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Westbury. (Hundred of ditto,) Annexed to, or partly built in 

 with the main body of Westbury Church, are Jive additions: 

 bearing the traditional names of five families as the 

 respective builders : but owing to the absence of distinct 

 record either of endowment or description of site, it is not easy 

 now to identify each of them with certainty. 

 North side. 1. On the north side of the chancel is the (so called) 

 Mauduit Chapel. The Mauduit family were of great importance 

 in this neighbourhood as lords of the adjoining manor of 

 Warminster, till about the beginning of Rich. II., when they 

 were succeeded by Sir Henry Greene of Drayton, co. North- 

 ampton, who married their heiress. In Westbury, Leigh and 

 Bratton, they also had considerable property, and in A.D. 

 1332 "the advowson of the chapel of the manor." [Sir 

 R. C. Hoare's Westbury, p. 79.] In 1341, a William of 

 Grimstead, lessee of Mauduit's manor, endowed a chaplain in 

 Westbury with six marks: and in 1406 (8 Hen. IV.), Ralph 

 Greene, son of Sir Henry, renewed a long lease of " Mauduit's 

 Manor," and of " the Advowson of the Chapel " to William 

 Westbury, Justice of the Common Pleas. [Sir R. C. Hoare's 

 Warminster, p. 8.] What is meant in these authorities by 

 the "advowson of the chapel of Mauduit's manor" is a little 

 perplexing. There is, on the one hand, no mention or tra- 

 dition, of any distinct building, standing within the limits of 

 the lands called Mauduit's. On the other, there is no record 

 of any endowment by the Mauduits themselves, of any chapel 

 within the parish church. Yet without such endowment of 

 land or tithe, the mere nomination of a chaplain to celebrate 

 mass in a part of the parish church, would hardly have been 

 called an " Advowson of the chapel of Mauduit's manor." 

 The name of " Mauduit's " is at present usually given to this 

 north appendage to the chancel : but John Aubrey (1650) 

 did not so call it. His story, on the contrary, is that it was 

 " built by Two maids of Brook " (i.e. Brooke House in West- 

 bury.) The " Two maids of Brook " would fairly be the two 

 sisters, coheiresses of the Pavely family, owners in former 



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