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hym for and to his exhibition to the schoole. Continuateth 
to the schoole guousque with the accustomed wages.” [Aug. 
Office. | See also Salisbury, in/rd. 
At Fisherton was also a “Hermitage:” (similar to that 
described under Codford St. Mary, suprd.) In the register of 
Bishop Chandler at Sarum, of the date of 1418, Sir R. C. 
Hoare found a curious document relating to it; the Latin 
original of which he has printed in his history of this parish. 
[Branch and Dole, p. 161.] This document was a Commission 
of inquiry previous to a License being granted to the can- 
didate. The actual place of abode appears to have been a 
nook of the church itself. The substance of the document 
in English, is as follows :— 
“John (Chandler) Bishop of Sarum, &c. To Godfrey 
Crukadan and Sir Nicholas Godwyn, Canons of our church, 
greeting. Whereas our beloved in Christ, Joun, Hermit, of 
the Hermitage of Fisherton near Sarum, hath prayed us that 
we would allow him, being desirous by a life of continence and 
chastity to attain to a better life, to be shut up in a narrow 
place of hermitage at the end of the chapel of Fisherton, and 
there serve God: we, knowing the nature of human frailty, 
and that the Devil, the enemy of mankind, often causes the 
pious resolution of a moment to be followed up by regret: but 
not knowing the said petitioner nor the circumstances of the 
said chapel and hermitage, nor how far we may be interfering 
with the rights of owners and parishioners, &c., command you 
to make inquiry into these things: whether the said John is 
of good life and conversation: whether he is likely to follow 
up his vow: whether he was ever betrothed or married : 
whether any damage would be done to owners or parishioners, 
by the shutting up of the said John. Let inquiry be made 
_ on the oath both of clerks and laymen. Then, should no im- 
‘pediment be found why the said John should not be shut up 
as he desires, let him be so shut up as he wishes in the place 
aforesaid ; bestow on him a blessing ; do whatever else is right 
and proper, and report the sane to us.” 
