By the Rev, J. E. Jackson. 



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In 1 Edw. VI. there was only one chantry priest, Robert 

 Whittacre, aged 42 years. The Commissioners reported him 

 as " a very honest pore man and well able to serve a cure, 

 who hath aliwaies kept a Free schole in Trobridge and yett 

 doth for the inducement of children. There was no preeste 

 beside the Vicar to helpe in admynistracion saving the said 

 chantre preest : wherefore the inhabytants there desire the 

 Ring's most honourable counsell to consider them accordinglie." 

 The almshouse charity continued till 1777, when it was lost. 

 The house being in ruins was taken down in 1811. [See 

 Wilts Arch. Mag., i., 150, and x., 240.] 



TJpavon. (Hundred of Swanborough), near Pewsey. Here was 

 an alien Priory of Benedict Monks, being a cell, or house 

 subordinate to St. Wandragesille's Abbey at Fontanelle in the 

 diocese of Rouen. How many brethren occupied the Upavon 

 Cell, and whether they had any church or chapel of their own 

 apart from the parish church, is not known. The property 

 belonging to the cell was transferred, 1 Hen. VI. to the 

 monastery of Ivy Church, near Salisbury. 



Upton Scudamore. This chantry appears to have been founded 

 in the north aisle of Upton Church about 5 Edw. L, 1272-3, 

 by Sir Peter Scudamore, who with his wife Margery, was 

 buried in it. He endowed it with a house and forty acres of 

 land : mass to be celebrated every day, and the house and 

 chantry to be kept in repair. In 25 Edw. III. (1349), Sir 

 "Walter Scudamore granted to Robert de Bourguyn, chaplain, 

 for daily mass in the same, a tenement called the " Dryehay," 

 and 42 acres of land in Warminster: also feeding for 6 

 beasts, 6 pigs and 60 sheep, going on the downs and fields, 

 with certain rents of tenements. Mass, "per notam" every 

 Saturday. On Sunday, " De Trinitate ; " Monday, " De Sto 

 Spiritu ; " Friday, " Sancta cruce." 



This chantry endowment does not appear in the list of con- 

 fiscations, 1 Edw. VI. It had been previously disposed of. 

 In 1442, Walter Lord Hungerford, E.G. obtained leave to 

 unite it with another at Calne, and a chapel at Gorton in 



