FARLEY, a chapelry in the parish and hundred of
ALDERBURY, county of WILTS, 5 miles (E.) from Salis- .
bury, containing 229 inhabitants. This chapelry is
within the peculiar jurisdiction of the Treasurer in the
Cathedral Church of Salisbury. The chapel was rebuilt,
by Sir Stephen Fox, who was born liere in 1627; he
also founded, in 1678, an almshouse, and endowed it
with £ 188 per annum, arising out of the manor of Mannington,
for the support of a chaplain, or warden, six.
men, and six women; it is a plain brick building, form"
ing three sides of a quadrangle, the centre of which is
appropriated to the chaplain, who has, besides, the
charge of a free school, established by the same benevolent
individual.