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St. Giles's Hospital. This had a chapel covered with lead. The 

 clear annual value was £6, 1 Edw. VI. ; and John Dowse, 

 clerk, was Master. 



Black Friars are said to have been at Wilton. 

 St. Mary Magdalen's Hospital. A tradition of such a house 

 is mentioned by John Aubrey: but nothing has been dis- 

 covered about any such place. If it ever existed it was lost 

 before the Reformation. 



Wittenham. See Rowley, supra. 

 tt oodhill, or Woodhull, in parish of Clyff Pypard. In 1274 

 (3 Edw. I.), there was a chapel with Rectory, belonging to 

 the Prioress of Ambresbury. [Nonar. Inq., p. 162.] 



Wootton Basset, (Kingsbridge Hundred.) A Priory or Hospital 

 •of St. John Baptist, founded A.D. 1266, by the Despencer 

 family. The custos was instituted by the Bishop. United to 

 Bradenstoke Priory in Hen. IV. [See Wilts Collections, p. 

 203.] In Pope Nicholas's Taxation, A.D. 1391, the head Of 

 the house is called " Prior de Wotton in Bradenstoke." He 

 had at Quedhampton near Wotton, 10s. a year. 



Wraxhall, North. In this church was an endowed chantry, 

 with a chaplain ; originally founded (probably) by a Sir 

 Godfrey de Wrokeshale : and afterwards in the patronage of 

 successive lords of the manor. At the Confiscation, 1 Edw. 

 VI., the clear yearly value was 48s. 8d. The Incumbent then 

 was William Spencer, " a student in Oxford." The Wilts 

 Institutions speak of two chantries here, St. Mary's (1331), 

 and All Saints (A.D. 1390). The chaplains to both were in- 

 stituted by the Bishop. 



Wraxhall, South. In this parish, a few hundred yards from the 

 old manor house of the Longs, is a farm-house, which con- 

 tains some very good remains of a chapel. This was St. 

 Audoen's, or vulgo St. Tewen's. (St. Owen was a canonized 

 Bishop of Rouen, A.D. 683.) This chapel, with certain lands 

 and tithes, was purchased under the name of St. Tewen's, by 

 the Longs, in 1629, from Henry Thynne and Edmund Pike. 

 Part of the property belonging to the chapel of St. Tewen's, 



