130 Curious Endowment of a Chantry at Enford. 



the chantry at Enford differed from all these, and yet from the 

 value of the endowment and the amount of the plate belonging to 

 this chantry it was quite as good as most of the chantries in this 

 diocese, which were generally worth about £6 or £7 a-year. 



In the " Certificate of Colleges and Chantries for Wilts, No. 58," which is 

 " The Report of the Surveye off all Collegs, Chauntries, ffree Chappells, Frater- 

 nytees, Brotherhoddis, Stypendaryees, Ohbitts, Lyghts, Lampes, and Anni- 

 usaryes," taken by John Thynne and Willm. Wroughton, Knyghtes ; Charles 

 Bulkeley, John Barwicke, and Thomas Chafynne, Esquyers ; Willm. Thornhyll 

 and Lawrence Hyde, Gentylmen;" acting under the King's Commission, bearing 

 date the 14th day of February, 2 Edward VI. 1 there is the following entry: — 

 " 26 Westeleys Chuntre \ John Westeley, decessid, gave one thousand shepe to 

 at Enforde Richard I fynde a preste to synge at Endfordefor ever. Ofwhiche 

 Morres of the age of I m 1 - shepe dyed Dciiij xx - xij wherupon one pson Burde 

 lij yeres Incumbent. J gave itlxxviij shepe toward the increase of the sayd 

 stocke whiche be nowe Dccciiij xx -vj p%ed at xvj d - the pes, and so letten to diuse 

 (divers) men for the yerely rent of yip- xiiij s - vj d - 



' ' The plate belongynge unto the sayd Chuntre — xxx onz. j quarters. 

 "The goodis and ornamentis belongynge unto the sayd Chuntre pised at — 

 xxij d - 



' ' And the sayd Incumbent is a vereye honeste poore man and hathe none 

 other lyvinge but only this Chuntre and a man ryght able to Ssue (serve) a 

 cure, and hath alwayes occupyed hymselfe in teachynge of children there." 



The rent of the flock seems to be strange in amount as it does 

 not come to any even sum per score. 



There is no notice of this chantry in Sir R. C. Hoare's account 

 of the Parish of Enford. [See History of the Hundred of Elstub 

 and Everley, page 19 — 23]. A John Westley was Vicar of Enford 

 from a.d. 1472 to 1494. 



F. A. Carrington. 



1 This certificate is in the Public Record Office, in the Carlton Ride, London. 



