Curious Endowment of a Chantry at Enford. 



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and that there was a warren of nearly 1,000 acres more. And I 

 was told by the late Mr. Church of Hillwood, who died in the year 

 1852, at a very advanced age, that he recollected Aldbourne Chase 

 before the enclosure in 1805, when a great part of it was covered 

 with brambles, gorse, and thorn bushes, which grew up as high as 

 a man's shoulders ; so that persons with waggons, on horseback 

 and on foot, could only go along the drives that were cut through 

 this Wiltshire specimen of a jungle. 



Near the Lewisham Castle intrenchment some arrow-heads have 

 been found which are now in the possession of the Eev. E. Meyrick, 

 Vicar of Chisledon. 



F. A. Cakrington. 



Curimis (Ittlrattntmri nf a Cljimtrij at Mnrn, 



This chantry is remarkable from the singularity of its endow- 

 ment. Chantries were generally endowed with lands, houses, fixed 

 rents charged on lands or pensions ; though some of the priests of 

 the chantries were what were called " stipendaries," which seems 

 to import that the person who was bound to provide the chantry 

 priest was not bound to pay him any fixed sum, but had to pay 

 him whatever was agreed on between them. 1 The endowment of 



1 In the Parliamentary Survey of Livings in 1650 (a MS. in Lambeth Palace), 

 vol. xvi. there is the following entry as to the living of Ebbesborne, Wilts :— 

 " The Minister there is a Stipendiarie and to be pvided and paid his wages by 

 the lessee (of the great Tithes) as appeareth by his Covenant." 



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