seem 

 to prove clearly that there was a chapel at Southwick Court 

 (now a farm-house of Mr. Long's), about one mile from the 

 parish church. Before these documents can be rightly under- 

 stood, it is necessary to explain that originally, North Bradley 

 Rectory was considered as a " Chapel of the Prebend of Eding- 

 don," which Prebend belonged to Romsey Abbey in Hants. 

 But about 1354 this Prebend of Edingdon was detached from 

 Romsey Abbey, and appropriated to the foundation of Eding- 

 don Priory of Bonhommes, the head of which assumed the 

 title of Rector of Edingdon Priory. 



The first deed is of about A.D. 1294 : {before the foundation 

 of Edingdon Priory.) Its substance is as follows : — 



" A controversy having arisen between the Rector of Brad- 

 ley " (then Prebendary of Edingdon in Romsey Abbey) " and 

 Adam de Grenvyle" (then owner of Southwick), " about a 

 chantry chapel of the said Adam Grenvyle, in his court of 



