DAUNTSEY, a parish in the hundred of MALMESBURY,
county of WILTS, 4 miles (S.E.) from Melmesbury,
containing 467 inhabitants. The living is a rectory,
in the archdeaconry and diocese of Salisbury, rated
in the king's books at £ 13.6.3. The Earl of Peterborough
was patron in 180,0. The church, dedicated to St. James,
contains a noble monument of white marble to the
memory of Henry Danvers, Baron Dauntsey, created
Earl of Danby in 1625; he founded here a free school
and an almshouse, and the Botanical Garden at Oxford.
There is a chapel of ease at Westend, in this parish.