322 Ancient Chapels, fyc., in Co. Wilts. 



is described as tithes on " Barley's and Hussey's lands." 

 There used to be anciently a place in Wraxhall parish, called 

 " Berley's or Barley's Court," which belonged to the Hussey 

 family 1476, who succeeded to it by marriage with an heiress 

 of Blount of Cumberwell, Shockerwick and Bitton. Thomas 

 Blunt, who died 1447, had married the daughter and heiress 

 of Thomas Berlegh. The family of Berlegh had lands at 

 Bath Hampton, also about Bradford and Cumberwell, &c. As 

 Berlegh' s Court in Wraxhall provided part of the maintenance 

 of St. Audoen's Chapel, and the first chaplain on record pre- 

 sented by the Prior of Monkton Farley in 1323, bore the 

 name of Reginald de Berlee, there is just room for the sugges- 

 tion, that perhaps St. Andoen's may have been one and the 

 same as " Berlegh Chapel" the locality of which has long 

 perplexed Wiltshire topographers. [See Berlegh above : and 

 Wiltshire Collections, p. 26.] 



On the south side of the parish church is Long's Chapel, 

 which from having over the door, on the outside, the date of 

 1566, is said to have been built by Sir Robert Long, In the 

 interior, on each side of the east window, is a niche, and on 

 the right hand a piscina. This as Mr. Britton observes 

 [Beauties of Wilts, iii., 225] is a remarkable circumstance 

 if the chapel was altogether new after the Reformation. 

 There is no mention of any endowment. 



Yatton Keynes, or West. (Hundred of Chippenham.) This is 

 a hamlet in Yatton Keynell. John Aubrey, born within 2 

 miles of the place, is our only authority for a chapel here. 

 " Almost at the lower end of the conigere was the ruines of a 

 chapel till about 165 — . I think there was a Hermitage by it." 

 But no allusion to any chapel here has been met with in any 

 diocesan or public records. [See Wiltshire Collections, p. 123.] 



Yew Ridge. See Ewridge, supra. 



Zeal's, a tything of Mere. . (Hundred of Mere.) There was at 

 Zeal's a chapel dedicated to St. Martin, [Sir R. C. Hoare, 

 Mere, p. 13] with a chaplain. Bishop Osmund's Register, 

 Sarum, says that service was due there three times a week. 

 (Do. 143). J. E. J. 



